Quotes About Progress

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.

At Yale we don't just want to make new things, we want to make things better.

What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.

Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

Utah is changing. There are good people in Utah. More people want to change the discriminatory laws than want to keep them. People should be able to marry whomever they love.

You need bad things to make good things. It's like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.

A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know.

Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.

Now, having seen the differences between where you are and where you want to be, begin to change-consciously change-your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision.

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

The industry needs transforming. It's for others to decide whether they want to get stuck in the past or whether they want to come on the journey.

I think people are very focused on the economic issues. They want an economy that works for everybody.

I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.

You might get an inspired thought or idea to help you move towards what you want faster.