Quotes About Progress

What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.

I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

Everyone wants answers and wants to know what the timeline is. Unfortunately, it's a complex situation, and we don't have the final answers yet.

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

Creative leadership impact increases in your 50's. When I turn 50 I want to say, "Nice start!"

The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself.

It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I walk. I want to learn about things before I jump into them.

Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.

There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.

I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now.

Wherever I am in the world I want to be creating new projects and innovations, which are exciting and make a difference to communities.

People can copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you still want to do.

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to leave for our kids.