Quotes About Progress

Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.

I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.

If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.

People want progress, but they don't want change.

One of the easiest ways to go green is to go small. I want to show people that there's an amazing modern green future, and make it easy for them to step into it.

You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but you want to get rid of the bathwater so the baby can swim the next couple of days and be OK.

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.

I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.

Success is something you attract by the person you become. If you want to have more, you must become more.

When God takes your straw, it isn't because he wants you to remain a slave. It's because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.

Honestly, I don't want to worry about the trivial feelings here. I have nothing and I still have a far way to go. There's no time for me to hesitate. The people around me force me to hesitate.

I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move.

Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.

I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles.

People don't want to feel stuck, they want to be able to change.

I've always wanted to direct and as I grow and I get older and I get older I just want to let that evolve.