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Quotes About Progress

I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
~ Mick Jagger
I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.
~ Mitchell Baker
I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.
~ Moon Bloodgood
We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.
~ Nick Harkaway
A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want
~ Paul Taylor
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
~ Paulo Coelho
The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg, or its energy equivalent. Why wouldn't you?
~ Peter Diamandis
Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.
~ Peter Straub
I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.
~ Phil McGraw
No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.
~ Honor Blackman
What I've learned from sketch is you can get it as perfect as you want, and it's never going to be perfect.
~ Horatio Sanz
A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.
~ Irshad Manji
Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
~ Jeanne Moreau
Most people want their representatives to get something done.
~ Joe Lieberman
There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
~ John W. Gardner
As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly.
~ Justin Hayward
I have those (goals) written down, but don't want to discuss them. Right now, I just want to keep on improving.
~ Justin Leonard
Just make people better at something they want to be better at.
~ Kathy Sierra
When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!
~ Ken Hensley
There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future.
~ Mariano Rajoy
The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.
~ Mary Stewart
Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.
~ Michael Gira
A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now.
~ Mort Sahl