Quotes About Progress

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

When you start a script you aim to hit a note you know you want to end in general.

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.

Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done.

Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that.

In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be

But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to play as my career progressed. They were never a distraction.

My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in.

I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.

And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see.

We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.

I think the American people, you know, they're going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me.

As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point that is that so you move on.

A lot of people are afraid to succeed and don't want to fail but if you don't attempt, aren't you already failing in the same spot?

There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.

I'd like 'Morning News' to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the 'New York Times' will want to watch us.

I don't hate America. I love America. I want it to be better. The only way we can get it to be better is to realistically criticize what's wrong with it.

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." And that's a difficult part.