Quotes About Progress

Sometimes we get so focused on the results that we miss doing it - we miss the adventure of being in the midst of something because we're looking too far ahead.

Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.

I started out as someone who could not run a mile straight. I called myself a 'run/walker.'

After '8 Mile' came out and blew up, the ball has been rolling ever since.

What I learned in 'Sons' is that I would come in with a blueprint of a season and how it would go, and I realized that the looser my grip was, the better it became because the story found itself. Things happened as I wanted them to in terms of the bigger mile markers, but the fun part was I never knew how we would get there.

Being on 'Grease: Live' was a massive mile marker. It ultimately led me to 'Hamilton.'

For 6 days a week I aim to get in between 18-23 miles.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

People ask how far I've gone in life. About 20 miles.

In coming to New York, I got my first Broadway show six months after I got here. So that song, 'Movin' Too Fast,' means so much to me, knowing that feeling where it's just where you imagined yourself, but it's flying by you at a million miles an hour.

My son going to college is a big milestone.

Every film has been a personal milestone for me.

Milestones aren't what I think about much.

We're not going to let anything get in our way of hitting our milestones and making history and showing the world that Hyperloop works.

There are different milestones in my career. Playing a festival at 16 was a milestone and I was really happy when I played my first show.

Our lives are a series of lowered expectations year after year. We got pounded by everything around us. Just like our parents and their parents. We are products of our social and economic milieu.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.

I'm a regular run-of-the mill guy learning on the way up, taking responsibility for his mess-ups.

Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.

Millennials are eager to make an impact, which makes them ideal for start-ups.

It's been with us for a millennium, and we'll still be carrying around cash for a long time to come. There'll just be less of it.