Quotes About Progress

Early in my career, I wasn't good in the strike zone early. I was good in the strike zone late, which is not a good thing.

I've got a philosophy I call 'no dancing in the end zone.' You score, get back, and run another play.

We have to start encouraging people to step out of their comfort zones and start doing new things. Anything anybody does new, there are a bunch of naysayers.

You go into another time zone when you are a parent of an autistic child, where any micro movement in a positive direction is such a cause for celebration.

England Women regularly play against Under-15 and U-17 county men's sides, which is great for the girls to take them out of their comfort zones. It's important to find a balance, though, because the way in which women's cricket is played is still very different.

You can't just be one of those guys where the whole league knows what you are and categorizes you as that and you accept that. I want to be one of those guys who expands his zone. Kind of like what Kawhi did.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

The best is the enemy of the good.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

How many 'coming men' has one known? Where on earth do they all go to?

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

The only way round is through.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.