Quotes About Progress

I've been in lots of situations in my life where I've managed to turn pain into growing pains.

It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.

I used to have a phone machine that you turn 'on' and 'off,' which was great. Now, it's so technological that it's like going down the rabbit hole.

Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.

I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.

We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place.

When you're in a turnaround situation, you cannot incrementalize your way out of it.

Americans are proud of this country. They want to see things get better, and they want to be part of that turnaround. That's what America Speaking Out is all about.

I knew nothing about nutrition until 1982. I had a big turnaround that year and never looked back.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

I always want to win, and it was time to win some club prizes, some titles. I never would have gone for the money, but wanted the chance to get a bit further in my career. And it turned out to be the right decision.

I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.