Quotes About Progress

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away.

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.

I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.

Going on twenty years, I've seen A-Rod getting better in different programs. He's one of the hardest-working guys there.

Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

I didn't even have a computer until I was twenty years old.

I think something that is never really spoken about is the learning process of making records - I made my first record at twenty one and learned so much about record making from that before making 'Bomb In A Birdcage' a couple of years later.

Kim and I have been friends for a long time. I've seen how things have played out behind the scenes. She's come a long way and she's a strong woman. The fact that she goes to Australia and twenty thousand people show up to a mall to see her is incredible. She's become an around the world phenomenon.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

Until your mid-twenties, you're still growing up mentally. It's fair to say there's a bigger difference between twenty and twenty-five than between twenty-five and forty in terms of who you are, how you relate to your work, and what you want out of it.

I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

I'm here to break boundaries, man. That's all. I'm here to be the first so that the people after me don't have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.

I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

I never make the same mistake twice. If you catch me slipping one time, good for you, but it ain't gonna happen again.

We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.