Quotes About Progress

It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.

Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect. But you might want to kick your own a## if you're not trying to get better.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.

By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.

I'm convinced that if the same opportunities were made available to everybody, people would want to better their lot in life.

At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn't really like Van Halen.

I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

I really think that Van Halen has two choices if they want to continue. And maybe they don't want to continue, because they don't seem to do much.

Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things.

I'm one year older, one year sexier - one more, baby. For me, it's all about the bigger picture. We want to win the whole thing. We've got to beat whoever is in our way.

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.

I was better at both ends, defensively and offensively, It was more of a well-rounded game. I want to add to that.

Consumers want a better world, not just better widgets.

Your personal style should evolve with age. To say you want the same style at 25 as at 45 is a mistake.

I am a patriot and I want to see this country [the USA] soar again.

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen

No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks.

So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.

We learn by making mistakes. If you genuinely want to have a multifaceted career that takes you into multiple industries, then I think you have to be willing to fail.