Quotes About Progress

It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.

Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

You start at 'SNL' when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my 'SNL' years.

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.

I think I can fix the problems in Washington that people desperately want to see fixed.

Thank God I'm at that point in my career where I don't have to take stuff that I don't really want to do.

If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.

You've got to give up who you are now for who you want to be in the future.

I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

There are different parts of us. You want to feel safe but you want to also feel challenged.

Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.

You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get.

The main message of it is to not get stagnant and that God wants us to continue to grow and become a better person.

God always wants us to be growing.

In the future, I want to be consistent from Day 1. We're still making adjustments. I still believe that I can be better.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.

Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.

You can change your life if you really want to. You can improve it, make it better. And it all starts with changing the way you think.