Quotes About Progress

I love first base. I want to get better.

We're really at this point where we can take a step back and think about the next big things that we want to do.

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.

As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.

Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."

Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That's how you'll get there.

The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.

It's good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure out how to keep moving forward.

In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the precipice!

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future as well.

I'm very focused on "Dexter" right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.

You know, I feel like if I don't change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.

I think when you first get a job, you're just trying to do what the last regime did, just to keep it going, as opposed to actually doing what you want to do.

People don't want to commit until they have clarity, but clarity comes with movement.

As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it is and, by the end of it, you just want to do something else.

If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?

There is this mysterious energy that wants us to keep growing.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

Hillary Clinton wants a better title, and I would, too, if I was already America's secretary of the status quo.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

When you start out in comedy, or probably in a lot of things, you want it to happen fast. You don't want to see yourself having to do this for seven years before you start to get some feedback.

I think people want to see change, want to see something new and Hillary Clinton is just not that person.