Quotes About Progress

I feel like I needed to grow up. I needed to grow up as a songwriter. I needed to grow up as a singer, a performer. I needed to grow up as a woman.

My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution.

I'm just getting back into my songwriting groove. It's still pretty early. But I don't want to make 'Hero 2.' It's going to be different.

Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward.

When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.

There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality.

Sony's Walkman far predated the iPod. Nokia ruled smartphones before Apple.

Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.

I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.

We will continue to renew and redefine Sony Pictures.

I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.

If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

People already have bionic arms and legs that work by the power of thought. And we increasingly outsource mental and communicative activities to computers. We are merging with our smartphones. Very soon, they will just be part of the body.

The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.

However, there is no assurance that we can produce world class players so soon. Only time can tell.

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

I mean, so hopefully soon there's enough women and enough people of colour and enough of every group out there that feels that they get the recognition they deserve, and then we don't have to talk about it anymore.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.