Quotes About Progress

I couldn't ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.

Hopefully my books are improving. One of the ways I find motivation to improve is looking at someone who is already at a high level and continues to get better with each book. That's really what you want to emulate.

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

I have ideas in mind, things that I'm working toward. There have to be goals; there has to be a challenge. Just playing, in and of itself, is great. But there has to be some motivation to it.

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

All of my career, I have been - how can I say this? - I have been through certain difficulties, and I have always tried to make it motivation to get better and better.

I know people know how good I am playing basketball... All I do is just use it as motivation: keep getting better, keep doing the same stuff and doing it even better.

I hope I represent a type of politics where we bring people together, where we inspire people - and we do it with this motivation of building a world that's better for everybody.

My motivation for tennis has been increasing every year.

Each milestone is always special. I always like to set certain things for myself and try to achieve them. It gives you that extra little motivation as the year goes on.

The more we do, the more we can do.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

I don't feel I'm in competition with anyone. My sense is of it being like school: I don't want to beat anyone but I don't want to get left behind. That's a great motivator. I like impressing my friends.

There's no recreating what Michael Jackson and Diana Ross did in 'The Wiz'. We're trying to figure out who these characters are in 2015. How would these times change their motives, change the things they would say and do?

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.

We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

I watch a lot of players. Guys like Kenneth Faried, his motor. I'm trying to take that and put that into my game.

My goal is for General Motors to lead in safe autonomous driving.

Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.

My father lost a lung in a chemical accident at General Motors, and after a while, he got a settlement that sort of changed all of our lives and moved us from, what we say, 'ashy to classy' in some aspects.

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.