Quotes About Progress

You can't keep letting people live their happy little lives in oblivion. To move forward they have to be uncomfortable.

No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race, so it starts with Confederate flags. Get them out of here. They have no place for them.

I like to pace myself at about two minutes of music a day. With 'Waterworld' it was closer to five minutes a day, which is uncomfortable and slightly terrifying.

Don't talk to me about getting comfortable. It makes me uncomfortable.

You have to get uncomfortable to meet your goals.

I think toward the end of my run as an Emmy nominee, I started to dress better. At the beginning I was overdressed and uncomfortable.

I love to continue to evolve as a player, and sometimes the only places you can do that is when you're uncomfortable, and sometimes when you're at home for too long, it's not that.

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

Foul-ups in testing are not uncommon, especially when the test setup is being tried for the first time.

It's not an uncommon event for artists and labels to part ways - Patty Loveless, Vince Gill both did - and it often happens for the better.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

What has now become conventional in terms of digital marketing and the discovery of new talent was once very unconventional - and people forget that.

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.

In 2003, when I wrote the first 'Dhoom,' we were at the end of the curve of a certain kind of Hindi film, which was quite plastic. 'Dhoom' was unconventional then.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.

Time is undefeated.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

You can ride your bike to anywhere in Portland if you want to. I think there was a charming underdog mentality when I first moved here in the late '80s that is definitely gone. People acted more like underdogs, dressed more like underdogs.

I've always liked underdogs who started out not so iconic but then really took off.

What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress.

On the one hand, I set my goals high, but on the other I do not underestimate our competitors either, who are using all their resources to challenge us. However, I also see what a fantastic job Sauber is doing and the progress we are constantly making.