Quotes About Progress

I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.

No matter how many times you've done it, the early stages of getting a show up on its feet is very hit and miss. There seem to be thousands of options on every page to discover.

We went from playing small clubs to quite big stages quite quickly, and a lot of the time, I felt like I was trying to catch up with myself. Figuring out how to take up space was an interesting journey.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time. Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

I think I'm getting more and more experience playing on big stages, and I think that's going to help me with everything.

There are stages in life in which you have to bring things to a close because of motivation.

I was always smaller than the rest coming up at Coventry, and I developed physically more in the later stages.

There aren't any negative thoughts about my time in Detroit; I just didn't play. Sometimes you have to go through that at different stages. I went through it during a tough period, my first year in the league, but it was a good year for me off the court.

There are things that happen, at different times in your life. You go through natural changes in life, when you reach your 30s, mid-30s and 40s, and you go through these different stages.

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking.

I'm somebody who constantly wants to challenge himself, evolve, and grow. Because if you don't, you fade. You become stagnant.

For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.

I feel at times I get stagnant, and I don't want to.

It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

The moment you get comfortable is the moment you get stagnant, so I want to make sure I keep evolving.

You have to grow. I can't be the same person I was at 18; otherwise, I'd be stagnant.

You can never come into the spring feeling like you've got a guaranteed spot. Once you do that, you kind of get stagnant, and someone's going to pass you up.

If we can forgive, it will help us to grow and not remain stagnant in the same place. Then we can move on without animosity and hurt feelings.

Film can become stagnant as a medium.

People like things that change. They don't like stagnant things.

I feel like animation's stagnant. There's not much that's trying to push the artform, and so, for me, I'm way too critical about it.