Quotes About Progress

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

You have to evolve. Stagnation breeds boredom.

Believe it or not, the biggest obstacle for a business owner with any size business is the internal response to the question - 'Now what?' Often this question is followed by a - deer in the headlights - response, which is then followed by stagnation. Following stagnation comes fear.

Everyone wants change. Donald is the only one that can deliver it. We should not be satisfied with stagnation.

The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.

If I can, I would like to do as many different roles in a year because then there is no stagnation. That used to happen when I played one role in a serial for years. When a show goes on for years and is delivering ratings, you didn't get the chance to take up other roles and shows.

There are moments of high mood, there are moments of low mood, there are moments of injury, there are moments of strength, there are moments of progress, there are moments of stagnation. All we can do is keep on pushing.

Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.

I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.

God didn't design an elevator for me. It's great because I'm climbing stairs and learning with every step.

I believe elitism in politics is over, and a new path to achieving democracy should be charted by young people who have the most at stake in the future of our city.

It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

We must stop looking to the past and focus on ensuring everyone has a stake in the future.

Once I moved to Chelsea I certainly felt the stakes had been raised and the training went to another level with a higher quality of players.

I'm always trying to make movies that are better than the ones that we've made before. We don't always succeed at doing that by any means, but we're always trying to raise the stakes, raise the bar, make the movies better, and that's hard.

I've found that entrepreneurship only gets harder every year, and as your team gets bigger, the stakes get higher.

Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

There is no definitive end to anybody's story when you're dealing with the fluidity of chemistry, because when it gets stale, you want out.

As long as there's a vision with the club, and we're not stale, we're going forward as a club.

We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.

We're professionals and we made a pact to each other when we created the show that if we ever felt it was getting stale or repetitious or not pushing the format in new and interesting ways, we would stop doing it.