Quotes About Progress

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language.

In the beginning, I aspired just to make a comfortable living in acting. I still feel the same - it's just that my standards have gone up, so my comfort level is higher as well.

It's been a long time since we've been out there playing new material, and we have really enjoyed that. Of course we still enjoy playing the Yes standards as well, but it's great to have a bit of a challenge and pull off new material.

The greatest advancements in living standards over the past century have been coincident with affordable energy.

It's a good thing to remember that hiring will get easier as you scale - but you should also never drop your standards.

Growth is not an objective in itself; we should be concerned with standards of living.

We want to show all of our customers that the industry standards that we had been employing before - which are considered great standards - were not good enough.

My expectation levels are probably higher than what's achievable. But I have to keep pushing the standards.

My English isn't that good, maybe just 40 per cent fine by normal standards.

If you can keep getting better, we can set ourselves better standards every game.

At the start of every season, I always asked myself - am I meeting my own standards? Can I still do it? I didn't want to come to the conclusion that I couldn't during a season.

I think that, because I set such high standards for myself in my first season, it became an issue of me keeping up to those standards.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.

There is no such thing as standing still.

I'm a believer. I'm one of the few standing before you today from a large financial services company that has not given up on digital currencies.

Instead of going to a GLAAD event and standing on a soapbox, I am writing roles that I feel will change the narrative and open doors.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

One thing standing in the way of further progress for many men is the same obstacle that held women back for so long: overinvestment in their gender identity instead of their individual personhood.

Courage means standing next to someone you don't always agree with for the betterment of the country.

You have a Republican House, close numbers in the Senate, a Democratic president. If we're going to move forward at all as a country, we're going to have to do it by standing together.

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.