Quotes About Progress

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.

The business model is both the starting point and the scorecard for Customer Development progress.

The past will always affect me, and I will keep that in mind while remembering that how it played out is only my starting point, not my final destination.

Obama's starting point was not as low as Manmohan Singh's starting point, and Obama's rise was not as sharp.

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

Every journey starts with fear.

Something is great when it starts low and rises to the heights. Or starts high and sinks low.

I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

Every league starts with homegrown players.

I wrote 'Black Deutschland' very quickly one summer, probably because I had a lot of it in pieces and fragments sitting around over the years as false starts or notes.

I'm finding myself increasingly attracted to literature that starts with pessimism as it's leading point and goes from there.

Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.

Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those.

Getting the job you want always starts with excelling at the one you have.

Everybody starts off in the same place going into sport; you don't go into any sport being good at it.

I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.

But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit, and other things intervene. Then I gain momentum.

Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.

When restaurants start to mature - and usually the five-year time is the time when the restaurant starts to settle in and have its own personality - your job is to grow it.

All I would say to people who doubt 'Caprica' is: Everything good starts slow.