Quotes About Progress

Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to replace them.

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations - as was the case with NASA, the Apollo program, and the project that became the International Space Station.

Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

The building of the International Space Station is something wonderful, and it will show us how to take the next step beyond low-Earth orbit.

I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've arrived at success.' There's no question about it. Once you get to the point where you've arrived at a station called success, you get complacent and lethargic. Those goals you set keep changing. But it's not a ruthless sort of thing.

I think 'Sound of My Voice' was the first film where suddenly I could point to something I had done that I was proud of and say, 'Look at this piece of work.' And that's probably what led to 'Fruitvale Station,' which was the real break.

As a Southerner and as a Mormon you approach life in this aspirational way: 'I will rise above my station.'

When I first started at Sirius, I was the only woman on the whole station.

Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

I handed out flyers in malls, candies in gasoline stations; helped set up tarpaulins in bars. I played bit roles in several indie movies. Looking back, I can say it has definitely been a long journey.

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Fading are the days in which a cohort of towering power stations ran the game (and captured all the profits).

Someone once shared a statistic with me about how long it takes women to make their second films. On average, it's three years for men and eight years for women.

I think with challenges, you either overcome them or you fall behind and become a statistic.

Honestly, I've just been trying to improve all parts of my game, and a statistic is just a statistic.

Statistics are there to be broken.

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

If you look at my career statistics, it's not pretty.

I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it... it's just uncrafted, like a slab of rock that contains the statue of David within it.

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.