Quotes About Progress

No one went to the ballot box to vote for something worse than the status quo.

I'm never satisfied with status quo, and a desire to make a difference is what drives me.

Holding women to the idea of 'write what you know' subtly reinforces the status quo. Writing is a chance to celebrate who we are. But it's also a chance to celebrate who we could be.

Bad days don't always stay.

Keep at it, always be thinking about it, always be developing, always try to grow and learn more - and never stay in one place.

Of course you learn from certain moments, and you always get more and more experience, so maybe in the future you will do some different things, but in general, the basics always stay the same.

There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.

I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there.

I come from a lower-middle-class family and used to stay in a housing board colony.

You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there. They'd come out of high school, get a job, get married, have kids and die in Jersey. I wanted more.

I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.

I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.

I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.

It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

Who wants to live in a world where you can only stay in the lane of your birth?

The best career advice I've gotten is to stay focused, keep moving forward.

Aim higher. Stay focused.

I'm just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

I never really do the New Year's Resolution thing. I kind of just try to stay focused, not get too distracted, and do the best I can. And that's something I like to tell myself every year around New Year's.

Unless you stay focused on innovation, you can be disintermediated.

I need to stay focused and concentrate on the little things I need to do to improve my game.

We have a pretty tough schedule coming up. We have to stay strong mentally and must focus on getting better.