Quotes About Progress

If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.

I've been thinking about 'The Jetsons' since I was a kid. But occasionally, you want 'The Jetsons' to come to reality. That's what Apple is so great at: Productizing things and bringing them to you so you can be a part of it.

Occasionally, as an actor, you're not... Sometimes, at least for me, I'm not fully in the groove until the second or third take, in which I would not want to just stop. If it's a scene that takes a lot of work and time, sometimes the scene gets better with time, and sometimes it gets exhausted. I think it just depends on the scene.

I'm not a great father and there have been many occasions, when I fall short, but I'm genuinely trying.

On some occasions, it is every footballer's dream to play for the national team, but if you don't reach it, you always need to work harder to reach a higher level, a level you wouldn't reach if you didn't have this as a goal.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

American's capacity for real estate improvement; build yourself a house, grow fat in it, and die.

I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood.

If men could move out of infancy at half a mile an hour and get up to eighteen thousand miles an hour in one lifetime, well, who was to assume that the walls of the universe were safe from future men?

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

You let everything stand until it's knocked over and then you go over and write your own ruins

When you start to open a door, the pressure has to be greatest in the beginning, yet the door moves the least.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

It seemed to him that he had been afraid all his life, but in recent years, or so it seemed, he had learned how to take a step into his fear, how to take the action which frightened him most (and so could free him the most). He did not do it always, who could? but he had come to think that the secret to growth was to be brave a little more than one was cowardly, simple as that, indeed

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14)

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

To go fast, row slowly.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

changes are so frightening.