Quotes About Progress

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

Life is a work in progress.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

And every job that I had was a stepping stone to my next job and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more.

China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.

As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless - there is much to be done, and people need to work together.

Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.

It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

I believe that India is such a big country that one must do as much work as possible. So I keep doing that.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.