Quotes About Progress

If you do your work, eventually there will be a spark. A fire. A blaze.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.

Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

You work for a long period of time and the results don't really show, but at some point everything just comes together and you start to play better, or get more confidence.

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.

Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.

Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future.

I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.

I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

Giger's work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.