Quotes About Progress

No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.

The future is destined only for tomorrow's work and today's thoughts.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

We've been like that all season. They're starting to have the vision I've been asking them to have for a while. Our settled, normal offense stuff, we need to work on that.

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.

I don't just work! I think about my work, reflect on my work and think of what changes can I make, how can I elevated my game.

I made a conscious effort that I just wanted to work with people that were going to make me better and that was the main thing - writers, directors, in whatever medium.

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.

Your work is to find healing. And I find, for me, it's a little bit at a time, and eventually it's barely there. And the journey is finding what works for you and doing it.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.