Quotes About Progress

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

I am not very good at sticking to outlines, and I double back all the time to revisit scenes and change things.

I like to leave things open, and even when I write out the story ahead of time, it always changes. I don't think I would finish anything if I was sticking to a plan that was very rigid.

I never plan to run at a certain pace. All my career my motto has been 'no limits.' I don't try to run with a set time in mind, sticking to set splits, because what happens if you're ahead of your splits - are you going to slow down?

I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think that's what we are doing. We are trying to make sure that the genie has friends, has food to eat, a way to grow.

Sooner or later, the headphone jack is going away. There are just too many reasons aligned against it sticking around any longer.

I used to throw a lot of stuff against the wall, just to see what ended up sticking; now I'm pretty much using everything that I create for a record.

Once you see the problems that algorithms can introduce, people can be quick to want to throw them away altogether and think the situation would be resolved by sticking to human decisions until the algorithms are better.

It is never helpful to point at sticking points, but it is always helpful to encourage one's partners to take a more active and forward-looking approach.

During my seven years and eight months as chief Cabinet secretary, I noticed that when policies are slow to move forward, it's usually because of bureaucrats' sectionalism and a penchant for sticking with precedents.

Every year, I make it my goal to learn something new, but I never end up sticking to it.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

We try lots of stuff. We throw it against the wall, and the stuff that sticks stays in the movie.

I will do everything I can... to make sure that Poland sticks to a development that fosters the rule of law, democracy.

I think I'm the last generation that remembers life before the smartphone. I'm going to be one of them old geezers going, 'You know, when I was a kid, we used to play with sticks.'

I am fine-tuning certain aspects of my game. Beforehand, I was guilty of doing a lot of my best work away from the goal. But now I am getting in between the sticks and putting the ball in the back of the net.

I remember playing that tennis game with the two sticks, 'Pong.' That was crazy when I first saw it. It's funny to think that 'Pong' blew me away since all it was was a ball going back and forth.

There's a bad thing that we have in America, and that is a slow, sticky way that we get out of prejudice. We get out of it very, very slowly. It's like walking through tar. But we're getting out; things are changing.

I'm a planner, an organizer. I write things down because you can visually check them off and see progress. Writing things down is a lost art. I've got sticky notes all over my apartment.

This journey of education and breaking stigma around HIV is something that will have a legacy everlasting.

There is a stigma attached to community colleges, and we do need to change the narrative.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

The stigma of the straight-to-DVD thing is over.