Quotes About Progress

People always send me notes saying they'd love to be a speaker, but they could 'never speak as well as you do!' I'm like, 'Girl, of course you won't. You're just starting out... everyone stinks when they start!'

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol' peasant stock. My mother and her sister made a quantum leap out of that life. Then I made another quantum leap.

Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be.

And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.

I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.

Most of us look forward to the start of a new year as a clean slate. We reflect on the past 12 months, take stock of where we are, and make new resolutions about how to improve in the coming year.

What we'll do is at the beginning of every season we'll take stock of everything and decide we have enough stuff to keep going and whether we want to do it, and then we do it.

Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

When you leave a club like Liverpool, you have to go somewhere you'll feel comfortable and progress as a player. To come to Stoke was an easy decision.

If I were to leave Stoke, it would have to be a step up for me. Everything would have to be right.

When I came to Stoke, I expected them to be moving forward, every year getting better, but it's not been like this.

I've grown up a lot in England since I arrived at Stoke.

Coming to Stoke was a chance for me to develop and take my game to the next level.

Everybody wants things now. If I hadn't been given the time at Stoke, or at other clubs earlier in my career, I don't think I would have ever been successful.

I've got an awesome career happening, and I absolutely am so stoked with how it's all worked out.

In my 100th video, I gave a shout-out to the 78 subscribers I had at that point. And I was stoked at that point just to have that many who cared about what I had to say.

I'm stoked that the Olympics finally put skateboarding in there. I was always a little confused about why it wasn't in there in the first place considering that snowboarding and other similar sports were in the Olympics.

At the start of the band's career, I had ideas for songs and thoughts I figured out, but at the time I wasn't sure how to write music or to finish a song. So for me to have finished a whole album on my own is a huge feat. That would be impressive to 15-year-old me. I think he'd be stoked.

I was a lot smaller in high school, and guys were a lot bigger and faster than me. I stole some bases in high school, but it wasn't until my senior year that I started getting faster.

My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've been able to... stomach.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.