Quotes About Progress

Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

It occurred to me that my family had achieved the American Dream, from being poor to starting a business to giving me and my brother an amazing education. It's one reason I joined the Air Force, because I believed I can never give back to America what America has given to my family and me.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays.

Dave played an important part in our growing, but change occurs.

We think the fastest way to clean the ocean is to learn by doing.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America.

If you've followed us from when we started playing live in October 2010, you will notice that there has been numerous changes over the years.

It's odd to say we had our first African American president before our first African-American-owned movie studio, but we're making progress.

It's not odd to be a female in a band anymore. It's not odd to be a girl carrying a guitar case to a gig.

I think we have a long way to go in the entertainment industry, particularly in movies, but I feel like in television, there's somebody is finally saying, 'Hey, women have stories to tell, and oddly enough, women want to hear them.'

There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

When you're the lead, as I was in 'Offender,' you don't have to be perfect all the time; you've got time to get it right.

I feel like the more carries I get, the more flow I get and just keep it rolling with me and the whole offense.

I'm not worried about offense. I've always had that, but I can get better defensively and that in turn will make my offense better.

Every year, you try to evolve a little bit. You try to introduce new elements to your offense.

Offense, defense - on both ends of the floor - figuring that out. I'll keep watching the film and see where I can keep getting better.

But when it comes to things of the mind, things like coaching, game-planning, coming up with offensive and defensive schemes, there's no reason why a woman couldn't be in the mix and shouldn't be in the mix.