Quotes About Progress

I can't constantly live in the past, thinking that 'Oh my God, I was Miss Universe.'

And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT.

If we make a difference in Ohio, we can make a difference on a national scale.

I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories.

I am not against oil multinationals. What I am saying is that you end up going to them when you are not able to develop your own technology to extract oil.

There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.

We need to move away from oil, period.

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

With the areas which have no oil, the idea is to create industry and jobs.

As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

It's OK to make mistakes... Try different things.

Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.

I'm OK with making mistakes as long as I correct them and don't do it again.

I think it's great now that we seem to be in an era where it's OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society.

The enforcement is the flip side to the growth. And that's OK.

I always think that you finish one movie, you start a new one, and you think, 'OK. I did that last one. Now I've learned. I know how this works.' Then by the end of the movie, you think, 'No, I don't, really.'

The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess up sometimes. But it's not OK to mess up a movie; it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor. But film-making takes a little bit of risk in every department.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

When you try new things, you will make mistakes. That's OK.

I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.

It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'

Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare, all the rest, it's all fine, well and good, except it doesn't move you forward.

If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.