Quotes About Progress

You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.

In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for them to work.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.

Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work.

My father knew all about this stuff [C.W. Leadbeater]. I owe a lot of what I'm doing, I think, to him. I'm sort of continuing my father's work.

It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done.

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.

In business, as in life, all that matters is that you do something positive.

My life is just a never-ending work in progress.

My body is a gradual work of art

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

As we all know, the internet is not a true friend of the music industry yet, but technology is slowly changing that. Soon it will work right for all involved.