Quotes About Progress

Work faster, smarter and harder

Woman has two works to perform: a work of differentiation, of man from herself, and a work of unification, of man with herself. ... We, woman, are now entering upon our second work.

My very best advice to fellas: work from the outside in.

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.

I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.

In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.

Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.

Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch projects go from Minute 1.

How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.

You've really got to keep on improving and improving and improving. It still involves work. It's not like you get to a point, and then you're good and that's it.

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

I know that in my own work I'm able to do all kinds of things I never thought I'd be able to do.

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.

How Sunday into Monday melts!

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

With some hard work I'm sure you'll be able to walk again.

I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

A person is what his life is. Therefore, if he does not modify anything within himself, if he does not radically transform his life, if he does not work on himself, he is miserably wasting his time.