Quotes About Progress

The only way you're going to get caps is by playing. I've played all the way through the age groups, and that was my experience. Now I'm on the main stage, and I've got to play to my strengths.

The goal of the revolution is to achieve the people's rights, but during the course of the revolution, we must stress military power - and the two are mutually contradictory.

I used to stress out if I wasn't attaining my goals by their due date, but not anymore.

The more you change and stress the body the quicker it's going to adapt and change.

My coaches and I always stress getting better and working on all aspects, so I'm ready to fight and take it to the next level.

When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don't progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, and everything is an effort.

I'm used to things changing, I'm used to having to keep going and not really stopping to think and stress out.

Every record I do does a little better than the last, which in turn makes me more stressed out.

I purposely put myself in new, stressful situations so that I can continuously learn.

It's always stressful working on a new piece, but it concentrates the energy.

A good role is something that will stretch your abilities and make you go beyond your levels.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

Humpty' was something I had to do. I had to stretch myself as an actor.

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.

I want to stretch myself as an actor.

You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.

I should say that generally I'm a pretty happy person, but as soon as I'm done with a project, I'm usually not happy at all. I feel a little empty and strange. I begin to think about how I can get better, stretch more artistically and intellectually. My biggest worry is getting complacent.

When you learn, you grow. You have to stretch, and it's not easy. You know, if you're working out your muscles, if you're doing whatever, it's gonna hurt a little bit.

I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.

A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.

On every job you learn, on every job you should be looking to learn and every decision you make on the jobs you take, they should always try in some way, even if not in a huge way, they should in some way stretch you.

There are things that I work on day after day to be efficient down the stretch.

I've said this quite often, there was a certain stretch in my career where my gender held me back.