Quotes About Progress

If we want the next generation to be born into a better world, we only have one option. And that is strong multilateralism, with the U.N. System at its core.

You ain't got to wait on a cab no more; just call your Uber, and it pulls up. But waiting isn't an option: that's just a big part of life.

I sat down with my agent and went through my youth-team video footage. I saw that when I started, I'd get on the ball and within two touches would turn straight away and look to attack my opponent, but when I got into the first team, I would go for the safer option.

I fell in love with this idea that you could press a button and an SUV would show up. That idea of bringing mobility to places where it hadn't been an easy option - that was a pretty compelling mission. It was a huge, huge challenge.

If you want to achieve something, you're going to run into roadblocks, but you have to learn how to pivot and explore your options.

Show people a positive path that enables them to make progress on their own terms. Give them options and alternatives that empower them.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

The world is changing, and the way we consume music is obviously changing. I was one of the biggest CD advocates you will find, but when Apple music and digital options came out, like for everyone else, it was more conducive to my lifestyle.

If you ever get to a point where you stop learning, you will find your professional options and your personal satisfaction severely curtailed.

I know that if I'm going to take myself to where I want to go as an athlete and a person, I have to look at all my training options.

Men starting out have so many options of filmmakers to connect with artistically and be shepherded by and collaborate with. I just didn't have an older, more experienced me to help me. So I hope all the women making movies now are aware we have the opportunity to be that to new filmmakers.

We care about this not being a world where 600 people have gotten on orbit; we want it to be 600,000.

To me, we have never really exploited our ability in low-Earth orbit.

I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.

When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

People talk very much about, 'What can we do with the orchestra in the 21st century?' We should think about the 21st century, of course.

All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.

Growth comes from chaos, not order.

Work is a way of bringing order to chaos, and there's a basic satisfaction in seeing that we are able to make something a little more coherent by the end of the day.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

You have to have a cultural ethic that allows for making mistakes. It cannot be that just because you make mistakes, you're out. You have to make mistakes in order to innovate.