Quotes About Progress

If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

We don't need a president who just says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." We need a president who says, America, let's start our economy and put people back to work.

We still have a lot of work to do to protect our own democracy.

There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.

Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

But I'm still a work in progress. My mother calls me quite frequently with various critiques of my performance on TV and other public events. She's usually pretty severe with her comments.

Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does.

Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.

I think we're in a time and place, the last 20 plus years, and certainly now, it's only more so, where it's just about us creating a body of work. Creating hopefully our own scene.

The work changes the way your face changes and ages - it just does. Also, I have very little connection to anything I've written. I move on. We all move on

It's inspiring just to work on something and just kind of keep the creative juices flowing.

I think what we need to do is we need to seek some other way in which to do what is potentially good work by Google. Google has made the world a better place in some ways.

I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.

One thing I've noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

Making sweeping statements such as 'no sweets ever again' has never worked before, and it's not going to work now. You'll get quickly overwhelmed and punt on any positive momentum you created.

I would loathe to work on modern films.

At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.