Quotes About Progress

Hope looks good on paper. But what creates greatness is focus, dedication and hard work. Daily. Go do it. We deserve to see you fly in 2014.

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.

In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.

I've done some good work and some not-good work.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.

The best founders work on things that seem small but they move really quickly. They get things done really quickly.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

So how's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya?

I always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in something that takes five or six years of my life.

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.

Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.

Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

If you work on anything long enough hopefully you'll get better and I feel like we're just growing.

I think in terms of the work were doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.