Quotes About Progress

People are stubborn, and sometimes even if change is good, people will always oppose change.

With years, you change. You're not as hardheaded or stubborn. You are more malleable.

At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.

If you are not constantly improving and learning, then you are going to be stuck and not progress.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.

The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia, in fact, is one of my worst fears.

Charter schools in particular have proven a lifeline for millions of children stuck in chronically failing schools.

There's a grace period where being a mess is charming and interesting, and then I think when you hit around 27, it stops being charming and interesting, and it starts being kind of pathological, and you have to find a new way of life. Otherwise, you're going to be in a place where the rest of your peers have been moving on, and you're stuck.

If we don't move with time, we'll be stuck in old ways.

We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.

My fear is getting stuck doing the same thing over and over.

I got my family here and my career here and I'm sitting here in the middle, and I'm stuck. So I have to do something, you know, have to reach out and get some help.

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

I feel like if you're stuck doing the same thing your whole career you've got to be doing something wrong. Unless you're getting great results from it or you're just comfortable in that spot.

But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.

I don't like feeling stuck, like I'm not going anywhere.

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.

I wanted to be in the big leagues, not stuck in the minor leagues.