Quotes About Progress

get busy copying... travelling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means of acquiring a skill.

They key is to learn how to keep free-floating fears from paralyzing you before you've begun.

In every situation, at the beginning or end of the workday, you have a choice. You can look back or you can look forward. My advice: look forward. Always think about the next day. Don't go into the studio thinking, 'Hmmm, let's see what I was doing yesterday?' It takes more energy to twist yourself around and look back that it does to face forward.

Use your worry, but know when to leave it behind.

When I can't build a cathedral, I build a bridge to get there.

There is nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tacks.

But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.

The fourth and final step is that the human isn't needed much at all because the program on its own is so strong.

Markets are not just about the steam engine, iron foundries, or today's silicon-chip factories. Markets also supported Shakespeare, Haydn, and the modern book superstore. The rise of oil painting, classical music, and print culture were all part of the same broad social and economic developments, namely the rise of capitalism, modern technology, rule of law, and consumer society.

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

Who you are at 20 will not be who you are at 40 and if it is, SOMETHING IS WRONG!

Your beginning never dictates your destnation.

It takes a while to build a dream

route, one you hadn't planned on taking. You may not make it exactly at the time you thought you would reach your destination because of unforeseen variables.

Try this affirmation: "I'm on the road to meet my dream.

But God ain't going to do a thing until you get up and do something yourself. Everything starts with you.

uncomfortable in your situation, know that it's probably time for you to move on.

Focus on one step at a time. Be grateful for how far you've come. Thank God for where you are. Keep going.

I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.

We live in different times. I would not have described London as a city of gun-toters but that was when Londoners still said sorry when you knock them over and called cappuccinos fluffy coffees & policemen, bobbies!

The important thing is to keep your eyes on the road and keep going. Stay focused. Don't stop. Don't turn back. And don't forget to enjoy the wild ride.

Civilization is a horizon which we can approach, while barbarity is a background from which we seek to move away; neither condition can be entirely identified with particular beings. It consists of acts and attitudes that are barbarian or civilized, not individuals or peoples.

You cannot progress beyond you current state, with the same thoughts and actions and that brought you there.

Chapman, M. (1988). Constructive evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.