Quotes About Progress

If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

I was thrust, excitingly, via 'Elizabeth' and 'Shakespeare in Love,' into a position one can only dream of, but it was startling, too. I was offered a multitude of roles riding horses in flouncy shirts, and I just thought, 'Hang on, I've just done that. What next?'

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

I can't stomach the thought that we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less viable, less good, less competitive, less compassionate than the one we got.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

It is really a sad state of affairs if I am still the only commercially successful woman director. We need a lot more commercially viable women, not only in direction.

We know that in 2001 it was believed 78 stem cell lines existed. But now we know there are only 22 that are viable, and they have been contaminated with mouse stem cells.

We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels.

I completely believe in the lean startup and minimum viable product; I just I think that people are setting the threshold for minimum viable too low.

The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.

Efforts must be made to make BSP a viable alternative to form government in the state.

If we're going to be on this futuristic 3008 vibe, we need to step up our performance.

How do we make a record that's true to the vibe of the band but still maintain the pace of moving forward and doing something fresh?

Creating the album 'VIBES' has been the biggest life lesson I have ever learned.

We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.

An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society.

Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation - from a city in decline and on its knees to one that is growing, vibrant and confident.

Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'

Success, to me, is something new and vibrant.

Having more women in leadership helps our economy grow strong and our communities become even more vibrant.

I don't want to be one of these guys who sits in a room watching old footage of himself, reliving old glory. It's just not me. I want to create new adventures. I'm not trying to live vicariously through my own past.

I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to.

I want to build the next CNN with 'VICE' - it's within my grasp.

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.