Quotes About Progress

Just growing up and maturing has made my music so much better.

I am becoming a man; I am maturing day by day. The influence of being around men helps me and makes me be more professional.

Who doesn't change through their 20s? I changed probably more than the average person who lives in one place and has a job. But everybody changes significantly in maturity, we'd like to think, from 20 to 30.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.

What I'm trying to do is maximize every day.

The people at Utrecht know that I'm always looking to improve myself and that I want to get the maximum out of my career.

I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

Having been a mayor, we prioritized based on where we want our city and our country to go.

Once you've been a mayor, you look to try to get things done.

Mayors are known to be problem-solvers.

Mayors in any city are pretty non-partisan people where it's problem solvers.

Some will say I don't sound like past mayors or look like them or think like them, and I say yes, I don't - that is the point.

We're allowing technology to take out the non-value-added manual elements of the McDonald's experience.

I've met people at the top of companies like Accenture who started off in McDonald's.

There is no such thing as the perfect meal; one can always do better.

If you get just a bit of exercise in before every meal, you'll really see a difference.

To effect meaningful change, you have to look at who's in the boardrooms, who has the financial control of businesses, and who has the greenlighting power.

Technology is only meaningful when it reaches the people.

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

Records are meant to be broken, I guess.

If there's ever a vote for single-payer, I'm a 'yes.' But there are lots of things we can do in the meantime.

A lot of people didn't like the 'Fantastic Four' for the first year and a half. It took a certain measure of time for me to find my feet in terms of what I wanted to do with the concept.