Quotes About Progress

When you're writing a feature film, the moment you begin Page 1, you are in a sweat that you're running out of pages.

It took me years to get out of the bargain basement. I always wanted to walk into a men's store and buy a cashmere sweater.

I've been sweating away for 30 years - then I became Hastings.

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

Private schools cannot be the answer to nation's needs. Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway are leading examples where government schools are world acclaimed.

The richness of America is that we are diverse. We're not Sweden. We're not Norway. We are a great American experiment. And as soon as we start trying to forget race or turn our back on race, number one, we don't confront the real racial realities that still persist.

I met my wife in New York, so, we lived together there for five years, so my Swedish was kind of a gradual learning process.

Well, one of the things I should tell you is that if you look at the very long sweep of history what you see is that the rate of growth has been speeding up, the rate of progress, and that's because there's more and more people who are all engaged in this process of discovery.

Maybe you're not going to be able to pass sweeping health care reform in your first year in Congress. But you can help someone with a social security settlement that's going to change their life... That's pretty cool.

The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway.

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.

Obama has presided over sweeping cultural advances, particularly in the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.

I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

Success has taken its own sweet time to reach me.

It may part of a one way evolution... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle where one day, with an up cycle, sweet will be entertaining again.

I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more than likely I'd be in Sweet 75 today still.

I was a really bad kid. Then, I got sweet as I got older.

U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and also designed so that we will never permanently reach it. We likely would just sit around and eat sweet and fatty foods all day, and that is simply not in the interest of evolution.

I owe a lot to my time on 'House of Cards' because, up until I booked that show, I had been working consistently for 12 years, but I wasn't working on anything that mattered in the way 'House of Cards' did to its audience, to casting directors, to directors and producers. The show hit this sweet spot.

I have a lot to show as an actor, and I will take my own sweet time for that.

When I was growing up, the current of feminism was strong. You just had to step off the bank, and you'd be swept up. There was an active women's movement. My mother was a part of it.

Democracy is rarely easy, nor swift.