Quotes About Progress

I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.

It still baffles my brain that I actually get to portray a character on American television that's this gay, femme-y Filipino guy.

How long will we show birds and bees in love scenes? The world has moved on and we should portray intimate scenes realistically.

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.

The war against sexism is portrayed increasingly a battle long ago won. To which my response is, 'if only'.

When success comes, it changes everything, so I'm interested in portraying what that's like, and I think I have a lot of connection with that.

I was doing well for myself and wanted to play different roles and not just be happy portraying glamorous characters.

New highways, ports, and runways appear economically foolish if we don't understand the economic growth that flows from such investments.

We got rid of parallel ports, the serial bus, floppy drives, physical keyboards on phones - do you miss the physical keyboards on your phone?

I just have to improve here at Chelsea. I played in Portugal but here it is a higher level so I'm sure I can improve a lot and I will work hard every day.

Since I started playing, I always wanted to pose a threat to the batsmen, so I always kept evolving.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.

I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

I want to keep on improving as a player and become the best... one of the best midfielders in my position in the world.

I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.

I think there is a lot of experiences you have in coaching, and if you learn from the experiences as you go through them, whether it's as a coordinator or position coach, a quality-control coach, a head coach, whatever it might be, and you learn from those mistakes you make.

Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels.

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

I'm really trying to work on my defensive positioning.

I feel like I've improved immensely in terms of my defending, not only in one-versus-ones but also with my positioning.

There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.

I've been playing against really good guys. Put myself in positions to win. Eventually I'll win more than I lose these.

I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.