Quotes About Progress

I want to maximize my potential. And when I talk about that, don't get me wrong - I'm not talking about just making money.

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

The Chinese economy has huge potential and flexibility.

Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

I say 'date potential.' The reason why is no matter who you date, anyway, five years from now, you're going to be different, and he's going to be different. The key is to really find somebody that you can grow with that you can change with, evolve with and that you can be partners with.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

When the present gets tough, you have to battle through it by imagining an outcome that is weeks, potentially even months, ahead.

We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

I would like to go back to school, potentially.

There's almost a total correlation between the amount of risk you're willing to take and then the amount of stuff you then potentially can get done.

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

I want my hands in all the pots and not just one. I want to make the right moves that'll put me in the right place.

When you have a little bit of a lead, you've got to continue to pound away.

I went on a diet and went from 248 pounds to 211.

There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.

If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.

My most string-beanish, I guess, is when I was 15 years old. From 15 to 16, I went from 155 pounds to 215. By the time I graduated from high school, I was between 235-250.

I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.

I gained, like, 20 pounds in, like, two and a half, three weeks. So I just got too big too fast, and my body wasn't adjusted to that.

I wasn't always 6' 4'' and 400 pounds.

I find it so hard to lose weight: it takes me weeks and weeks of dieting and training just to lose three pounds.