Quotes About Progress

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

It takes facing obstacles to grow strong enough to overcome them.

When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect.

There's no way to become great overnight, but in the marathon of success, it takes a lot of intention to see you through each day of the journey.

I'm not a manager. I just try my best and see where it takes me.

The 'Grace of Kings' begins as a very dark, complicated world filled with injustices - among them the oppressed position of women - but gradually transforms into something better through a series of revolutions. But since real social change takes a long time, even by the end of the book, only the seeds of deep change have been planted.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

I believe in taking things slow, one step at a time.

Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

In Formula One nothing is easy, but I can feel I'm taking the right steps, that I'm working in the proper way.

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

We're taking all of the lessons that we have from New Shepard and incorporating them into New Glenn.

You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

Everybody's kind of always had a little bit more faith in my shot than me, and I had to work on it overseas and get comfortable with taking it.