Quotes About Progress

I don't like to dwell on the past.

You can't live off your past.

The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.

We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'

Every team goes through a lean patch.

Every player goes through rough patches.

I had a couple rough patches early in my career. I think I might have made some bad choices here and there.

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

Everyone has a different path and journey.

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.