Quotes About Progress

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

Everything I get praised for, I can still work on and get better.

No matter how much you pray or fast, our country cannot grow without some of us deciding to do the hard work that makes nations work.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

I pray that in the future, no one knows the meaning of women empowerment because we don't need these words.

If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.

I always preach you have to have a short memory, whether it is good or bad.

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.

I realized I needed to take more responsibility, be more mature, not to lose the ball in precarious areas. In past I was apathetic, didn't think too much.

I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.

There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a black woman directing films in Hollywood.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.

Don't get attached to any one idea. Nothing is too precious.

You need to make things and not be so precious about whether they're any good or not. Because I have a secret for you: they're not good. They're flawed, and you need to find out what the flaws are as fast as possible.

There's precious little incentive to try and make it in the world of management - and that's especially true in England.

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.

I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.

Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated one. His administration has been making pro-gay noises for some time; his demographic in the upcoming election is young and educated, precisely the group that favours equality for the LGBT community.

It's not precisely that I'm not ambitious. I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... much... to go on to the next level.

We are going to seek to improve the lives of our people on an ongoing basis, and since 1994, we have done precisely that.