Quotes About Progress

Sometimes you're running toward your target so hard that you don't stop to reassess.

I'll never get to my target size or weight.

Everyone's target is to improve Pakistan's cricket.

My target from a young boy is to try and reach as far as possible and achieve as much as I possibly can.

I'm taking my own time but I don't want to just relax either. Also, when you're looking for work, everybody approaches you, but I'm trying to target the right project that takes me a level up.

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.

Imagine being able to predict and prevent cancer before it starts. If we gather the world's talent and expertise in a committed, targeted effort, great progress is possible.

We need specific work on race equality programmes and programmes targeted at helping those who are yet to fulfil their potential.

The growth that we are targeting for our bank is in line with the banking industry.

We didn't build the modern country to be bike-friendly - our initial round of infrastructure was not designed to think about how to get around if you're not in a car. So we've got to be targeting resources, both nationally and locally, to how people are going to get around in the new world.

If you want to improve, you have to set high targets.

My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.

We haven't rushed to set up targets, either in business or in football. Our goal was to understand how to act and then to move gradually.

I do have my targets in terms of what I need to improve on.

That's the way we want to go. Make smaller targets and then step by step developing.

We know that you can only achieve certain targets by working.

I'm not getting bored with cycling or winning - I love it. But I need to give myself new targets all the time.

Paul Nixon taught me to break a run chase down into little targets. I suppose I stole his cues and took them into my own game.

Every round I have three little targets. Maybe it is just 'talk to myself properly' or 'stand up straight on the greens.' One day I might say, 'Don't talk to anyone.' On another I'll be a lot chattier. Or I might say, 'smile all the way round.' Little things. But little things turn into bigger things.

The thing is athletes get more confidence the more they race, the more they are hitting personal targets - it just gives you confidence.

I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Getting back into shape is always a difficult task for me.

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.