Quotes About Progress

Over the years I've evolved a lot as a performer.

I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

I've had a lot of opportunities to grow inside and out as a performer, artist, and a woman.

I intend to keep reinventing myself both as a performer and also in terms of my looks for as long as possible.

I'm perfecting my craft as an artist and as a performer, and my shows are getting better each time.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.

In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

I have grown up now... with so much experience in life that I keep incorporating in my expression while performing.

If you feel too comfortable while you're performing, you're probably not doing it right.

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

It's a huge change from when I started in the 1960s, but what is really impressive is that the number of ladies on set, the women working on set is a huge percentage. There used to be no women. It was just the leading lady's mother, perhaps the hairdresser and the makeup person.

I think that the 21st century will be feminine, that it's women who will, perhaps, find a way out for this world.

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

Every city in America and in the world should be trying to grow its technology ecosystem, period. Especially if they care about their children and their grandchildren.

It's always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn't make sense.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I didn't know what was happening, how it was going to be, how it was all going to feel. As time went on it was great. Everything felt good so we decided to go with it.

The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.