Quotes About Advancement

Why stop now when I'm just getting the hang of it?

I don't want to continue to do what I did when I was 20. I would like to continue to develop myself and not continue to hang around with bands.

My goal is to get better every year and statistically that has happened in a lot of different things.

Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary.

I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did.

It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.

We have brave hearts and won't retreat. We are not going back; we are going forward.

My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.

Once I started advancing in my career, I stopped wanting to hide from my reality.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

I'm a forward, and I need to score goals, but I want to play at a higher level.

I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind; to follow him is to leave one's self behind.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

Year by year and minute by minute, everybody and everything was whizzing rapidly upwards.

And in all of us there is at least a tinge of that habit of mind. In every country in the world the large army of scientists and technicians, with the rest of us panting at their heels, is marching along the road of 'progress' with the blind persistence of a column of ants.

In a world where everything could be done by machinery, everything would be done by machinery.

As compared with last year there was more food, more clothes, more houses, more furniture, more cooking pots, more fuel, more ships, more helicopters, more books, more babies—more of everything except disease, crime, and insanity. Year by year and minute by minute, everybody and everything was whizzing rapidly upwards.

During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.

Therefore, I urge all men to be in the front rank of progress and not to stand still, lest they be left behind.

But what a difference now.

As the months went by

What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story.