Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
When you ask a bunch of people to see a film, and then invite them to comment on it and tell them it's a work-in-progress, they feel bound to offer an opinion.
I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.
I'm willing to fight for Social Security, Medicare, student loans, U.S. jobs, equal pay, progressive taxation and full employment.
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.
My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
...if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress.
Life’s journey is built of crests and troughs, the movement is always going to be fast only towards the trough and the progress is bound to be slow towards the crest.
The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.
I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.
We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.
Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.
My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential.
Our business is to be free of anything that separates us from God, who has created us to simply be happy and to progress.
Your minds PERCEPTION of the past will change your future vision, and either prevent or propel forward progress in life.
