Ongoing Development Quotes

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.

Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.

I have not done much as an actor. There is no end for an artist, and my best is yet to come.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

I'm always surprised reading my old journals. There's this idea that life is hard now, but then I'll reach that moment where it'll change. But there's no summit. It's a constant climb.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

Most people achieve their goals and are like, "Is this all there is?" We are supposed to keep growing so we have something to get. What we get never makes us happy. You play yourself when you forget that.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

I believe in no final solutions.

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions because I don’t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you’ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.

I don't want to hit a point where I feel there is nothing to improve upon - there always is.

Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company [team], coming to work everyday to find a better way, you don't have a company[team]. You're getting ready to die on the vine. You're always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better.

Military technology is like a continuing chess game, with no final move.

I am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding.

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.

Life change for us every single week so.. It's good but I know this aint the peak though.

A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.

The future is a process, not a destination.

I mean, we're always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.

Democracy is a process. It is never finished.

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.

It is a direction not a destination.

I'm always going to be a student. I'm always learning. I'm always trying to grow. I'm always trying to understand. I never want to feel like I've arrived.