Work In Progress Quotes - Page 3

• Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

  Michael Merzenich

  Brain, Progress, Use

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• If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of sloppy editing. I'm repeating myself. I'm reshuffling words in the hope that just once I might say something exactly right. And I'm still wrestling with dilemmas that are not easily resolved or easily dismissed. I run at them again and again because I am not finished with them. Any may never be. Work-in- progress on a life-in-progress is what my writing is about. And some progress in the work is enough to keep it going on.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Running, Hope

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.28, Ivy Books

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• Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.

  Pete Sampras

  Retirement, Progress, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.

  Jake Busey

  Perfect, Trying, Progress

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• But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Thinking, Democracy, Progress

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• Congratulations to the Auburn team and coach Malzahn. The piece for us was that we took some first and ten's and could not get a third down conversion. We kept putting the defense on the field. We tackled, we played hard, but offensively we did not execute. We are a work in progress. Certainly a group of men that are committed to fixing things. But frankly we did not get it done today.

  Les Miles

  Congratulations, Team, Men

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• This city, all they want us to be is ourselves. You love us how we are. We’re all a work in progress as men and you still love us and I thank you so much for embracing us.

  Kevin Durant

  Men, Mvp, Nba

  Kevin Durant's MVP Acceptance Speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

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• I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Believe, Views, Progress

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• The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that are much savvier and more complex than what you could come up with on your own. Find them with your marking pens as they emerge in your drafts. Become a student of your work in progress. Look for what your material is telling you about your material. Every aspect of a story has its own story.

  Lucy Corin

  Ideas, Progress, Looks

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• Im such a work in progress at the moment, its crazy, and life wants me on edge, I swear to you. But as long as I dont forget the past, Im cool. One must always be mindful, just like you might forget that old girlfriend who tried to slit your throat, but shes really still hot. If you remember the stitches more than you remember the pussy, youre going to be just fine.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Girlfriend, Crazy, Past

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• I don't discuss works in progress.

  Tom Clancy

  Progress

  Interview with Sacha A. Howells, CheckOut.com, June 27, 2004.

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• You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business mentality separate from the creative one, which is good for the songs. It's always a work in progress.

  David Longstreth

  Song, Creative, Progress

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• For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards.

  Thom Powers

  Taken, Editing, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.

  Lauren Groff

  Writing, Progress, Trying

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• I've never been trained as an actress, so it's all instinct. I just let myself go into this kind of a free fall. Sometimes I feel scared, or out of my element - like everyone else knows what they're doing but me. I don't know . . . Maybe I function well with fear or I like to be faced with a challenge . . . I think I'm just a work in progress.

  January Jones

  Fall, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What surprised me was the angst at our democracy. And I understand it - I teach at a university and feel it in my students - but what I've tried to say to people is that we have amazing institutions, but nobody ever said we were perfect. We struggled before and we're struggling now, and we're going to struggle every day. We're a work in progress. That's why the American experience is so important for us to remember, and for us to be a beacon for others to enjoy those same rights.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Struggle, Perfect, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Progress, Superstitions

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• Everything is a work-in-progress.

  Nicholas A. Basbanes

  Progress

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• I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

  Chris Lowe

  Play, People, Waiting

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• Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

  Simon Schama

  Essence, Progress, Moments

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• I would say national security is work in progress.

  Jeb Bush

  Progress, National Security, Security

  "'Hannity' Great American Forum: Jeb Bush". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. July 22, 2011.

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• While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Play, Progress, Trying

  "The Quality of Mercy".

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• I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Thinking, Criticism, Progress

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Michael Vick is a work in progress. I think he really is wanting to do the right thing. I think the Philadelphia Eagles have been a great organization for him. He's had some ups and downs. He still has to learn to not put himself in, maybe bad situations, in terms of personal life and friends, and that kind of thing. But all in all, I think he's growing every day.

  Tony Dungy

  Thinking, Progress, Kind

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• I'm doing the best I can with the ravages of time on my body and I'm a work in progress. I can't write a memoir because I can't do it this week or next week... I try to be an inspiration to the young to respect their older people; we can't stay the same, but we do the best we can with what's left. You can't whine about stuff, you have to learn to eat humble pie along the way and keep going, because the alternative is going to happen.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Inspiration, Writing, Humble

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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