Progress Report Quotes

#1. I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

Boris Johnson

#2. My progress report
concerning my journey to the palace of wisdom
is discouraging.
I lack certain indispensable aptitudes.
Furthermore, it appears
that I packed the wrong things.

James Baldwin

#3. Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.

Deborah Levy

#5. I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more prepared I am, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

Aaron Rodgers

#6. I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.

Patricia Highsmith

#7. The Second Chancers' welfare is our primary concern, which is why we like to bring in people who know them and can report on their progress from an insider's perspective.

Megan Thomason

#8. It's true that the skills required to be a conman are the same as those required for being an actor. Though those skills are in the service of something a bit more noble with acting, I hope.

John C. Reilly

#9. A number of individuals tried to make my homosexuality a topic of debate. I admittedly found that rather upsetting.

Jens Spahn

#10. I just wish the people in this country would start wearing some brighter colors. It's so goddamn depressing here.

Annie Ward

#11. In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast.

Edward R. Murrow

#12. There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None of them were the men we knew.

Margaret Atwood

#13. Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the American people, custodians of the American heritage. It is my task to report the State of the Union
to improve it is the task of us all.

John F. Kennedy

#14. I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.

Khaled Hosseini

#15. Meditation is the only way you can grow. Because when you meditate, you are in silence, you are in thoughtless awareness. Then the growth of awareness takes place.

Nirmala Srivastava

#16. If what you do brings freedom and life, it is most likely Christianity. If it doesn't, it is probably religion, and there is already too much of that in the world.

James L. Rubart

#17. Strengthened by the experiences of almost two decades in the various capitals, the Nazis were confident that their best "propaganda" would be their racial policy itself, from which, despite many other compromises and broken promises, they had never swerved for expediency's sake.

Hannah Arendt

#18. You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for

Billy Joel

#19. A knife may scar a body, but a careless word will wound a soul.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#20. Report cards are not a potential prize, but a way to offer students useful feedback on their progress. And Type I students understand that a great way to get feedback is to evaluate their own progress.

Daniel H. Pink

#21. At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder