Top 100 Quotes For Work In Progress

#1. We are all just a work in progress.

Mary J. Blige

#2. When things in your life do not make sense, keep on praying. Ask God what He wants you to do, and let Him heal you on the inside. He understands that you and I are not perfect. We are works in progress, but we should let Him work within us.

Nick Vujicic

#3. The Devil loved watching children pour down the front steps of the high school like lava from a volcano. Trolling for souls. He posed in one of his favorite guises today, a school bus driver.

Serena Schreiber

#4. Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived ... I'm still learning all the time.

Renee Fleming

#5. People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

Nora Roberts

#6. In goodreads it's hard to find my progress in some stuff like quotes new and it needs a lot of work. But in twitter you can find everything - is it just a theory or a true. You decide!

Deyth Banger

#7. You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.

Chalene Johnson

#8. I'm a work in progress.

Barbra Streisand

#9. I'm not cruisin' this opportunity in time and space for you to like or dislike my 'get-down'; I'm here 'cause I'm down to get it right by the time I return to the 'mothaship'. I remain a work in progress.

T.F. Hodge

#10. You can make steadily progress in all spheres of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

Walton Goggins

#12. It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that are still a work in progress and there's a lot that we've got to overcome, so that we can all be equal.

Gloria Estefan

#13. If you notice yourself viewing a potential partner as a "work in progress", that's a sign to find someone else.

Miya Yamanouchi

#14. We're all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I've had to work harder than most.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#15. The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.

Gabriel Lippmann

#16. 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

#17. I don't discuss works in progress ...

Tom Clancy

#18. All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

#19. I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.

Neil Gaiman

#20. Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent a new acronym, or write a new empowerment charter, we can avoid some of the back-breaking work that sustained progress requires

Helen Zille

#21. A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

P.M.S. Blackett

#22. I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

Eve Ensler

#23. And somewhere along the way it is necessary to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. Start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#25. Time ... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he may be surrounded by all the conveniences money can provide; but if his time is taken from him he will remain sterile.

Walter Bradford Cannon

#26. When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.

Charles William Eliot

#27. Tam considers me a challenge. I consider Tam a work in progress. I also think there's a gentleman lurking under that calculating exterior. Tam thinks 'gentleman' is a dirty word. I talk dirty to Tam every chance I get.

Lisa Shearin

#28. Life's a daily work in progress. Always move forward reaching new goals. Hit a road block? Keep calm & stay strong.

Timothy Pina

#29. My life is just a never-ending work in progress.

Richard Simmons

#30. I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lies in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must lay in our pocketbooks. It lies in the willingness for people to work hard.

George W. Bush

#31. This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

Daphne Zuniga

#32. Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.

Aravind Adiga

#33. 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.

Andrew Dominik

#34. 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

#35. A work in progress. And the possibilities are endless.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#36. Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

Charles Kettering

#37. 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

#38. I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

Poppy Z. Brite

#39. I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

Adrienne Bailon

#40. Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

Max Frisch

#41. The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I did. I asked for help.

Carnie Wilson

#42. I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.

Zachary Knighton

#43. The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#44. I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen

Ani DiFranco

#45. Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

Epictetus

#46. She was born of space.

And starlight.

But she bled wrath.

And vengeance.."

[From Current Work In Progress]

Jenna Streety

#47. I would say national security is work in progress.

Jeb Bush

#48. While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#49. I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

Dan Brown

#50. Nobody can see your dream the way you see it because your dream is your dream, and you are responsible to build it. Work on your dreams and forget distractions because everyone becomes architects, designers and contractors when they see a work in progress.

Uzoma Nnadi

#51. A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

Steven Pressfield

#52. Ma's still spending too much money on clothes. I'm trying to teach her that material possessions don't equal happiness. It's a work in progress.

L. H. Cosway

#53. I'm a work in progress. You know, my kids didn't come with instructions ... and neither did this business, so when I put the two of them together, I gotta take it a little at a time.

Niecy Nash

#54. Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

John Maxwell Hamilton

#55. Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.

Brian Greene

#56. I officially give myself permission to be a work in progress. I do not have to be perfect to have absolute value. I am a student in the classroom of life and I am right on track in my personal process of becoming.

Kimberly Giles

#57. In science, work (W) is done when force (F) move a body through a distance (D). It is the same with our every day affairs. When you don't progress, no work is done irrespective of the force (power) you have

Israelmore Ayivor

#58. perhaps real beauty was something unrecognized by the conscious self, a work that was always in progress, a thing of being rather than seeing.

Stephen King

#59. Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

Alana Stewart

#60. My eyes can scan the list of work in progress, and I know immediately what's happening in the current month. I even use custom icons on Windows and color-coding on Mac to get even more information at a glance when I open my go-to folder - see the sidebar.

Jill Duffy

#61. Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#62. There is no night in the life of brave, just like there is much rest in the hearts of the lazy ones.

Auliq Ice

#63. A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm consistently inconsistent. I'm all of the above. I'm OK. I'm a work in progress. That's my next tattoo somewhere.

Ronnie Dunn

#64. I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

Rachel Weisz

#65. Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.

Lindy West

#66. Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For me, success is about this, seeing the slow progress in my work.

Ali Banisadr

#67. We are men and women from many lands, representing a rich variety of cultures. And we have been brought together to work in a great common cause: the survival and progress of mankind. The concept of unity in diversity ... underlies our various pursuits at the United Nations.

Kurt Waldheim

#68. Faith is a process in action. It cannot exist without work.

Ellen J. Barrier

#69. I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.

Raymond Chandler

#70. Everything is a work-in-progress.

Nicholas A. Basbanes

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

Daisaku Ikeda

#72. We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when we are miserable and work with ourselves to replace our misery with joy and understanding.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

#73. The advice I tell students is to think about the big problems. I mean, work on anything you can work on where you can make progress. But always keep in mind the big problems.

David Gross

#74. Relationships are a never-ending work in progress.

Francis Ray

#75. Van Halen is a work in progress.

Alex Van Halen

#76. The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

David Bowie

#77. We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.

Donna Edwards

#78. Part of my journey is sort of learning the ways that I'm unconsciously blocked and trying to open them up. I'm a complete "work in progress" in that area.

Lauren Bowles

#79. 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

#80. I'm proud to be a work in progress.

Hannah Hart

#81. 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

#82. I am what I am, and what I am is a work in progress.

E.E. Blackwood

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

Ashwin Sanghi

#84. Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

George W. Romney

#85. But I'm still a work in progress. My mother calls me quite frequently with various critiques of my performance on TV and other public events. She's usually pretty severe with her comments.

John McCain

#86. I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.

Barbra Streisand

#87. I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew I didn't want to work in a hotel forever, but I had some good teachers there.

April Bloomfield

#88. All creativity is a work in progress

Dean Cavanagh

#89. It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

Rick Rubin

#90. Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like filling your house with more and more beautiful wicker baskets. It's supposed to be cumulative - it believes in progress.

Elif Batuman

#91. Under Bayes' theorem, no theory is perfect. Rather, it is a work in progress, always subject to further refinement and testing.

Nate Silver

#92. When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

Mercedes McCambridge

#93. Human nature is a work in progress.

Nick Bostrom

#94. As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.

Marco Rubio

#95. Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

Joyce Meyer

#96. I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

Ed Asner

#97. I'm always a work in progress.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#98. We're building a movement. It's undeniably a work in progress, but there's a fundamental desire to see capitalism to do something different.

Thomas Perez

#99. As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#100. Achievers are those who have redefined impossible, changing what can't be done into a work in progress.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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