Laurence J. Peter Quotes

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.

Life's picking up speed.

We're lost, but we're making good time.

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere.

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.

Things take a long time, but when it's right things move fast.

I don't know what drives me to succeed.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Even if you’re on the right track, you can get run over if your not going fast enough.

One cannot move so fast so as to invite a backlash.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

If you just try, and be stubborn about trying, you can do what you set out to do.

A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.

Don't stop. Don't slow down. Keep focused.

The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them.

In football, like in life, there are always millimetres which can change things - the course of a goal or of a life.

If what you're doing today is moving you closer to your passion, then that's wonderful.

I'm ambitious in a good way. I've never wanted to settle as long as I've thought there's more.

L.A. and America, in general, have this incredible hustle about them. There's this sense of momentum.

America is never great. America is great in what it can be, which is the American dream.

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.