Audra McDonald Quotes

An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward.

I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.

Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.

People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.

You're progressing on something and that's what it's all about. You wanna keep moving, having a progress in your life.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'

When you are through changing, you are through.

I'm always looking to learn and am never happy with how I am going. I think once you get comfortable with what you are offering it is dangerous territory to be in.

If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

I honestly believe that if you're not growing, then you are taking the space that somebody else would get if you moved forward.

Of course we believe we can always improve because the moment that you think you cannot improve anymore you go backwards.

In the future, I want to be consistent from Day 1. We're still making adjustments. I still believe that I can be better.

I'm always moving forward and trying new things.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

The day you think you have reached your fullest potential is the day that you havn't.

You can't always do that which you can do in your sleep. That doesn't fulfill an artist. You're looking for places where you can grow, in some way, whether it's a large way or a small way. I want to grow as an artist, as a person and as a woman. I want to enjoy myself and my life and the company that I'm keeping. I want to bring something to the table that's different than anything else would bring, but that has its place and value, and then keep moving.

Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move.

Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

I think she's going to be better and better if she works hard.

I always set myself new goals. I always want to do better than I did in the past. I always want to achieve things I never achieved before.

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.