Progression Quotes

178 quotes by 158 authors

Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the… — Jacqueline Bisset
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. — William Blake
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself. — William Ellery Channing
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the… — Tori Amos
Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas. — Bruce Oldfield
Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions,… — Robert Henry Thurston
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson
Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity… — John Milton
The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some of the most… — Humphry Davy
Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself — Henry Adams
I believe my party should never flinch from the requirement that we must continue this progression, otherwise we may end up like the Republican party… — Margot James
In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us… — Marvin J. Ashton
Belief, humble belief, is the foundation of all righteousness and the beginning of spiritual progression. It goes before good works, opens the door to an… — Bruce R. McConkie
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men… — Victor Hugo
I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered they had many… — Neil Sedaka
Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt… — Conor Oberst
You can find me in the melodies, the chord progressions, the song style and structure. The lyrical places you fine me most are in the… — Kristian Bush
These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when I… — Ani DiFranco
It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression. — George Will

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