Progression Quotes

178 quotes by 158 authors

The never-ending task of self improvement. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful,… — P.G. Wodehouse
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm.… — A. S. Byatt
...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who… — Marcus Luttrell
Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than fathers; of course… — Susan J. Douglas
But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for… — Garth Stein
I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who… — Gilles Deleuze
Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age. — Vera Nazarian
I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that… — John Stuart Mill
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big… — Steven Moffat
When your fight has purposeâ€”to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocentâ€”it has a hope of finality. When the fight… — Tea Obreht
[Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise - some must be… — Brandon Sanderson
Without contraries there is no progression. — William Blake
All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage. — Cormac McCarthy
These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music. — Grant Morrison
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the… — David Hume
The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year.… — David Levithan
It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it's a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to travel the world… — Erica Packer
Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that. — Christian de Portzamparc

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