Quotes About Progression

I started out in the theater when I was a young actor, so I've always tried to move from one medium to the other.

Well, I don't think characters change. I think they become more revealed. I don't think you really can change a character on a show.

Once the season starts you start to get into a rhythm.

One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.

When people ask me about my routine, it's hard to say because I change it every week.

If you look back at my fights, if you pick three or four fights in a row, it's possible if you watch my style I'm fighting a different type of style every single fight.

You get more time to see the growth of a character in a series, there's no scope for that in films.

From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.

I grew up watching 'Magnum, P.I.' and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along the way.

I think there's seasons of life. It oscillates.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and to the school of architecture, I took up modern painting.

A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.

We parcel up time into years and months and days because without compartmentalisation the tundra of time is impossible to navigate.

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

I've been a DJ since I was about 13, and I started out as a hip-hop DJ. So I was always playing records that would just get people going. I was just doing parties and high school dances and whatever, and then, progressively, I started making my own music, writing little songs here and there, but it was never anything crazy.

Watch your thoughts for they become words.  Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits.  Watch your habits for they become your character.  And watch your character for it becomes your destiny.  What we think we become.

Malthusian-Ricardian theory predicted that an increasing population would result in a specific progression of effects. Rents would rise first, with grain prices lagging behind rents, the price of industrial goods lagging behind grain prices, and workers' wages bringing up the rear. The evidence showed that this was precisely what happened (until the whole system was dramatically changed in the nineteenth century).

By now it's got as much in common with its origins as a humpback whale would have with the sperm cells from a therapsid lizard. Still

A]tomic nuclei are pretty hard to peer into. But that's not the root of the problem. It's that we simply can't, for quantum processes, talk about a historical progression of events that led to a given outcome. There's no story of how it 'got' to be that way.

The past is reinvented and becomes the future. But the lineage is everything.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.