Quotes About Progression

We ascend, he said, from physical needs (food, clothing, shelter) to safety needs (security, protection, assurance), then on to social needs (love, friendship, belonging), and next to the need for self-esteem (valuing self, self-worth, pride).

Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

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. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

Imperceptible, adj. We stopped counting our relationship in dates (first date, second date, fifth, date, seventh) and started counting it in months. That might have been the first true commitment, this shift in terminology. We never talked about it, but we were at a party and someone asked how long we`d been together, and when you said, A month and a half," I knew we had gotten there.

When you date someone, you have the markers along the way, right: You kiss, you have The Talk, you say the Three Little Words, you sit on a swing set and break up. You can plot the points on a graph. And you check up with each other along the way: Can I do this? If I say this, will you say it back? But with friendship, there's nothing like that. Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.

plot is not the story, but an Ariadne's thread you follow through a labyrinth of scenes.

Cigarettes took them to medals, which took them to guns, which took them to radios, which took them to jeeps. By midnight, Samad had won three jeeps, seven guns, fourteen medals, the land attached to Gozan's sister's house, and an IOU for four horses, three chickens and a duck.

All my albums are evolutions, one on top of the other.

I was in the band for the first six albums.

I did alternative rock before. That's why my style is the way it is now.

All of the things we learned on 'Coraline' we applied to 'ParaNorman,' and all of the things we learned on 'ParaNorman' and 'Coraline' we applied to 'The Boxtrolls.'

My favorite artists are the ones that I can take their eight or ten albums, and I can see the arc of their life.

With any project, but especially in television, I always try to look at where the character is starting from and where he's going to end up, and try to find the biggest arc that makes it the most exciting to play.

It's always good to have a story arch.

It takes time to adapt to become an Arsenal player.

In short, your good points will become your faults, your faults will be vices, and your virtues crime.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

One of the peculiar traits of Egyptian culture and belief is, surprisingly enough, an obsession with the idea of eternal progression,147 another nomad heritage. The saints, das wandernde Gottesvolk, have always been drawn to distant horizons and spurned "this present world" as altogether too confining.148 The passage from world to world and from horizon to horizon was dramatized in the ordinances of the temple, which itself represented a horizon.

One of the keys to my career longevity has been an awareness that there are times you need to humble yourself and simply switch lanes. You need to recognize that there are distinct phases to everything and be ready to embrace the changing phases.

Sandalias. Al maestro sufi Ghulam-Shah se le preguntó qué patrón utilizaba al formular sus cursos para discípulos. Dijo: "Descalzo hasta que puedas obtener sandalias, sandalias hasta que puedas valerte de botas".

En los que proceden de bien en mejor, el buen ángel toca a la tal ánima dulce, leve y suavemente, como gota de agua que entra en una esponja; y el malo toca agudamente y con sonido y inquietud, como cuando la gota de agua cae sobre la piedra. Y a los que proceden de mal en peor tocan los sobredichos espíritus contrario modo.

Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.

Acceptance is always progression.