Quotes About Progression

The next five decades would each show a growth of the enslaved population of never less than 24 percent—

Your destiny is that which you must inevitably experience. Really it is an infinite number of individual destinies, each of which when attained is the starting place for a new destiny.

yourself by imagining yourself into the feeling of your wish fulfilled. Then, you speed from this state of the wish fulfilled—where you have not been physically—back to where you were physically a moment ago. Then, with an irresistible forward movement, you move forward across a series of events to the physical realization of your wish that where you have been in imagination, there you will be in the flesh also.

I started in that manner, trying to test it, and it worked like a charm. Then from then on the name itself began to unfold into higher levels. Always might, but from the higher and higher

there's a difference between doing something and being something, but they merge into each other. I mean, you play the piano a bit, and then more and more, and at some point you become a pianist. That's who you are.

Bit by bit, we become people we don't want to be,

Our intellectual maturation as individuals can be traced through the way we draw pictures, or maps, of our surroundings. We begin with primitive, literal renderings of the features of the land we see around us, and we advance to ever more accurate, and more abstract, representations of geographic and topographic space. We progress, in other words, from drawing what we see to drawing what we know.

They had an almost irresistible tendency to degenerate into a kind of lolloping amble.

Just because two things happen in sequence, doesn't mean there's a casual relationship

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long.

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

These races came to distinguish ever more minute periods of duration, and at the same time to extend their temporal grasp so as to apprehend ever longer periods as "now.

We are all one, because we're all part of the same evolutionary story.

There are not three stages in spiritual life—worship, waiting and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs, we jump from worship to waiting, and from waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of Our Lord. He was unhasting and unresting. It is a discipline, we cannot get into it all at once.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

I'd always admired The Beatles for starting out as a bubblegum pop group and then getting heavier and heavier as their albums went on, and here was me going in the opposite direction.

There is, plainly, no deep logic to the unfolding of time.

But where of the beginner it's only a move, for the master it becomes the first step in a long sequence. It's like the diference between two apparently identical musical notes that might being a nursery rhyme or a symphony.

Being ready isn't enough you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Like all their peers they went about things in the reverse order to the practice of their parents generation. They had sex, realised they got on really well then fell in love.

This is the essence of the thought experiment. Suppose this happens. What happens next? What would that necessitate? And then? And then? And then what implications would arise? And so on.

La conversación, y por extensión la socialización y el cultivo de las relaciones con las personas, es algo que pasa por etapas, no de un solo golpe.

We all dislike small talk, but it does have a role. Getting to know someone happens in a sequential manner, and we cannot skip steps if we want to go deeper. It can be said that there are four stages to an interaction, and small talk is the first, followed by fact disclosure, then opinion disclosure, then emotion disclosure. The sequence can be played with, but understanding small talk's role is important.