Quotes About Progression

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

Grace can and does have a history.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

The whole past is the procession of the present.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.

Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

This year we plan to run and shoot. Next season we hope to run and score.

For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?

After every sunny day, comes a stormy night

I went straight from shenanigans to crimes against humanity.

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Marriage is like a toothbrush. It starts out smooth and gets kind of prickly towards the end.

Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

He's 31 this year: last year he was 30.

The thing about trends is that they change over time, but who you are is forever

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact... It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through ones contribution.