Quotes About Progression

I find that I was wrong in suggesting that a Master of the Temple had a right to enter the temple of a Magus or an Ipsissimus. On the contrary, the rule that holds below, holds also above. The higher you go, the greater is the distance from one grade to another.

But the dreadful thing about wicked ideas is that bit by bit wicked minds can become accustomed to them.

Well, we're all mortal...and the old must make way for the young, otherwise there would be no promotion.

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on, so that it is very hard to keep in touch with the whole thing...

Runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Einstein once quipped that time's only purpose was to make sure that everything didn't happen at once.

You reset the universe from the point of the change onward.

Another curious thing about the slow progression out of depression: you begin to crave routine.

The fact that all the diseases of old age have a progression that is exponentially related to age. In other words your chance of having Alzheimer's, for example, at age seventy-five is twice that at age seventy. And your chance of having it age eighty is twice what it was at age seventy-five.

Once a line could truly be drawn in something other than sand, the notion of history as a progression became possible.

How a plain horse and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story that no one can beat

A story is a succession of motivations and reactions.

Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Cities and counties in the North and West passed racial zoning laws, banning blacks from the middle-class communities. In 1890, in Montana, blacks lived in all fifty-six counties in the state; by 1930, they'd been confined to just eleven.

Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,....Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.

The weather has changed completely in the last week. Last Saturday was mild and sunny, autumn looking reluctantly back over its shoulder towards summer. Today it was wet and blustery, autumn barrelling forward impatiently into winter.

One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.

the only reason for time is so everything doesn't happen at

Some people are comfortable talking about their lives, as if they can make sense of the progression of random events that made them what they are. This involves a kind of forward-looking faith in life; a conviction that cause and effect are linked, and that they are themselves more than the sum of their past.

Plant a thought, harvest an act," they sang. "Plant an act, harvest a habit; plant a habit, harvest a character; plant a character, harvest a destiny.