Quotes About Progression

Mine was the Benjamin Button of careers; age and status had both gone backward. It definitely took some getting used to.

When was it exactly that I became... this? By small degrees, I suppose. One act presses hard 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 one day we look up and fine we are... this.

When was it exactly that I became… this? By small degrees, I suppose. One act presses hard 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 one day we look up and find we are… this.

You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living.

One act presses hard 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 one day we look up and find that we are . . . this.

When was it exactly that I became... this? By small degrees, I suppose. Once act presses hard 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 one day we look up and fine we are... this.

First it is done to us, then we do it to others, then we order it done. Such is the way of things.

When compassion becomes unconditionally ordinary and familiar for you, you have progressed from knowledge to experience to wisdom.

If knowledge is for the mind, and experience is for the body, then when you apply knowledge and create a new experience, you teach the body what the mind has intellectually learned. Knowledge without experience is merely philosophy; experience without knowledge is ignorance. There's a progression that has to take place. You have to take knowledge and live it—embrace it emotionally.

Reality and our interaction with it is a progression of ideas and beliefs.

Si los conocimientos son para la mente y las experiencias para el cuerpo, cuando aplicas los conocimientos y creas una experiencia nueva, le enseñas al cuerpo lo que la mente ha aprendido intelectualmente. Los conocimientos sin la experiencia no son más que filosofía; la experiencia sin conocimientos no es más que ignorancia. Existe una progresión que debe darse. Tienes que adquirir conocimientos y vivirlos, aceptarlos emocionalmente.

plyometrics movements. This is when you are getting the hang of doing the movements that are involved in both types of training and refining them. Following AA, as you move into the MT and MS periods, gradually increase both the weight loads and the plyometric intensities. For example, move from rope skipping to low-box jumping to high-box jumping. The MS period is when you will

Any pattern repeated over and over is bound to turn into wallpaper eventually, whether it's flowers or corpses.

A book of stories isn't a novel and can't have the simple narrative drive of a novel. I think it should still try to have a feeling of progression, of connectedness. It's like a road trip. You're staying in a different inn every night:

Minutes did not pass, collecting into hours. There was no point in thinking about time in the old way. There was only one moment and then another moment, in a string of moments that went on in a quiet, deadly procession.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. —John Adams

We have been animals that move for a lot longer than we have been animals that talk and convey concepts,

I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat.

Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

Life and values do run in cycles.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.

Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.