Quotes About Progression

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked.

You don't always need the absolute latest gear. Find your piece(s) of equipment and let time evolve your ideas with that setup.

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

Sound comes to us over time. You don't get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

The development of relationship creates plot.

In a real way, eternity is merely the living of one human lifetime after another.

Only if, upon stepping into the next great realm of existence, the afterlife itself, you insist on looking backwards, of turning away from the dazzling experiences that await you in favor of clinging to the physical past. Only then is it not transcendence.

Sometimes people live first one life and then another life," her grandmother said. "First a family life and then later a whole other kind of life. That's what I'm doing.

The thing about old girlfriends, Micah reflected, is that each one subtracts something from you. You say goodbye to your first great romance and move on to the next, but you find you have less to give to the next. A little chip of you has gone missing; you're not quite so wholly there in the new relationship. And less there in the one after that, and even less in the one after that one.

It's not an accident that school is like a job, not an accident that there are supervisors and rules and tests and quality control. You do well, you get another job (the next grade), and continue to do well and you get a real job. Do poorly, don't fit in, rebel—and you are kicked out of the system.

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.

You can create dozens or even hundreds of paths for an individual to follow from the first contact until the highest level of permission is granted.

A medida que la gente va bajando por el embudo —y pasa de desconocido a amigo, de amigo a cliente, de cliente a cliente fiel—, el estatus de su confianza cambia.

Wir werden die vier Feinde in dieser Reihenfolge behandeln, weil auch der Weg der Befreiung durch die Überwindung von Ärger, Angst und Selbstbezogenheit im Allgemeinen diesen Verlauf von außen nach innen nimmt.

Life is set up to bring you every needed situation in its own right time.

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.