Quotes About Progression

Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!

There are so many things I'd like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

Progress is the life-style of man.

Gypsy [Rose Lee] wasn't a linear person, and she didn't live life in a linear fashion. She was relentlessly self-inventing, and moved backward as often as she moved forward.

I think it's important that your first film be your worst film, that one's life trajectory should go up.

For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.

For nothing ever ends, really; stories lead to other stories, journeys across a thousand miles of ocean lead to journeys across a continent, and the meanings and interpretations of these stories are legion. 'Origins' are simply where we choose to pick up the story, dictating (and dictated by) what kind of story it is we wish to tell. 'Outcomes' are where we wearily draw to a close.

Y cómo todos esos dolores acumulados habían evolucionado con los años hacia la locura.

There are some Men of one, some but of two Syllogisms, and no more; and others that can but advance one step farther.

In a seven-tone scale the eighth note is the octave, twice the pitch of the first note, and so signals the movement to a new level. This may be why, in religious symbolism, the eighth step is often associated with spiritual evolution or salvation.

A man's life, Choje taught his monks, did not move in a linear progression, with each day an equal chit on the calendar of existence. Rather it moved from defining moment to defining moment, marked by the decisions that roiled the soul.

Nothing is ever over," said Jean. "You thread things on your life and think you've finished with them, but you haven't because it's like beads on a string and they come round again....

January seems like a year ago.

So life goes on, I thought. (And now I think: It goes on, until it doesn't.)

So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.