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Quotes About Progression

At each step biochemical triggers and feedbacks determine which of the alternative developmental pathways among several possibles a group of cells will actually follow.
~ Arthur Koestler
Nonetheless, everyone desires to achieve old age, that is to say a condition in which one can say: 'Today it is bad, and day by day it will get worse – until at last the worst of all arrives.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The body's decline creeps like a vine. Day to day, the changes can be imperceptible. You adapt. Then something happens that finally makes it clear that things are no longer the same.
~ Atul Gawande
A young doctor is not so young nowadays; you typically don't start in independent practice until your midthirties. We
~ Atul Gawande
It seems like maybe we tried to sleep normally a long time ago, when Bentley was a puppy. But then he gradually moved from his little bed to the floor next to our bed. And then from the floor to the foot of the bed. And then from the foot to next to me. And now from next to me to between us, under the covers, with his head on a pillow next to ours.
~ Augusten Burroughs
A film is -or should be- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the motion, the meaning, all that comes later.
~ Stanley Kubrick
The individual stories of saltwater slavery form the antithesis of historical narrative, for they feature not an evolving plot of change over time, but rather a tale of endless repetition that allows no temporal progression. Every protagonist was a pioneer, blazing a trail on the same ground traveled by predecessors in saltwater slavery, but without the benefit of historical memory. It is a narrative in which time seems to stand still.
~ Stephanie E. Smallwood
Five million years was plenty of time to forget, as you evolved or devolved or whatever the hell.
~ Stephen Baxter
Segunda ley de la termodinámica]. Según esta ley, el desorden o la entropía aumenta siempre con el tiempo. En otras palabras, se trata de una forma de la ley de Murphy: las cosas van a peor.
~ Stephen Hawking
The laws of science determine the evolution of the universe, given its state at one time.
~ Stephen Hawking
Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
The history of life is a story of massive removal followed by differentiation within a few surviving stocks, not the conventional tale of steadily increasing excellence, complexity, and diversity.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Por qué el origen de la vida pluricelular se dio en forma de un corto pulso a través de tres faunas radicalmente diferentes , y no como un aumento lento y continuo de complejidad? La historia de la vida es infinitamente fascinante, infinitamente curiosa, pero ciertamente no es la sustancia de nuestros pensamientos y esperanzas usuales.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
~ Stephen King
Each story provides a beginning, a middle and an end, the trick is, never seperate them through the chapters or you'll miss the meaning of the entire book.
~ Nikki Rowe
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
~ Honore de Balzac
Love is the greatest force on earth to resist, limit and ultimately halt evil's deadly progression.
~ James Robison
All things come into being by conflict of opposites. —HERACLITUS,1 C. 500 BCE   Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. —WILLIAM BLAKE,2 C. 1790
~ Jonathan Haidt
People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.
~ Jonathan Mayhew
becoming better off economically seemed to make people less satisfied.
~ Jonathan Rauch
Let's have the baddish one first,' George said. 'I prefer my misery to come at me in stages, so I can acclimatize on the way.
~ Jonathan Stroud
So, naturalists observe, a fleaHath smaller fleas that on him prey;And these have smaller still to bite 'em;And so proceed ad infinitum.Thus every poet, in his kind,Is bit by him that comes behind.
~ Jonathan Swift
Tutto ciò che appartiene all'ordine spirituale progredisce attraverso le morti e le successive resurrezioni, e non c'è più nulla che conti quando manca al cuore questo assoluto dell'amore
~ Emmanuel Mounier
Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.
~ Eric Bana