Quotes About Progression

The idea I want you to embrace is that our relationships thrive, flatline, or fail, gradually then suddenly—one conversation at a time.

But Team Policing and the Basic Car Plan had created lots and lots of new jobs for officers of staff rank. Therefore lieutenants made captain, captains made commander and commanders made deputy chief, and everyone had all the time they needed to think up new things for the working cops to do aside from catching crooks, which most of the new captains, commanders and deputy chiefs knew nothing about.

I hadn't liked him at first. He did sort of grow on you after a while. Like the cosmopolitans. Or maybe because of the cosmopolitans.

the pattern of error begetting error becomes true and deadly.

la costumbre, esa lenta e implacable apisonadora que convierte lo inadecuado en lo habitual.

Das Leben beginnt nun einmal auf der Höhe seiner Kraft, um sich von diesem Punkt aus, immer abwärts führend, seinem Ende zu nähern. Ein grober dramaturgischer Fehler.

Fashion, film, and music - all these industries have ways of putting us in a box. Ultimately my goal is to push those boundaries.

Whether artists know it or not, I think we're all a little influenced by what came before.

I've definitely grown and evolved as a person, as an artist, you know. Just in terms of my style, my taste, my influences, everything... That's a part of being an artist I think.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.

We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.

Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.

Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.

Over this year, familiarity had done its usual work, picking off the gilded paint one scratch at a time.

Sin has progressed and gained momentum; [man] seems to have lost his ability to be shocked. Behavior that was once considered abominable is now acceptable.

Nature repeats herself, or almost does: repeat, repeat, repeat, revise, revise, revise.

The Covenant of the Arc is the screenwriting law that says: Every single character in your movie must change in the course of your story. The only characters who don't change are the bad guys. But the hero and his friends change a lot.

Without contraries there is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.

Like most things that were good or bad for you, you reach a stage where what started as a happy habit turns into something of an obsession.

I suggested that one could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well, but Aunty said that one had to behave like a sunbeam, that I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.

the whole point of the Link; one item must lead you to the next.

Whether you want to or not. But the place you return to is always slightly different from the place you left. That's the rule. It can never be exactly the same." A

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?