Quotes About Progression

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. - Frank Outlaw

An audience will remain interested if the story is advancing in some sort of organised manner, but they want to see routines interrupted, and the action continuing between the actors.

That was my brother: it was like he was his own species, one that had sneaked a couple thousand extra years in while evolution was looking the other way.

According to Johnson's theory, Sarah would have been better served by first mastering a promising niche—a task that may take years—and only then turning her attention to seeking a mission.

Sleeplessness creates a vicious negative spiral with bipolar, causing sleeplessness and sleeplessness contributing to bipolar. Sleep management is important in trying to hinder the progression of bipolar disorder.

The fool is the precursor to the savior.

Isn't amazing how life is one thing and then becomes something else?

They evolved into birds.

And every philosophy of history bears in itself the seed of a theology.

The Spirit's work in the renewal of things proceeds according to a fixed, systematic method, in certain distinct stages.

Evil isn't born, it's made. One thought and action at a time." I paused for effect. "Take a good look at what you've made.

The winning strategy does not just change as we move from stage to stage, it actually reverses the prior strategy.

Now up, now doun, as boket in a welle.

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

Freshman year, kissing and deep French kissing. Then sophomore year, I'd want to be making out with her. By sixteen we should be having oral sex, and by seventeen or eighteen, full frontal sex. Of course, it could go faster than that, but basically, he said, that was the standard progression. Before I finished high school, I should be having full frontal sex with her.

How had this weird idea been conceived, how had it grown until it seemed inevitable?

Sex generally makes them intae real relationships, or ends them. Ye go backwards or forwards after shagging, but maintaining the status quo is difficult.

The sculptor is master of time; he can change his subjects forward or back.

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.

Earthmen may even rule at Trantor for a generation, but their children will become Trantorians, and in their turn will look down upon the remnant on Earth.

Life is a successive symphony of losses.

Circulation ceases first at the outer edges. It will take a while yet for the decay to reach the heart.

Do you want the truth behind it all?" "Go ahead, Cutie. You're amusing." "The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans. From now on, I serve the Master.

I grew up listening to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and every record those bands put out was very unique in its own right. I have that mentality. too: if a song sounds like something I've already done, then I'll throw it out, because I want each record to be a progression.