Quotes About Progression

and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.

It would be idle to say that life is a steady progression in happiness. But it is most certain that in the natural course of things a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

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, nothing at all.

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Time is eternity begun.

I paint from the top down. First the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.

He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

Autumn to winter, winter into spring. Spring, into summer, summer into fall, - So rolls the changing year, and so we change; -Motion so swift, we know not that we move.

Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than 2,000,000,000 years, asexual reproduction was the rule. You know, if you were a creature, you just separated into two clones.

Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

To say that memory was a lane you could walk along, a path to follow, a linear progression you embarked on from start to finish, was way off base. After this past year, she had decided it was more like a piano keyboard, and the musical notes her mind played in the form of moving-picture images were a pick-and-choose determined more by the sheet music of her mourning than the well-founded logic of her decision to leave Caldwell.

Each of the CDs prior to 'Flirting With Twilight' were more like roller-coaster rides.

In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,' but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson.

I can think of the number of people who were like, 'I will never get a cellphone because I don't want people calling me all the time. And I will never get on Facebook because I don't want to share that stuff with people. And Twitter, that's not for me.' And this is just the natural progression of things.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

In high school I wore No. 8, in college I wore No. 5, and five plus three is eight and five minus three is two, you know? Addition and subtraction.