Quotes About Progression

Going from sharing a one-bedroom place to living in a loft to two people living in a house to me having my own place by myself has kind of mirrored my career... small steps to bigger, to bigger, to now having a steady job.

I feel like it's a natural progression for two people in love to talk about having children and taking that next step in creating a family.

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.

In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here.

While there is a typical introduction song for the hero, there are songs that represent each phase of the characters' journey.

I'm a typical dirt racer that wants to go try different lines. When the line goes to the top of the racetrack, I feel like I'm a little bit better.

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

Um, I think every role, whether in TV or film, has a part in building a career and relationships.

As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.

A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.

You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

History is the same story with different costumes.

Isn't it funny how we all will end up? Best friends today, communicating via internet tomorrow. Crush today, dancing at their weddings tomorrow.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life.

They become what they think. We will become [only] by [degrees].

Success is not success without a successor.

A cool thing is that stuff can always get worse and it usually does

Each moment follows inexorably from the previous one and is followed inexorably by the next, links forged in a causal chain.