Quotes About Progression

And so your account of creation ends, 'And finally man appeared.'

With the e-reader, the whole book was on the same virtual page. One could not feel the depth of the pages on the left side increase as those of the right side diminished, the gradual progression from beginning to middle to end, the sense of where one stood in the journey of the story.

The story goes like this: he falls in love with Specter first, then he falls in love with Jenny Hill. L

As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes?

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

the development of the Christian ethic slowly eroded Christian theology. Christ destroyed Jehovah.

Darwin furthered the transformation. As the astronomer had lost the Earth in space, the biologist lost man in the infinity of time, in the long procession of transitory species that had walked the earth or swum the sea or flown the air; man became a mere line in Nature's interminable odyssey. But it was Darwin, too, who opened a way to what John Morley called "the next great task of science—to create a new religion for humanity.

Sumeria was to Babylonia, and Babylonia to Assyria, what Crete was to Greece, and Greece to Rome:

Without Contraries is no Progression.

For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.

which was no abode of the dead because there was no death, not Lion and not Sam: not held fast in earth but free in earth and not in earth but of earth, myriad yet undiffused of every myriad part, leaf and twig and particle, air and sun and rain and dew and night, acorn oak and leaf and acorn again, dark and dawn and dark and dawn again in their immutable progression and, being myriad, one...

It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.

As an immerser I progressed to the ranks I aspired to—those that granted me a certain cachet and income while keeping me from fundamental responsibilities. This is what I excelled at: the life-technique of aggregated skill, luck, laziness and chutzpah that we call floaking.

staggering out of Language, into language

People are tempted to tell you everything, with perfect accuracy, right up front, when they should be giving you just enough info to be useful, then a little more, then a little more.

What is the nature of life? Life is lines of dominoes falling. One thing leads to another, and then another, just like you'd planned. But suddenly a Domino gets skewed, events change direction, people dig in their heels, and you're faced with a situation that you didn't see coming, you who thought you were so clever.

Wasn't modernism's greatest coup to destroy the notion of progression? And yet it still comes back in history books, in dialectical materialism, in the New Age's recycled Confucianism--the hope that all of us are travelling through concentric rings of knowledge towards some greater truth. And beneath that hope, the biggest lie: that things are getting better. Portentousness is only retrospective.

The landlord called our new home a railroad apartment: each room leading to the next, like railway cars.

While telling her I realised that the story of her is much more to do with how she is ended than how she began.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking of a tightrope.

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946

El presente sólo se forma del pasado, y lo que se encuentra en el efecto estaba ya en la causa.