Quotes About Progression

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.

When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.

I really enjoy a variety of different work, and what I've just done may sometimes determine what I choose to do next.

Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.

I did 'The Commish' and an episode of 'Neon Rider,' and then I got the series called 'Street Justice,' which I ended up doing about 18 episodes of.

In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along.

One of the strengths of the 'Resident Evil' game franchise is that they keep changing it up.

Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.

I hope to always keep stretching myself and not stay in one box or lane.

I organise my work in the form of a daily diary. Each chapter is strictly chronological but is also monothematic - say, a war, a set of peace negotiations, a joust.

I admit TV is a far cry from the films that I started my career with, like 'Ek Doctor Ki Maut.' It's like reading Chekov and then going on to a comic strip.

It's all a progression towards hopefully one day making a record that can be the definitive you can offer. Some bands come in with that at first, and the great bands never really stray from that. I want to earn my stripes.

It's a constant progression, and as long as you're constantly striving to be better, you're headed in the right direction.

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.

I'm a stickler for structure. So I tend to make sure I'm hitting certain points in the script and that I'm progressing and moving things along. You know, are the characters keeping the plot moving along? And are they true, and do I know their motivations?

I think the earlier stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest. Particularly because the person knows that they are losing awareness. They're aware that they're losing awareness, and you see them struggling.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.