Progression Quotes

Change is a natural form of progression.

It became a lucrative misconception, that movement in any direction is progression

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

What you become directly influences what you get.

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.

Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.

The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

A career is a progression of ups and downs, how you deal with them and how you bounce back.

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

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.

I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.

It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.

It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.

I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head

Change is the watchword of progression.

You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

I think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle eights and things that more traditional writers write and I don't usually employ.

There's been a progression in my sound.

Without contraries there is no progression.

Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound. But I can't find myself in a situation where our band Swans is doing typical chord progressions - it just seems cliché to me. Even changing chords sounds like a cliché sometimes, though it happens occasionally in our music. But you find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.

My days of being a full time wrestler are over. Nothing wrong with that, that's just the general progression of your career and your life.

'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.

I've always had a preference for digital, all the way. I grew up through video and camcorders, and I was part of the VHS generation. I made all my stuff in high school on video, and worked for public access. Staying in digital is a very familiar, very natural progression of the things that I've worked in before, and I always try to break as much new ground as I can.

The melodies are always the most important part to me. I am pulled more to the groove than the chord progression. After you find the groove, you find the most simple chord progressions and then sit inside that groove.

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

I think it seems like a natural progression to go into directing, and I hope to explore more of it, because it's very exciting and a really good way to collide all the things that you've known and experienced in the business and put them all into one.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

Inconsistency is a great door for the change and for the progression! Never hesitate to be inconsistent!

Progression: you can start from where you are.

The distinction between East and West is that the Western novel is very organized, it's very logical, there's a logical progression, there's a chronological progression, and there's a safety in that. Whereas if you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

All progression is in the relative world.

If you want to be friend of progression, be the enemy of fear!

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

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.