Progression famous quotes

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

#Reading #Progression #Reader

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

#Effectiveness #Progression #Increase

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.
-- Andrew Luck

#Thinking #Personality #Progression

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

#Fighting #Age #Progression

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Waste #Wasting Time #Progression

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

#Feet #Dumb #Progression

Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.
-- Bruce Oldfield

#Fashion #Ideas #Progression

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

#Movement #Progression #Misconception

There's been a progression in my sound.
-- Carly Rae Jepsen

#Sound #Progression

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.
-- Charlie Parker

#Play #Lines #Progression

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

#People #Progression #Performances

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

#Earth #Progression #Exploitation

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

#Class #Effort #Progression

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.
-- Isobelle Carmody

#Insightful #Stories #Progression

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.
-- Jacqueline Bisset

#Character #Likes #Progression

The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.
-- James G. Frazer

#Goal #Infinite #Progression

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

#Thinking #Interesting #Progression

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

#Perspective #Each Day #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.
-- Lucy Liu

#Thinking #Way #Progression

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

#Song #People #Progression

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
-- Owen Feltham

#Vices #Progression

[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.
-- Reginald Fessenden

#Science #Progression #Invention

Chord progression is progression of emotions; storytelling - taking one person from one mood to the next. We are doing the same thing within a DJ set.
-- Richie Hawtin

#Next #Emotion #Progression

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

#Style #Progression #Possession

Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Opinion #Common #Progression

'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.
-- Stephen Hunter

#Cost #Horror #Progression

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

#Looks #Progression #Smooth

Change is a natural form of progression.
-- Trey Songz

#Progression #Natural #Form

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
-- William Ellery Channing

#Men #Firsts #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.
-- Young Jeezy

#Black #Progression #Feels

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.
-- Donald Richie

#Safety #Film #Progression

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.
-- Greg Yaitanes

#School #Trying #Progression

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

#Witty #Laughing #Progression