quotes about Progression
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I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
-- Alberto ManguelSource : Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.36, Penguin
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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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 LuckSource : "Q&A: Colts QB Andrew Luck talks leadership, staying healthy... and acting". Interview with Eric Edholm, sports.yahoo.com. August 26, 2014.
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Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.
-- Ann-Margret -
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
-- Barbra Streisand -
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
-- Barry Diller -
Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.
-- Bruce Oldfield -
It became a lucrative misconception, that movement in any direction is progression
-- Canibus -
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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 -
Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.
-- Christian SlaterSource : "Christian Slater: Clean Slater". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. July 1, 1993.
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Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.
-- Garrett Hardin -
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
-- Harriet MartineauSource : Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.179
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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 CarmodySource : Isobelle Carmody, Nan McNab (2011). “The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)”, p.4, Allen & Unwin
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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 -
The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.
-- James G. FrazerSource : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
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I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.
-- John Denver -
Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.
-- John HurtSource : "John Hurt: 'I'd be a rubbish spy'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2011.
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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 -
People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.
-- Miranda Lambert -
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Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
-- Owen Feltham -
[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 -
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 -
My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.
-- Robert Coover -
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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 -
'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.
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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 -
Change is a natural form of progression.
-- Trey SongzSource : "Interview: Trey Songz Talks Complex Fashion Shoot and Musical Influences". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. April 17, 2010.
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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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.
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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 RichieSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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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 YaitanesSource : Source: collider.com
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My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."
-- Mike Stud