Progression Quotes - Page 9

• There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Football, Distance, Emotional

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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

  Garrett Hardin

  Moving, Earth, Exploitation

  Garrett Hardin (1995). “Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos”, p.17, Oxford University Press

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• At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a 'tendency to progression', 'adaptations from the slow willing of animals', &c! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his; though the means of change are wholly so. I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends.

  Charles Darwin

  Mean, Simple, Thinking

  Charles Darwin (1896). “Charles Darwin's Works: The life and letters of Charles Darwin... ed. by his son, Francis Darwin. 2v”

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• Too much knowledge could be a bad thing. I was lead to the Szemerédi theorem by proving a result, about squares, that Euler had already proven, and I relied on an "obvious" fact, about arithmetical progressions, that was unproved at the time. But that lead me to try and prove that formerly unproved statement- about arithmetical progressions-and that ultimately lead to the Szemerédi Theorem.

  Endre Szemeredi

  Science, Squares, Trying

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• Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard.

  Tori Amos

  Art, Book, Ideas

  "Tori Amos on Lauren Bacall, religion, and cleaning latrines". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. March 19, 2015.

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• 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, Storytelling

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• The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of all the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world; and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are co-ordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed from the inorganic to the organic from blind force to conscious intellect and will.

  Thomas Huxley

  Crush, Men, Views

  "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley. Chapter 1, p. 28, 1884.

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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

  Law, Principles, May

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Change, Doors, Inconsistency

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• What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression
  of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Taken, Humble, Technology

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1973). “Earth, Inc.”, p.20, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Song, Writing, Silence

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

  Lights

  Careers, Deals, Ups & Downs

  Source: thelala.com

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• I always want to execute and maximize off of potential, and this is a natural progression. Coming up as a youngster, I always wanted to be a rapper, but I knew that if I did everything right as a rapper, I'd end up as an actor, following the models of Ice Cube, Tupac [Shakur] and Will Smith.

  T.I.

  Rapper, Ice, Actors

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• I have felt over the years a definite progression or arc from feeling guilty about what I had done with the first one [film], because certainly there was all that fundamentalist guilt that came pouring back in.

  Wes Craven

  Years, Feelings, Guilt

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course making films is much more complicated, because you have image, sound and music to work with, not simply words.

  Nancy Kates

  Sound And Music, Media, Careers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

  Witty, Laughing, Music Is

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• 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.

  Dave Matthews

  Simple, Important, Chords

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• Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able to direct my actors and tell them where exactly they are and go with progression.

  Paul Walker

  Order, Actors, Able

  Source: comicbook.com

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• I think that having been around computers all my life - my father had brought home personal computers at a very early age in the '70s - so being around computers from a very early age perhaps I had even subconsciously seen the exponential progression of what was happening with computers.

  Barry Ptolemy

  Father, Home, Thinking

  "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009.

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• Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships - and trying to find the places where you improve on those.

  Trevor Noah

  Views, Trying, Opinion

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• One of the most encouraging things is to see that so many of these young musicians and worship leaders are really concerned with doing a good job representing the truth of Jesus in their songs, and not just concerned with creative and musical progression.

  Matt Redman

  Song, Jesus, Jobs

  "A conversation with worship leader Matt Redman". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to lysergic acid. Instant mysticism had arrived. Before the court of law, hippies demanded freedom for LSD the way early Christians demanded freedom for the Eucharist.

  William Everson

  Christian, Hippie, Marijuana

  William Everson (1988). “The Excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a Religious Figure”, p.5, Stanford University Press

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• It's just a natural progression. You're a player, then you're a coach, then you're general manager for the team, and then the next logical step for me and you would be [to become] team owner.

  Zakk Wylde

  Team, Player, Would Be

  Source: www.guitarmessenger.com

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• Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

  Albert Einstein

  Failure, Men, Infinite Intelligence

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• A dry well is not a friend of a thirsty man; and an ignorant man, of the progression!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Ignorant, Dry

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