Progression Quotes

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick

Music, Feelings, Film

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
William Blake

Love, Hate, Human

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

Work, Geometric, According

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
Margaret Fuller

Feeling, Lost, Bright

Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.
Thierry Henry

Hurt, Yourself, Sleep

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

Work, Character, Everyone

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

Time, Waste, Myths

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

Change, Songs, Reflect

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Meryl Streep

Together, Actor, Process

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
Francoise Sagan

Life, Time, Writing

When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.
Jamie Foxx

Business, Person, Chance

I remember getting this scrapbook that this girl made, that I actually gave to my mom to hold onto because she has a 'Twilight' shrine in their house in Florida. It was just this scrapbook of me, starting with 'Twilight,' and the whole progression of me and my career throughout that, and other stuff that I had done in between.
Ashley Greene

Mom, Girl, Career

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.
Rupert Everett

Business, Blame, Become

I became more confident within myself and matured as a person and become a little bit more opinionated - maybe the lads might say a little bit too opinionated for their liking but that is just a natural progression for a player.
Kenny Cunningham

Person, Become, Might

Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
Francoise Sagan

Life, Time, Less

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.
Jodie Foster

Parents, Older, Happens

I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
Taraji P. Henson

Forward, Control, Negative

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

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.
Duncan Sheik

Music, Home, Down

'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

Money, Movies, Almost

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
Frank Black

Song, Inspires, Lyrics

If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?
Estelle Morris

Education, Work, Health

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

Felt, Hopefully

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
George Murray

Success, Money, Poetry

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

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
Jon Ronson

Natural, Maybe, Stories

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

Through, Place, Takes

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
John L. Phillips

Career, Goals, Happened

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, High, Born

It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling.
David Strathairn

Music, Lose, Off

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