Definition of Progression

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Progression

The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward.

Course; passage; lapse or process of time.

Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic.

A regular succession of tones or chords; the movement of the parts in harmony; the order of the modulations in a piece from key to key.

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Progression Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Progression Translations

progression in German is Verlauf, Reihe (math.), Fortschreiten
progression in Hungarian is folyamat

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