Regression Quotes

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backward.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.

If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.

Statistics is the plural of anecdote.

My career has been two steps forward and three steps back.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.

I was a human rights lawyer for 20 years, I believed those values of dignity, equality and non-discrimination were a given. believed the only question in my lifetime would be - how much further do we extend those values? I did not think in my lifetime we'd actually be having an argument about those values.

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.

I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's.

Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.

Going back to the past is not productive.

One step forward, two steps back ... It happens in the lives of individuals, and it happens in the history of nations and in the development of parties.

In a democracy sometimes you go forwards and sometimes you go backward.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

At 20 years old, I was better at playing with toys than I was as a kid.

Statistics is the grammar of science.