A Promotion (n.) to Governor General or Reichsminister marked, for Frank and Rosenberg, not the climax but the end of their careers — and they did not even suspect it.
Promotion (n.) to the top, among men twenty years older, unsettles the order of generations — and it was then that Schreber's psychosis declared itself.
Promotion (n.) can unhinge a man: made presiding judge at fifty-one, Schreber overworked for a month and slid back into madness.
A Promotion (n.) long wished for — to succeed one's master — can bring self-depreciation and years of melancholia the moment it is granted.
Qualitative progress (n.) is improvement in the kind or quality of something rather than an increase in its amount.
Qualitative progress (n.) is improvement you can feel before you can count it.
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Spiritual progress (n.) is beside the point; timing yourself, competing with yourself and fretting over success only make an easy thing hard.
Technical progress (n.) is not fitting one environment better but becoming able to relate two environments that are both changing.
Technical progress (n.) is the settling of a machine's inner quarrels: the penthode exists because the triode's anode was asked both to pull electrons forward and to catch them.
Technical progress (n.) could go on even if science stood still: the machine conditions its own next step, through how it runs and how its running changes its use.