Jane Jacobs Quotes

Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary.

It's nice when they say I inspire them, it inspires me.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

Culture affects development and development affects culture as well.

Small, daily elevations compound into massive results over time.

Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.

I've been building slow, step by step.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

Slowly would be better than not at all.

I get people stopping me on the street like twenty times a day, telling me how great it makes them feel and how it just helps them to go about their day and rebuild their lives. It means a tremendous amount.

Good is done by degrees.

It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.

In the world I live in, 'not worse' is nearly as good as 'better'.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).

I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.

Little by little does the trick.

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.