Anne Lamott Quotes

I take things one step at a time.

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

I like to do things that are step by step. It takes experience to get to the next level. And you have to put your heart into it.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.

I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.

I believe in taking things slow, one step at a time.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

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

You don't have to solve every problem at once.

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

You just do it one step at a time.

But, a lot of people thought that I came into AEW to go right into the main event and right to the top of the mountain and get all the titles thrown on you and push, push, push, push. Not the case, exactly.

The most important thing is to take it game by game. I've always done that my whole career. Game by game, step by step, and not looking too far into the future.

Everything happens at one step at a time.

You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can't jump cliffs in a single bound.

You can't skip a step and assume you're going to get to where you want to be.

Overcome obstacles one at a time: Sometimes the end goal becomes too daunting, so take things one step at a time and overcome each obstacle as you get to it.

People who know me would know that I take one battle at a time.

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Nothing happens without focus. Don't try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time.

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