Anne Grant Quotes

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

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

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.

We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.

All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

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).

A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.

Making small changes every week over a few months will result in huge changes.

Everyone has the answer. Everyone has this. You just got to move slowly. You get good little bits of advice and go from there.

Change is incremental. Change is small.

If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.

Slowly would be better than not at all.

One person at a time, one company at a time.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.

. . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One is to construct an ideal goal, so that incremental changes can be judged by whether they move the institutional structure toward or away from that ideal. The other reason is very different. It is so that if a crisis requiring or facilitating radical change does arise, alternatives will be available that have been carefully developed and fully explored.

It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments. . . .[Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated.

Little changes and little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

If you want to effect change, start small.

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.