Theodore Melfi Quotes

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

Real change happens a step at a time.

Change is incremental and real change, enduring change, occurs one step at a time.

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.

Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say.

Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up.

I think you have to improve every day a little bit so you don't have one day where there's a big thing coming.

I'm an advocate of evolutionary, not revolutionary, changes.

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

I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

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

Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

Slowly would be better than not at all.

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

True progress is slow but sure.