Chrystia Freeland Quotes

When change takes place gradually, it's difficult to comprehend its meaning.

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

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

It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Growth becomes less important than stability; we have to give people changes slowly.

Change is incremental. Change is small.

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.

A person can't change all at once.

Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you.

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

Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.

Every now and then a little bit of change never hurts.

If you throw a frog in boiling water, he'll just hop out. But if you put him in warm water and slowly amp up the temperature, he won't notice and end up boiled.

Change can't be a compulsion. It has to happen organically.

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

I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.

The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament)

No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.

If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.