John C. Reilly Quotes

I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that's good for me because I really got to take my time.

I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time.

I'm not a 'big picture' sort of guy. I prefer making small improvements each day.

I love hearing my song on the radio the first time, but when it comes on again, I change the station. I already have so much of the spotlight on me. I don't need any more.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

Have patience, Radicals—Rome wasn't burnt in a day.

Real change happens a step at a time.

… evolution over revolution.

… many think that changes and reforms can take place in a short time. I believe that we always need time to lay the foundations for real, effective change.

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

We cannot change absolutely everything in one season.

I want to start with small but definitive change; the big picture is too abstract.

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

You know that you can't go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it's so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.

Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, 'Oh, this pace is terrible!' But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.

Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

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.

Great issues develop from small beginnings.

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.

In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.

If you want to effect change, start small.

Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.