Will Smith Quotes

You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there… You say ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

If you do something every day a little, the end is going to be big.

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

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

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.

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.

There’s nothing you’ve ever been successful at that you didn’t work on every day.

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.

Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.

Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.

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.

It's important to think big, but you've got to work small.

If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you're trying to master a new language, try it one word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you'll find that no job is all that intimidating.

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.