Gradual Development Quotes

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly chipping away at, down and down and down, closer and closer to what would be the body. I think what happened with cancer, was that I woke up out of nine hours of surgery and I was body. I was just body.

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

Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our ancestors, there was a gradual expansion of the brain; there was an expansion of the complexity of tools.

Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

They are taking steps, but they are baby steps.

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

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

You cannot force spiritual things. A testimony is not thrust upon you; it grows. And a testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large. We become taller in our testimony like we grow in physical stature and hardly know it is happening, because it comes by growth.

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

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.