Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
I would not go so far as to say that we are completely changing our outlook.
Change is incremental and real change, enduring change, occurs one step at a time.
We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.
Demographic transformations are dramas in slow motion.
Tectonic shifts in American politics take time—often a long time.
But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.
But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.
Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.
I suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I've not done any for a good long while now. I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry. I didn't hate it, but I was yearning to do something different. I was on a gradient. It was a gradual thing.
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
I think transitions are never that noticeable, but they are always on their way. It has to do with distance and accessibility. People call it mellowing, but I think it's how available you are toward other people, or how much you distance yourself.
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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.
I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?
It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.
History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.
The American economy is like a huge aircraft carrier. It doen't turn fast. That's why you can't judge a new president by what happens in his early months.
Change is incremental. Change is small.
Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.
People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.
Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
