Slow Development Quotes

No great thing is created suddenly.

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

I started growing late, so I was a late developer.

Rome wasn't built in A.D.

No great thing happens suddenly.

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

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

What's nurtured slowly grows well.

Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged.

Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.

...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done.

All habits gather by unseen degrees.

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

I was a late bloomer in the music business.

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.