Quintilian Quotes

Real change happens a step at a time.

Change is incremental. Change is small.

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

Change is incremental and real change, enduring change, occurs one step at a time.

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

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

… evolution over revolution.

Change shall be without hurry, but without pause.

… 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.

I am always for change. But I believe in slow and inevitable change and not a forced one, all of a sudden.

I'm an advocate of evolutionary, not revolutionary, changes.

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.

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process.

Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

The evils which are complained of can not be eradicated at once; the work must be gradual.

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

Constant, patient reform—the only kind of reform compatible with Democratic stability—is unsatisfying.

When China’s leaders talk about reform, they mean go slowly and change a little bit as you go … you don’t want to change too fast or too thoroughly.

The Chinese move very slowly. Our customs are so fixed that it takes much time to change them.

I have always said that, more than 'big bang' reforms, it is every day what is happening, changing on the ground.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

Nature does not make leaps.