Douglas Booth Quotes

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

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.

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you.

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

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

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

I'm a late developer in everything. I have a fast mind and fast metabolism, and I'm an intense worker, but in terms of life development, I'm way behind.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on a stage with Mel Brooks, I'd have thought you were off your head. But these things can happen.

Is a land born in one day? Is a nation brought forth at once?

If you had told me ten years ago that I would be able to go and make out with Will Forte one day and then Woody Harrelson the next, it would have blown my mind.

You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.

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

Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say.

I think the best things are the ones that happen organically and take a while because nothing really happens overnight if you think about it.

Now I'm 30; I'm starting to think I'd love a family. I think it will happen one day.

Making small changes every week over a few months will result in huge changes.

Change is incremental. Change is small.

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring, straightforward work of getting a couple of people interested and building a slightly bigger organization and carrying out the next move and suffering frustration and finally getting somewhere. That's how the world changes.

True progress is slow but sure.