Gradual Process Quotes

No great thing is created suddenly.

Plant breeding has been going on for millennia and it's a gradual process.

Look at the Weimar Republic and their hyperinflation in the early '20s. It didn't happen overnight. I've used the analogy, it's a lot like soybeans: you plant 'em, you wait. Conditions take some time. You need some sun; you need some water, but ultimately things start to grow, and are we in that phase or not?

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered in light of later events.

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

Democracy is built from the bottom up, one step at a time.

The total loss of hearing was a process that lasted more than a decade, but it was sufficiently gradual for me to attend Sydney Boys' High School and to profit from the teaching there.

There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.

Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.

Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.

When I came to Cambridge, I was involved in the ward for a little bit, but I did have a very gradual process of trying to work out what I thought a good life consisted of.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

You can't suddenly say, 'I want a brand new habit tomorrow,' and expect it to be easy and effortless.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles, and it must be taken one step at a time.

No great thing happens suddenly.

Generally, people don't change their minds about fundamentally deeply held beliefs; it doesn't happen in an instant - it's a process.

The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another.

Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.

There's no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life.

The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man and gradually works its way out. And it builds a nation from the bottom up.

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.