Step-by-Step Process Quotes

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

That's just always the way my mind has worked, is taking something that seems impossible, or too big, and then breaking it down into these pieces so that I know how to get there.

Let them up easy.

You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can't jump cliffs in a single bound.

There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.

We cannot change absolutely everything in one season.

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

I know I've got a lot more to learn, so I'm just taking it game by game.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

I will like to take one match at a time.

It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.

I try to work on the small things.

I have to write in sequence and only in sequence.

I'm just taking one match at a time.

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

People who know me would know that I take one battle at a time.

If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I'd be embarrassed.

I'm not big on reading directions. I can't do that. I'm just not from that world.