Subtle Shifts Quotes

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you.

I knew I wasn't going back to Brooklyn... I never knew exactly. I just kinda - you work with these guys every day. You see the same players, you see the same coaching staff, you see the same trainers every day. So when they start to act a little different, you recognize it... I could feel it.

Ultimately it's the simple things that make a difference.

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.

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

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.

I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless.

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.

Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.