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Quotes About Gradual

I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin a series of gradual steps toward new transportation and energy policies, livable cities, and more humane, efficient transit systems.
~ Stewart Udall
The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
~ Anne Lamott
My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.
~ Nancy Garden
I mention this because that's how the world changes. It's either so quick that we never know what hit us, or so gradual that we don't notice.
~ K.J. Parker
I mention this because that's how the world changes. It's either so quick that we never know what hit us, or so gradual that we don't notice. It's only later, when books are written and scholars decide what mattered and what didn't, that red lines are drawn
~ K.J. Parker
I think in order to find your audience and let them get to know you, you have to introduce yourself a little at a time.
~ Lari White
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms… this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
~ Francis Bacon
Crime is incurable, save by that gradual process of adaptation to the social state which humanity is undergoing. Crime is the continual breaking out of the old unadapted nature -- the index of a character unfitted to its conditions -- and only as fast as the unfitness diminishes can crime diminish.
~ Herbert Spencer
It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.
~ Townsend Harris
It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.
~ Peter Stuyvesant
In other words, they have failed to find the paleontological equivalent of the numerous finely graded intermediate colors (Pendleton blue, dusty rose, gun barrel gray, magenta, etc.) that interior designers covet.
~ Stephen C. Meyer
FIGURE 2.7 The origin of animals. Darwinian theory (top) predicts gradual evolutionary change in contrast to the fossil evidence (bottom), which shows the abrupt appearance of the major animal groups.
~ Stephen C. Meyer
There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.
~ Gavin DeGraw
I'm slow at everything I do.
~ Warren Beatty
My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.
~ Juliana Hatfield
I've been building slow, step by step.
~ Ty Dolla Sign
I work very slowly.
~ Charles Ray
I think honestly doing it this way, getting slowly, slowly better every year, improving little things, I don't think I've missed anything, made any big jumps.
~ Cameron Norrie
Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.
~ Bertha von Suttner
I made nothing happen very slowly.
~ Gary McCord
People get to know me slowly and over the course of time. I'll probably still be a newcomer when I'm 60.
~ Richard C. Armitage
I want to change my appearance slowly - very slowly.
~ Mason Ramsey
If you adapt your diet and exercise regime gradually you can keep it up long term. Often people begin with a big push and burn out quickly. Don't suddenly go mad a week before your holiday. Start early and build up slowly: you'll feel the benefits much more.
~ Chris Hoy
Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual . In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than others, for example. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time.
~ Terry Pratchett