Quotes About Gradual

As often is the case with addictions, the fanciful notion of a gradual discontinuance only provided a comforting pretext for more sustained indulgence.

The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

To scuttle a boat you don't have to rip out the whole bottom, you just need to remove a few planks, one by one.

A creation is not a thing of the moment, instantaneously formed, but very slowly and gradually shaped out of infinitesimally small pieces. We think it is instantaneous because the process is more or less hidden and apparently mysterious. Here at last is the link between art and life which I have been seeking.

but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favour, and reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

To ACCROACH  (ACCRO'ACH)   v.a.[accrocher, Fr.]To draw to one as with a hook; to gripe, to draw away by degrees what is another's.

Yasy?ham anug?h??mi hari?ye tad-dhana? ?anai?: "I gradually take away all the wealth of those upon whom I am merciful.

In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was full of gradual, piecemeal, continuous transformation. It was full of accidents and undefineables, and things that just happened on their own. The only certainty was 'It's complicated,' whether or not unicorns tolerated your touch.

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees - As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

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 there's a lot of different factors that played into the coming out process I've had with the public. You know, it's always gradual and very individual for each queer person.

I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

'V' had just been cancelled; I was looking for a job, and the 'Homeland' script came across my desk. I loved it immediately, although I thought it would end up being discovered gradually - a slow-burner, like 'The Wire.'

Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.

Step by step and the thing is done.

One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

hard to get the full view, of the sky, of anything. But we can do it, a little at a time, a quick move of the head, up and down, to the side and back. We have learned to see the world in gasps.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Little by little does the trick.

Leadership isn't something that people hand to you. ... [i]t's a gradual process, one where you take responsibility years before you are given authority. And that's something we can teach.