Quotes About Progress

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

If you get behind in first grade, then you're behind every grade from then on.

I started to play in the fourth grade and didn't score for, like, a whole year.

You've seen players at Everton who have been built up but haven't made the grade.

I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

Getting healthy, getting into shape is a gradual process.

When change takes place gradually, it's difficult to comprehend its meaning.

When you relentlessly work, you gradually get accepted.

The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.

For the longest time, I was very conscious of the camera while doing a scene. It wouldn't seem natural. But gradually, I've become more comfortable.

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.

I've always flagged that it will take some time to gradually sell down our interest in lighting and basically pivot to be a medtech company focused entirely on health technology.

People got to know me very gradually. It was little things. It's still like that. 'That Thing you Do!' was a big thing. It's always been very gradual. Like I say, people still ask me if I'm still acting. 'I've seen all your movies. What are you doing now?' Ha ha!

Gradually, people are connecting with my music, and that means the world to me.

Commercial success won't come to us from a change in the music. It will gradually be the result of a change in the appetite of the audience.

I went to Everton, and it's levels - the higher up you get, you are under more and more scrutiny as a football player. You have to learn to deal with it at that scale and gradually progress to be able to deal with it at an even higher scale.

It took time, and it happened gradually, but by the time I started college, I felt truly comfortable with my body.

I've coached a lot of teams and moved up gradually and tried to succeed and tried to have success at every level. When that happens, you just continue to wonder if you can keep doing it one more level.

It's not like at university where you graduate. Every cyclist must start again. At the end of the season you know if you are good or not.

In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don't forget everything you've done. You build on it, but it's always there.

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one.

Apart from finding a first job, college graduates seem to adapt more easily than those with only a high school degree as the economy evolves and labor-market needs change.