Gradual Quotes

“There was no sudden, striking, and emotional transition. Like the warming of a room or the coming of daylight. When you first notice them they have already been going on for some time.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“One doesn’t become a leader in a day. It’s a gradual process that begins at birth and continues for the rest of our lives.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Crumbling is not an instant's Act
A fundamental pause
Dilapidation's processes
Are organized Decays.

'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul
A Cuticle of Dust
A Borer in the Axis
An Elemental Rust—

Ruin is formal—Devil's work
Consecutive and slow—
Fail in an instant, no man did
Slipping—is Crash's law.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Too much hurry will bury your goals. Too much haste will make you waste. Too quick race will cripple your pace. Be patient.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“There is no need to rush in life. Just with one word at a time, your sweet life history will be written boldly in capitals and highlighted for easy access. Be sure you are passing the test of patience!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Cuvier, in his 'Theory of the Earth,' first published in 1812, based his conclusions on his unparalleled correlative research in stratigraphy, comparative anatomy, and palaeontology. At that time he wrote: 'Every part of the earth, every hemisphere, every continent, exhibits the same phenomenon. [...] There has, therefore, been a succession of variations in the economy of organic nature [...] the various catastrophes which have disturbed the strata [...] have given rise to numerous shiftings of this (continental) basin. [...] It is of much importance to mark, that these repeated irruptions and retreats of the sea have neither been slow nor gradual; on the contrary, most of the catastrophes which occasioned them have been sudden; and this is specially easy to be proved, with regard to the last of these catastrophes. [...] I agree, therefore, [...] in thinking, that if anything in geology be established, it is, that the surface of our globe has undergone a great and sudden revolution, the date of which [...] cannot be [...] much earlier than five or six thousand years ago [...] (also), one preceding revolution at least had put (the continents) under water [...] perhaps two or three irruptions of the sea.”
― Chan Thomas, The Adam & Eve Story: The History of Cataclysms

“Everything good, everything genuine, comes in sips and little portions.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“It doesn’t matter how slow you are growing. What matters most is the fact that your growth is happening.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“Respect your smallest version, for it is the root through which you were nurtured to become your greatest version.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions