Incrementally Quotes

#1. This was the pivotal insight of the Scientific Revolution: that the advancement of knowledge depends on current theories collapsing in the face of new insights and discoveries. In this model of progress, errors do not lead us away from the truth. Instead, they edge us incrementally toward it.

Kathryn Schulz

#2. I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.

Jen Pollock Michel

#3. He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headboard, or a dark shape dissolving in soap. As a net is no more than holes tied together, they were bonded by what was no longer there. (ARC p. 63)

Anthony Marra

#4. Ah realise now thit death is usually a process, rather than an
event. People generally die by degrees, incrementally. They rot away slowly in homes and hoespitals,
or places like this.

Irvine Welsh

#5. The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.

Tom Peters

#6. He was losing her incrementally ... As a web is no more than holes woven together, they were bonded by what was no longer there.

Anthony Marra

#7. Emotions don't arrive intact. Shards injure you incrementally, so small at first you don't notice them. Over time, the damage builds and one day you realise the nicks and cuts have become gaping wounds. Worse still, they've become the very thing that defines you.

Nigel Jay Cooper

#8. Tactical catastrophes are rarely the outcome of a single poor decision. Small compromises incrementally close off options until a commander is forced into actions he would never choose freely.

Nathaniel Fick

#9. They (teenage boys)don't really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Rob Lowe

#10. I would advise anyone who is at the start of a rest ritual like the Sabbath, to take it slowly and grow incrementally into it. Recognize that it will be hard at first. It's a discipline but then it is a true and deep joy.

Erica Brown

#11. The value of assets often increases exponentially while the value of your labor only increases incrementally.

Robert Kiyosaki

#12. The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move towards universal egalitarianism.

Max Horkheimer

#13. I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

Adam Savage

#14. Writing a thesis is like writing a book, working incrementally with the professor is a communication exercise that assumes the existence of an audience,

Umberto Eco

#15. Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

Thomas Sowell

#16. Or maybe it was too late, and I had already chosen, inadvertently and incrementally, to be something else.

Ariel Levy

#17. A business owner can become rich exponentially and people who work for wages become rich incrementally.

Robert Kiyosaki

#18. What Microsoft is really good at is endlessly iterating and revving - incrementally improving things that already exist - and those things that already exist are generally acquired from the outside.

Alan Cooper

#19. You're not just trying to do something marginally, incrementally better. You're doing something that is a fundamental paradigm shift, that will have exponential impact. That means it's harder to do, but ultimately, if it's successful, the impact it has is far greater.

Steve Case

#20. You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.

Seth Godin

#21. From the first time I did a movie, people have said, 'Oh, it's all going to change now.' And it would change, but very incrementally. I think I prefer that to some big explosion of fame all of the sudden.

John C. Reilly

#22. ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably.

Tony Dovale

#23. My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me.

John Allison

#24. It is possible that the digital world may change the need for physical branches. We will continue to add branches incrementally, but we will reach a point - whether it is 1,500, 1,800 or 2,000 branches - where we will say enough is enough.

Uday Kotak

#25. Perhaps it's human nature, or just corporate nature, but most people tend to think incrementally rather than transformationally or galactically.

Eric Schmidt

#26. Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.

Sharon Weil

#27. Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.

Astro Teller

#28. The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play.

Will Wright

#29. I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.

Carrie Brownstein

#30. Kanban is not a software development lifecycle methodology or an approach to project management. It requires that some process is already in place so that Kanban can be applied to incrementally change the underlying process.

David J. Anderson

#31. I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

Patrick Marber

#32. My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

Thomas Vilsack

#33. My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.

Edmund Phelps