Stepwise Quotes

#1. As stories are told and retold, they evolve. They come to emphasize individuals, not organizations; to celebrate a flash of insight over stepwise improvements; and to exaggerate obstacles while downplaying institutional support.

Chip Heath

#2. During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

Niklaus Wirth

#3. Being digital-ready is an overarching approach via building a set of "digital -flavored" cultures and taking a series of stepwise practices.

Pearl Zhu

#4. It's the worst of bad manners to ridicule the small gesture ... Small, stepwise changes in personal habits aren't trivial. Ultimately they will, or won't, add up to having been the thing that mattered.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

Niklaus Wirth

#6. By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

Nikola Tesla

#7. The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Sarah Fielding

#8. Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

Irvin D. Yalom

#9. Do you know what gives a woman most pleasure within marriage? 'Sex'? ..No, making food. Watching her man eat

Paulo Coelho

#10. Maybe not insane, just stupid. "Eighteen. She moved us when I was still and infant. I thought everyone knew all about the nosoul."
He winced. "You shouldn't call yourself a nosoul. New doesn't mean you don't have a soul. The Soul Teller would have know the day you were born.

Jodi Meadows

#11. Drug-war forfeiture laws are frequently used to allow those with assets to buy their freedom, while drug users and small-time dealers with few assets to trade are subjected to lengthy prison terms.

Michelle Alexander

#12. If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

#14. The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

David Weber

#15. Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.

Brian Setzer

#16. Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

Gautama Buddha

#17. In a sense, the market, by expecting a fall in prices, discounts that fall and makes it happen right away instead of later. Expectations speed up future price reactions.

Murray Rothbard

#18. If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises!

Nguyen Van Thieu

#19. Let the heart be thy heavens.

Lailah Gifty Akita