A Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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Thomas B. Macaulay
British - Politician
October 25, 1800 - December 28, 1859

Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays.

Francis Ford Coppola

Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.

Ian Mcewan

To make the quickest progress, you don't have to take huge leaps. You just have to take baby steps-and keep on taking them. In Japan, they call this approach kaizen, which literally translates as 'continual improvement.' Using kaizen, great and lasting success is achieved through small, consistent steps. It turns out that slow and steady is the best way to overcome your resistance to change.

Marci Shimoff

The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s.

Martin Rees

The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.

Seth Godin

The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.

Steve Martin

Remember that small steps can create giant leaps over time, so never think of any financial or spending matter as a small one.

David Bach

Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.

Grove Karl Gilbert

Take giant leaps. Too many companies are into incremental innovation. The only thing that moves markets is violent turns. Major differences. Don't get caught in the trap of small steps.

Michael J. Silverstein

Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

Richard Pascale

The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.

Robert Genn

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

Erik Erikson

History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.

Paul Rogat Loeb

Sometimes we make progress in leaps. And sometimes we make them in small steps.

Wilson Cruz

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The main object of the work was to present such a survey of the advances already made in physical knowledge, and of the mode in which they have been made, as might serve as a real and firm basis for our speculations concerning the progress of human knowledge, and the processes by which sciences are formed.

William Whewell

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