Top 138 Incremental Quotes & Sayings

Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.

In general, there will likely be an expanding market around mobility management services that could offer incremental job growth.

No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.

Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission.

I like incremental improvements or at least seeing where you're going to go and really being able to understand what's feasible at the time.

For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are so beautiful and elegant and so apparently purposeful, they could only have been made by an intelligent designer. But [Charles] Darwin provided a simpler explanation. His way is a gradual, incremental improvement starting from very simple beginnings and working up step by tiny incremental step to more complexity, more elegance, more adaptive perfection.

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

One way to make tough decisions is to take incremental steps that don't commit you to anything yet.

I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful.

One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

Peer review is fine, as long as you're making incremental improvements to a technology.

Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.

Our goal has always been to make broadcasters on TwitchTV feel like they own their channel pages, and we're continuing to make incremental improvements there.

Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure.

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

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.

In terms of my career, it's been a lot of incremental improvement slowly over time.

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

I love writing in compressed time periods because the act of survival in the midst of panic and fear, that's where true heroism comes. If you have a uniform, and you're expected to do things, it's a sort of incremental heroism.

Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say.

History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.

The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.

I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building track. The original classification scheme, years ago, distinguished radical from incremental change. The theory said that established firms managed incremental change well, but would be expected to founder when their industry encountered a radical change.

An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

Working with film directors helps me grow, but nothing like the incremental jumps I make onstage.

Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.

You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge.

When I'm working on a short story, I could duck into a bathroom at a crowded party and write a scene, which is to say I can work in a very incremental way.

The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.

There are no 'holds.' Everyday you're either willing to buy more at the current price, or, if you aren't, you should redeploy the capital to something you believe does deserve incremental capital.

School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.

There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values.

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

The maximalist demand of a complete ban on weapons, and the 'incremental steps' towards disarmament are both jammed. Will advancing IHL help both of these processes?

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

Everyone has all the power of a bank branch in the palm of their hand. And so in that world of software at scale, theoretically the incremental unit cost of something at scale approaches zero.

Shun the incremental and go for the leap.

Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements.

Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.

In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.

Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.

While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.

I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic.

The incremental approach without a strategy doesn't improve the strategy.

Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.

Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.

A platform is essentially a business model that thrives because of the participation and value added from third parties with only incremental effort from the owner of the platform.

I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental.

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself.

Under stable and incremental conditions, a free-market economy spurs entrepreneurship, ensures efficiency, and generates wealth. Those conditions no longer apply.

But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.