Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

— Mother Teresa

Famous Increment quotations

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.

I don’t want to make an incremental change in some technology in my life.

I want to create a whole new technology, and one that is aimed at helping humanity at all levels regardless of geography or ethnicity or age or gender.

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.

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

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.

Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.

We've reached the end of incrementalism.

Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

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

Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google.

The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the Web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We're nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

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.

I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.

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

So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

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.

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.

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments.

Sometimes you don't know it's happening.

Players will be able to adjust the volume from 1 to 100 in increments of 1.

You could play the game 100 times and have an entirely different experience.

Where big data is all about seeking correlations - and thus to make incremental changes - small data is all about causations - seeking to understand the reasons why.

The most challenging thing for a young entrepreneur is to think long-term.

When you are 22 years old, it’s hard to think in 22-year increments since that’s as long as you’ve been alive. But it’s really important to view your life as an entrepreneur as a long journey that consists of many short-term cycles.

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

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments.

And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities...?

Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.

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

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements.

They aren't trained to lead large-scale 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.

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.

If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.

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.

Steady, sustained, and incremental spiritual progress produces the fruit of steadfastness-and helps us to reduce the disparity between what we know and what we do. Testimony is strengthened and conversion unto the Lord is deepened through small and simple things done well over time.

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

Having acquired an espresso machine as good as a solid e-61 and a very good grinder, your incremental dollars will be best spent on either buying truly badass coffee, or setting up a roasting setup yourself that with lots of effort will allow you to produce high end roasted coffee.

Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.