#gradual

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#audience #composer #concerts #could #creative

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#amount #appalled #become #blunted #desire

Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#another #aware #became #broke #communication

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#driven #emergency #gradually #itself #make

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#aspirations #banks #because #begin #community

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#alabama #biologically #evolution #freshman #freshman year

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#construction #courses #demonstrated #design #development

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#did #education #elevation #emancipation #father

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#believing #convenient #fundamentally #gradually #grew

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#bitterness #climb #enthusiasm #floor #fulfill