"make small steps" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to suggest to someone that it is best to take one step at a time to achieve a certain goal. For example, "If you want to reach your goal, make small steps and eventually you will get there."
"I'm trying to make small steps toward progress".
I was 22. Then I slowly started to make small steps".
If we each pick one project, and make small steps forward, in the long run we can get there.
And it's not necessarily failure at the end, but how do we make small steps and take small risks early that don't lead to big failure later on?
Google Brain researcher Pallavi Baljekar noted at a conference talk on Sunday, December 2, that the first-year competition winners were able to make small steps toward more inclusive systems.
In negotiating sessions over the last three days, the sides managed to clarify positions and make small steps toward each other, according to people who were connected with the talks who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the official press blackout.
Dedicating your entire free time toward achieving your goal may create a stress in your family life, and further take you away from your goal as a result, so make smaller steps and proceed with smooth transition, letting other people around you know what you have in mind.
Through small, scrappy, experiments, we thought, leaders could begin making small steps to learn.
Since coming back he's been making small steps toward re-emerging into public life.
Four big hospitals are just now getting FEMA relief for storm improvements, but many have already made small steps like moving their generators up from the basement.
"I like to take on things that have never been done before rather than to work in an iterative way just making small steps forward," he explains.
