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Quotes About Haste

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
~ Thucydides
No matter what she was doing-baking cookies, walking around the lake on a beautiful day, making love to her husband-she felt rushed and jittery, as if the last few grains of sand were at that very moment sliding through the narrow waist of an hourglass. Any unforeseen occurrence-road construction, an inexperienced cashier, a missing set of keys-could plunge her into a mood of frantic despair that could poison an entire day.
~ Tom Perrotta
Say it, please, she urged. Please. And hurry. Hurry. I've got things to do.
~ Toni Morrison
Only thieves and children run.
~ Tracy Chevalier
Immediate gratification takes too long.
~ Carrie Fisher
instant gratification takes too long." Anyway
~ Carrie Fisher
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
~ George Gordon Byron
Go for efficiency, elegance, and grace in your motions; avoid hasty shortcuts. Rather than thinking about getting the job finished and going on to something else, stay wholly focused on the moment, on the task at hand. Above all, don't hurry. You might discover that by not hurrying you'll finish the dishes sooner than would ordinarily be the case.
~ George Leonard
He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
~ George R.R. Martin
What good is this, i ask you? He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
~ George R.R. Martin
They needed to take action, make haste, embalm the dead town, dress the wounds of the sculptures, heal the sick windows, give succour to the ageing walls.
~ Georges Rodenbach
I would awake early, breakfast hurriedly under the tangerine trees already fragrant with the warmth of the early sun
~ Gerald Durrell
The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
~ Charles F. Kettering
Meslekleri ve durumlar? gereÄŸi, önemli konular hakk?nda genelde h?zl? kararlar almak zorunda kalanlar, gündelik, önemsiz iÅŸlerde de, mütevazi ve sakin insanlar? ÅŸa??rt?p, ak?llar?n? kar??t?ran bir acelecilik gösterirler.
~ Ivo Andri?
Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly.
~ J.D. Robb
Y deja de pasar así las páginas. ¿Por qué lo manejas con tanta brusquedad? –Porque… Porque si no me doy prisa se abrirá un agujero. –¿Dónde? –Entre las páginas. –Qué tontería. No hay ningún agujero entre las páginas.
~ J.M. Coetzee
traicionan al tiempo con falsas urgencias.»
~ Jack Kerouac
But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.
~ Gustav Stresemann
So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.
~ Gelett Burgess
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
~ John Wesley
Hurry up please its time.
~ T. S. Eliot
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
~ Tacitus
in a place like China. People rush ahead of you; they have no time to look back.
~ Tash Aw