Quotes About Pace

It was extremely difficult to keep up any pace over the rocks since they were so unpredictable and devoid of reason. Their senselessness had never so much impressed me.

Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara

In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.

Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

The more haste the less speed.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.

Life is marathon, not a sprint. It is a race we are all guaranteed to finish, so run wisely.

When you do exams you never want to be the one who finishes first and you never want to be the one who finishes last.

Speed of life is a killer not a healer, so slow down to bloom like a flower.

I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail.

But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with quickened pace Is ignorant of dawn.

There are no more slow weeks. I realized this about 3 years ago. Downtime in politics isn't a thing.

To go fast, row slowly.

In modern time slowness is new sickness.

it may seem so easy to take it easy but, it is never so easy to take it easy

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Still, the days were endurable and came and went like breath with only a few deep heaves to harm the pace.

As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.

No matter how much workers may have been conditioned in time discipline by primary schooling, they will see the demand to work continually at a steady pace for eight hours a day regardless of what there is to do as defying all common sense—and the pretend make-work they are instructed to perform as absolutely infuriating.27

First, how could I protect my team from the incessant demands of the business and achieve what the Agile community now refers to as a "sustainable pace"?

God will not be outpaced.