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Quotes About Pace

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.
~ H. L. Mencken
Sometimes when you're in a more fast-paced place, with more to see and do, you miss out on things like nature and beautiful, God-made things. They call it "God's country"!
~ Valerie June
When we run ahead of God, we run into trouble.
~ Fraser Young
The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.
~ Steve Prefontaine
A good horse makes short miles.
~ George Eliot
The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.
~ Volker Bertelmann
I feel the need... the need for speed.
~ Tom Cruise
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.
~ John O'Donohue
I credit chiropractic care for maintaining my health to keep up the pace of my career.
~ Jane Russell
Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history.
~ Mitt Romney
There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.
~ David O. Russell
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
~ Robin Williams
Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
~ Roald Dahl
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
~ Rollo May
We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.
~ Paulo Coelho, Maktub
The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit.
~ Alex Ferguson
In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.
~ Larry Ellison
Start slowly, then taper off.
~ Walt Stack
Do not hurry; do not rest.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can only work exactly the same way, at the same pace, doing the same work for so long before monotony bites.
~ Jason Fried