Quotes About Pace

If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.

The Premier League is a league that I've always wanted to play in. The pace is high.

It's why the Premier League is watched so much all over the world: because it has more pace and more physicality than in any other league.

In the Premier League, you can't play against anyone if you don't play at a high pace.

There are so many other examples in the Premier League of players who are the best in their country and make a move because they are really ready for a level higher. If they come to the English top flight, it turns out they need a period to adjust in terms of pace, aggressiveness and physicality, especially as a midfielder.

I've learned to adapt to the pace of the English game and a different style of football in the Premier League.

Even if someone were to take me out on a date, I have a 'touch me not' air about me. I don't like people who take things too fast nor the ones who take forever to open up to me.

Just because it's a break doesn't mean it has to be fast all the time. It can be a secondary break, but you've got to allow the defense to break down.

Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I've only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle and end. You know your character's arch.

I find Los Angeles a bit desperate. For me, the energy there is bad.

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.

I don't have a set target on the number of films I should do in a year.

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

The team has come along slow but fast.

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

The key to keeping the audience on the edge of their seats is letting events unfold slowly, then speeding them up at the right moment, according to a pattern and tempo that you control.

Hurrying betrays a lack of control over yourself, and over time.

Städte lassen sich an ihrem Gang erkennen wie Menschen.

I was finally relaxing, winding down, and becoming more in sync with the slow gentle pace of this beautiful island paradise, surrounded by the crystal blue waters of the Pacific Ocean.

the right kind of a clock. One that did not hurry the hours away but ticked them off deliberately.

It was wearying, trying to adjust to all the paces life required.

The work of any decent detective is at least nine-tenths monotony, despite the invariably brisk pace of any detective novel, or even a police file, for that matter . . . . No, if I wanted a life filled with non-stop excitement and challenge, I should not choose the life of a detective. High-wire acrobatics, perhaps, or teaching twelve-year-olds, or motherhood, but not detecting.

We all have our own rhythms to walk to.

Slow down to speed up. Anonymous