Quotes About Pace

Good things happen slowly and bad things happen fast. Those were comforting words, and they comfort me today.

Good things happen slowly," said a doctor in the ICU months ago, "and bad things happen fast.

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

It might be a Proustian slogan: n'allez pas trop vite. And an advantage of not going by too fast is that the world has a chance of becoming more interesting in the process.

The thought that your life is moving too slowly is a sign that you are moving too fast. Rushing never improves the quality of our life or the results we seek; to the contrary, it muddies our vision and causes us to make errors that cost us twice as much time and energy to repair.

The peace and seclusion of country life have already been largely undermined by the radio, the car, and the telephone, and by the spread of bureaucracy into almost every department of life; and now if millions of people who can no longer endure the pace and the demands of city life are moving into the country, and if entire industries are dispersed into rural areas, then the urbanization of the country will go ahead fast, and the whole basic structure of life there will be changed.

Don't run too fast through life. You only have one.

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

Follow-up is personal. It must be done by someONE; not by someTHING. For it to be effective we must set the pace. We can't permanently sell something we don't make time to get into our lives.

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?

An hour later, I check my Facebook page. Violet has written: "Arrange whatever pieces come your way." My skin starts to burn. She's quoting Virginia Woolf back to me. My pulse has tripled its pace. Shit, I think. That's all the Virginia Woolf I know.

Life is long if you let it be.

With the inexorable slowness of a tortoise orgasm

Takt" is business jargon. Defined as "the desired time that it takes to make one unit of production output," it is used to regulate the pace of work.)

Er musste an eine Zeichnung von Daumier denken, die Der Fortschritt hieß. Daumier hatte auf dem Blatt Schnecken dargestellt, die hintereinander herkrochen, das war das Tempo der menschlichen Entwicklung. Aber die Schnecken krochen im Kreis! Und das war das Schlimmste.

We haven't the time to take our time.

She couldn't decide if he was a bit mad or if the world moved too slowly for him. Perhaps a little of both.

We live in an age in which the pace of technological change is pulsating ever faster, causing waves that spread outward toward all industries. This increased rate of change will have an impact on you, no matter what you do for a living.

And as regards haste,' he added philosophically, 'the impression that time is quickly running out is customarily a warning signal enjoining one to reduce the pace, and proceed slowly and with due prudence.' Geralt

Quanto alla fretta, di solito l'impressione dell'inesorabile incalzare del tempo è un segnale d'allarme che impone di rallentare il ritmo e agire lentamente e con l'adeguata riflessione.

There's nothing to fear from the dead. They can't hurt us. And I owe her. If I'd been more patient when I first went to interview her, asked her the right questions, she'd still be alive. She was killed for the secrets she kept. Besides, you're fitter than me. I'd show myself up by not keeping pace.

The wheels of publishing never slow down.

I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it.