Quotes About Pace

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

Our overvaluation of speed (time here as only money) has robbed us of many things that are at least equally precious.

Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.

And as to being quick, why, bless you! That is only a matter of habit; if you get into the habit of being quick, it is just as easy as being slow; easier, I should say; in fact, it don't agree with my health to be hulking about over a job twice as long as it need take. Bless you! I couldn't whistle if I crawled over my work as some folks do!

if you've worked in good faith for a couple of hours but cannot hear it today, have some lunch.

But do not walk slowly simply for company—ever. Not even God would wish you to be unequally yoked and result in destroying both of you—in fact God least of all.

I was part of life once more and my heart was beating to a human pace.

Putting a book together is interesting and exhilarating. It is sufficiently difficult and complex and it engages all your intelligence. It is life at its most free. Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let it rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.

You can't sprint every day, but it's probably a good idea to sprint regularly. It keeps the resistance at bay.

When the offering you bring matches the story we tell ourselves, the way we tell it, the pace we're used to, the expense and the risk . . . it's an easy choice to add you to the mix.

Do not let your life, ministry or organization go faster than your resources.

I think if you're doing alcohol and drugs, the chances of you surviving this kind of a pace are next to nothing. I live an extremely healthy life.

Things don't happen that fast in real life.

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.

There's really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they're getting is on pace with life.

I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series.

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

Each and every thing I say yes to sets the pace of my life.

how important speed in scene-changes and economy of superfluous decoration was in mounting Shakespeare's plays to their best advantage,

Be the day never so long,Evermore at last they ring to even-song.

with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all.