Quotes About Pace

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.

The old saying is true enough. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

You shun your spirit,' he murmured, 'every time you agree to sell your days to the city, to measure out your life at the city's pace.

Even when they were rushing, and in Moscow there's always a kind of rush, people lack the desperation of New York.

The whole struggle of life is to some extent a struggle about how slowly or how quickly to do each thing.

But he's proceeding at his own pace. That's the beauty of this project, of course. Johnnie is autonomous. Now that he's up there, he doesn't need anything from the ground. Since he and his sons won't cost us another dime, this is actually a low-budget project." Joan thought, Sons?

I'm just thinking too fast-- much too fast.

In Newton's time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge, at least in outline. But since then, the pace of the development of science has made this impossible. Because theories are always being changed to account for new observations, they are never properly digested or simplified so that ordinary people can understand them... Further, the rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date.

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

Our world needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction. – Mister Rogers.

Survival isn't a race. It's a dance.

When has life listened to anyone?It goes on at its own pace...Limping, when we wish it should run, And when calm desired, sprinting as in a race…

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

There are 158 footsteps between the bus stop and home but it can stretch to 180 if you aren't in a hurry, like maybe if you're wearing platform shoes.

On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins.

El dinero es el metrónomo que lleva el compás de la vida

But I like the fog because it slows things up. Things are too damn fast to suit me. I like 'em slow. Like they used to be a century ago.

Speed in music is like a sweater on a dog: mostly for show.

The pace was much faster than at the Fed.

Writing 'Rainwater' was a refreshing change of pace... a change of everything, in fact.

In 2015, the majority of refugees and migrants reached the European Union through Greece. Greek authorities were overwhelmed by the sheer number of people arriving at their shores. But they did not stay there. They were waved through to Central Europe at an increasing pace.

I do have moments when I like to relax, but I'm always moving, and that has always been the case since I was a boy.