Quotes About Pace

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk.

In the West we have television timing. We like action—and lots of it.

A year and a day of study and spiritual practice offers students the chance to move at this natural pace in their learning. It gives them the opportunity to learn, just as the ancients did, through personal experience, trial and error—which are all guided by the experienced hand of a trained elder.

truth dies in four modes. The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts. The president does this at a high rate and at a fast pace.

You should want to run if you're a player, shouldn't you, on offense?

I like the offense to flow.

You know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.

I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically.

They glided past, they glided fast, Like travellers through a mist: They mocked the moon in a rigadoon Of delicate turn and twist, And with formal pace and loathsome grace The phantoms kept their tryst

as Glamour editor Emma Rosenblum, who recently turned thirty, says: "We're all on different time lines and need to realize that life isn't a race. It's more like one of those huge celebrity walkathons, where everyone's ambling along at her own pace, wearing a really dorky hat and lots of sunblock." By thirty, you should be moving at your own speed.

Jack Welch, the architect of GE's turnaround, said it this way: "The world is moving at such a pace that control has become a limitation. It slows you down."6 Welch's aim is not to find better ways to control workers but rather to liberate them.7 Welch's concept of a boundaryless organization is his way to liberate GE workers from the "chains" of command.

Cuando empezamos la jomada, hay ante nosotros cientos de cosas que sabemos que tenemos que hacer durante el día, pero, si no las tomamos una a una y hacemos que pasen por el día lentamente y a su debido ritmo, como pasan los granos por el estrecho cuello del reloj de arena, estamos destinados a destruir nuestra estructura física o mental, sin escapatoria posible

Prayer for the Future May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.

But Siri knew the slow pace of books and the cadences of theater under the stars. I knew only the stars.

The dimension of time is a huge problem—if the pace of global warming were accelerated to a few years instead of over centuries, people would pay more attention. But it's like the national debt: I'll leave it to my grandchildren—I'm sure they'll think of some solution.

They all think I'm killing myself at this pace, but what they don't understand is that I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed.

Without Sunday, I wouldn't know when to put on the brakes of a hurtling life.

Our actions will be at measured pace given the current market turmoil.

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey SAT through life.

He who hurries can not walk with dignity.

The proper pace of recognition is weekly or even daily, not monthly or yearly.

It was like living with a bad action movie, all excitement and motion, and no character development.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.