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Quotes About Pace

Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better
~ Magda Gerber
The tigress didn't so much pace as pour herself, as if her very essence was molten, simmering, like the ooze from a volcano.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
guided the sentence that was drawing to an end towards that which was waiting to begin, now hastening, now slackening the pace of the syllables so as to bring them, despite their difference of quantity, into a uniform rhythm, and breathed into this quite ordinary prose a kind of life, continuous and full of feeling.
~ Marcel Proust
Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.
~ John Ortberg Jr.
It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.
~ John Steinbeck
About the whole face there was a granite dignity, so that every motion seemed an impossible thing. Once at rest, it seemed the old man would be stone, would never move again. His steps were slow and certain. Once made, no step could ever be retraced; once headed in a direction, the path would never bend nor the pace increase nor slow.
~ John Steinbeck
It took Doc longer to go places than other people. He didn't drive fast and he stopped and ate hamburgers very often.
~ John Steinbeck
Be quick - but don't hurry.
~ John Wooden
The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.
~ Emanuel Celler
I'm not one about trying to slow things down. What I try to do is create an atmosphere for my family where we can pretty much have whatever.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
The quickest way is sometimes the longest.
~ Neil Gaiman
She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear.
~ George R. R. Martin
Don't hurry through life, don't worry though life, don't worry through life. Life is not to run, it's also to have some fun.
~ Unknown
Take your time; don't live too fast. Troubles come but they will pass.
~ Unknown
Everything in this life takes longer than you think, except life itself.
~ Unknown
No. Standing as close to me as you possibly can, will not make the line move faster.
~ Unknown
A lot of things remain unfinished by the end of the day and likewise remain incomplete by the end of life.
~ Unknown
We live and we learn to take one step at a time. There's no need to rush. It's like learning to fly, or falling in love.
~ Jordin Sparks
Take your time, don't live too fast. Troubles will come, but they soon will pass.
~ Unknown
To reach the end of a day, natures that are slightly nervous, as mine was, make use, like motor-cars, of different 'speeds.' There are mountainous, uncomfortable days, up which one takes an infinite time to pass, and days downward sloping, through which one can go at full tilt, singing as one goes.
~ Marcel Proust
Cooper walked, slow and steady, four-four time in a world gone off measure.
~ Marcus Sakey
I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.
~ Eugene Ormandy
Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.
~ Eugene Ormandy
If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.
~ Marion Woodman