Quotes About Pace

When I forget my own inner multiplicity and my own long and continuing journey toward selfhood, my expectations of students become excessive and unreal. If I can remember the inner pluralism of my own soul and the slow pace of my own self-emergence, I will be better able to serve the pluralism among my students at the pace of their young lives.

Those who run fast in life will be given an extra load to carry so that they may keep up with those that are walking through life.

Too many people think speed is the hallmark of a good musician.

I paced while he slept, ricocheting like a dove skidding the lonely confines of a Joseph Cornell box.

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

Sit up to slow down,

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast.

Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.

is purposely conservative. You have little to gain by rushing back into training,

The things that matter to us are measured by depth. Would you assess your humanity by its pace? When I view myself as a time-sensitive product, valued for what I produce, then I have made depth, extended thought, and the inward journey marginal indulgences.