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Quotes About Slow

There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
~ Olivia Colman
I need to work on timing and the pace of the game. I need to know when to slow it down and speed it up.
~ O. J. Mayo
Some things are so horrible they need to be hidden right after they become visible. They are too horrible to be seen except very slowly, or in very small amounts. Or they are too beautiful.
~ Sarah Manguso
The fitful sleeping makes the hours pass slowly; it seems to me the night has many nights in it?has years of nights!?through which, as if through drifts of smoke, I am compelled to stumble.
~ Sarah Waters
It is so hot that even with the windows open, I am suffocating. I kept a frog in a box once. The box had a lid so he wouldn't jump out. It was during a summer like this. When everyone moves slowly because the air is too thick to breathe. I forgot about the frog for a few days. It was dead by the time I remembered. Tonight, as I lie in bed, I start to cry because I once killed a frog. It's just a little cry, and I stop myself quickly.
~ Sarah Willis
Marching onward, marching onward Marching to that lovely tune Marching onward, marching onward Happy as a bird in June Sliding onward, sliding onward Listen to that rag Hop and skip now do that slow, oh Do that slow drag Dance slowly, prance slowly Now you hear that pretty rag Dance slowly, prance slowly Now you do the real slow drag Waltz slowly, waltz slowly Listen to the ragtime Hop and skip Now do the slow, oh, do the slow drag
~ Scott Joplin
Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.
~ Bernard-Joseph Saurin
I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles I'm coming slow but speeding
~ Dave Matthews
Time passed so much more slowly than space.
~ Martha Ostenso
Like all businesses ACID has its ups and downs. There are actually seasons when business will pick up such as Christmas time and carnival time. There are other times when business will run very slow.
~ St. Lucia
Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.
~ Roger Zelazny
It was two weeks before Christmas. A slow time of year for raising the dead.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
How slow and still the time did drag along.
~ Mark Twain
The community is eminently Portuguese—that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.
~ Mark Twain
There is a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in. But of course this was at rare intervals. Ferryboats used to lose valuable trips because their passengers grew old and died, waiting for us to get by.
~ Mark Twain
He smelled like the sea even after he had bathed. When he wasn't fishing, he sat on the floor in our dark front room mending a fishing net. And if a fishing net had been a sleeping creature, he wouldn't even have awakened it, at the speed he worked. He did everything this slowly.
~ Arthur Golden
Arriving at meaningful solutions is an inevitably slow and difficult process. Nonetheless, what I saw was: better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes willingness to try.
~ Atul Gawande
With repetition, a lot of mental functioning becomes automatic and effortless, as when you drive a car to work. Novel situations, however, usually require conscious thought and "workaround" solutions, which are slower to develop, more difficult to execute, and more prone to error.
~ Atul Gawande
His feet where retarded.
~ Stephen Crane
See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; He holds us all within his mind. On his back all vows are made; He sees the truth but mayn't aid. He loves the land and loves the sea, And even loves a child like me.
~ Stephen King
Thee's a good man, Roland of Gilead." He considered this, then slowly shook his head. "All my life I've had the fastest hands, but at being good I was always a little too slow." She
~ Stephen King
Practicing slowly (combined with active listening) is the first concrete practice technique I've
~ Jonathan Harnum
Ahora ve despacio, chico. A la naturaleza no le gustan las prisas. —Sí, padre
~ Jonathan Maberry