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Quotes About Slow

A bank hates to rush —it takes its time.
~ Sholem Aleichem
Dear heart, I promissed you i'd take it slow. Dear love, I know I swore on everything I own. But I can resist...it's just one kiss.
~ Keri Hilson
I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone should make time for writing.
~ Jason Mraz
There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
~ Annie Dillard
Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.
~ Mavis Gallant
one of the "slow burns," where all the major blood vessels are missed. I
~ Max Brooks
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
~ May Sarton
Nothing happens in cricket, ever. Even the highlights resemble a freeze frame.
~ Charlie Brooker
I love Charlotte. I'm more reserved and calm and laid back, and this city is slow.
~ Kemba Walker
Architects generally have been slow to join the evaluation bandwagon. More often than not, the pull to conduct evaluations has come from client organizations, not from the architects themselves. Many architects in the past have regarded POE as negative feedback….
~ Stewart Brand
The light came slow and limping, never fully arriving.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
They say in extreme moments time will slow, returning to its unmoving core, and standing there, it seemed as if everything stopped.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Mindful eating is about awareness. When you eat mindfully, you slow down, pay attention to the food you're eating, and savor every bite.
~ Susan Albers
As she walked slowly down the hall, she could hear them arguing - nothing violent, nothing impassioned. But then, she'd not have expected that. Cavendish tempers ran cold, and they were far more likely to attack with a frozen barb than a heated cry.
~ Julia Quinn
Her unintended striptease was all the more sensual because Belle was lowering her stocking with agonizing slowness not because she had an audience but because she seemed to love the feel of the silk sliding along her soft skin.
~ Julia Quinn
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
~ Ezra Pound
Slowness means cleaving perfectly to time, so closely that the seconds fall one by one, drop by drop like the steady dripping of a tap on stone. This stretching of time deepens space. It is one of the secrets of walking: a slow approach to landscapes that gradually renders them familiar. Like the regular encounters that deepen friendship.
~ Frédéric Gros
The only sane option was to retreat back out into the corridor. Fortunately sanity had never really slowed Neverfell down.
~ Frances Hardinge
Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It's built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don't even see. It's a messy business, bringing peace into the world.
~ Bono
Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
~ Harper Lee
This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.
~ Haruki Murakami
Time came slowly and passed slowly, so leisurely that at times he could swear it had stealthily doubled back on itself.
~ Haruki Murakami
I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.
~ Marc Ribot
Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.'
~ Alex Berenson