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Quotes About Slow

If I'm relaxing, I'll make a proper cooked breakfast and very slowly drift into the day.
~ David Starkey
I will never, most likely, be good at the piano, but thanks to it, I will never forget the humbling, infuriating, necessary slowness of progress in any artistic endeavor.
~ Ben Dolnick
I'm from a small town where the pace of life is slow.
~ Kalki Koechlin
If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.
~ Bill Bryson
I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink.
~ Patricia Gaffney
I've watched snails climb over ten foot walls and vanish.
~ Bukowski
Derek wants to do this totally wild and raw." "Slow and dumb doesn't mix with wild and raw." "Thanks for your input, Mr. Cray." "Seriously. The man almost got killed by the world's laziest alligator.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation -- teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we can walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Whatever the tasks, do them slowly and with ease, in mindfulness.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Kiwi thought back to his first weeks, when insults had been impossible for him. One time he'd called Deemer a troglodyte but his delivery had been tentative and way, way too slow, as if the insult were a fork tenderly entering a steak.
~ Karen Russell
I don't do hurry I don't do worry.
~ Karen Salmansohn
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
~ Karl Georg Bchner
Per me fotografare significa prelevare campioni del mondo reale e metabolizzarli, come sostanza necessaria e nutriente per la memoria, e sono convinto di avere un rapporto bulimico con la realtà. Scatto davvero molte fotografie anche se, facendo per lo più uso del cavalletto e di una macchina di grande formato, riesco a controllarmi e a non farmi prendere troppo la mano dalla rapidità quasi compulsiva sempre in agguato e a mantenere un ritmo lento e misurato.
~ Gabriele Basilico
The idea of Solution was that if you asked questions and didn't keep mindlessly building widgets, your score would be lower, but you would find out you were working in a factory that supplied machine parts to the Third Reich. Once you had this information, you could potentially slow your output. You could make the bare number of parts required not to be detected by the Reich, or you could stop producing parts entirely.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I worked at slowing the beat of our hearts so we wouldn't feel so much pain.
~ Garth Stein
Monsieur Hamil m'avait souvent dit que le temps vient lentement du désert avec ses caravanes de chameaux et qu'il n'ètait pas pressé car il trasportait l'éternité.
~ Gary Romain
The beat of her heart, the slow burning away...of the bitter fires of the devil's arcade.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart. And so it was.—Most miserable!
~ Herman Melville
and his body responding with that maddening slowness from which one suffers when chased by the phantoms of nightmare.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
It had been a bad trip Ã¢â'¬Â¦ fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Derek favored his left side. His horse refused to bear him. I couldn't blame the horse. I wouldn't want his demonic, undead-blood-smeared, wolf-smelling ass riding me, either. But it made us slow.
~ Ilona Andrews
You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.
~ Kumail Nanjiani
The general reactions were that the video was either not going to load, or be painfully slow to load, or would require a plug-in users didn't have. YouTube changed that, because it just works.
~ Steve Krug