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Quotes About Slow

Slow investing can have the same impact on startups that slow food has had on cuisine: good things come to those who wait.
~ Glenn Kelman
Death by starvation is slow.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
Behavioral scientists distinguish between fast thinking and slow thinking. Fast thinking is represented in the mind's System 1: it is automatic, intuitive, and often emotional. Slow thinking, reflected in System 2, is deliberative and reflective; it likes statistics. It's hard to think of a purer System 1 candidate than Trump.
~ Cass Sunstein
Whether you want to exercise more often, or you're hoping to become debt-free, real change happens in stages. Slow and steady progress is great - as long as you're taking steps in the right direction.
~ Amy Morin
Rushing had become so much of a habit that I was amazed at the amount of concentration it took to work slowly on purpose.
~ Thomas M. Sterner
He told himself to slow down to appreciate the moment, and he started walking faster to appreciate it sooner…. Photos. I need photos!
~ Tim Dorsey
The war on apathy moved much slower than real wars fought on the ground.
~ Orson Scott Card
Her lungs felt thick and slow, her mind dissolved, she felt she could cling like a bat in the long swoon of the crannied, underword darkness. Cling like a bat and sway for ever swooning in the draughts of the darkness ---
~ D. H. Lawrence
Travel by foot. There is so much you can't identify at top speed.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The bowhead lives its life extremely slowly, becoming sexually mature at about age twenty-five, with females giving birth every seven years or so; if it avoids the whalers, a bowhead has a good chance of living well past a century.19 It is definitively the
~ Hal Whitehead
Patience is like making a cup of tea, first you ask if its needed, then you drink it slowly.
~ Heather Lydia Thornhill
The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.
~ Lawrence Kasdan
The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
~ le guin ursula k ii
He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of imagination, but slogging, plodding along on the heavy ground of existence. He did not see the connections, which is said to be the hallmark of intellect. He felt connections--like a plumber.
~ le guin ursula k vi
I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.
~ lebowitz fran
I feel slow. I think slowly, I talk slowly, I react slowly. In the blur and rush of everything around me, I am more mindful. The mindfulness has grown quietly and surely, perhaps more a result of my slow, sparse environment in Kanglung than my own efforts. I can see how it would evaporate here without a consistent daily practice. I
~ Jamie Zeppa
I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down. Grandma Mazur
~ Janet Evanovich
Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
~ Bill James
What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be 'captured' by Earth's gravity.
~ Buzz Aldrin
All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.
~ Albert Pike
There's a bad thing that we have in America, and that is a slow, sticky way that we get out of prejudice. We get out of it very, very slowly. It's like walking through tar. But we're getting out; things are changing.
~ Neal Adams
Les Escargot, a gourmet restaurant run by giant snails. The food's supposed to be great, but you wouldn't believe how slow the service is.
~ Tim Waggoner
Quem vive não pode se esconder. devagar, tudo acontece conosco. O tempo mesquinho se contrai.
~ Peter Esterhazy
My poor boat poked along the waterway with the blinding speed of a manatee.
~ Pat Conroy