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Quotes About Slow

Almost all professionals are slow to use their own expertise for their own work.
~ Richard Hamming
His smile was slow, and contained such a combination of genuine amusement, self-deprecation, and appreciation for her that for an instant every part of her felt illuminated, warmed, and too exposed.
~ Julie Anne Long
Time seemed to elongate like honey dripped from a spoon.
~ Julie Anne Long
illegally double-parked near the entrance to the school playground, drones its slow maniacal song.
~ Julie Otsuka
I think we should begin with a little exercise to flex our writing muscles,' Martha said, speaking very slowly as if she was on prescription drugs but I think it was just her way of trying to communicate with people less intelligent than she thought she was.
~ Kate Atkinson
I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.
~ John Steinbeck
Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.
~ Malcolm X
Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.
~ John Steinbeck
When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.
~ Young Jeezy
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
~ Nastassja Kinski
For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.
~ Edwin Way Teale
Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.
~ Carlo Petrini
Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.
~ Henri Rousseau
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
~ Hugh Grant
Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.
~ Fred Rogers
Rain is Nature's way of telling us to go slowly because the roads will soon be wet.
~ Hermester Barrington
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
No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.
~ Og Mandino
So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
~ Homer
Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can't get out. Everything slows down-the noise and the racing of my thoughts.
~ Jennifer Niven
Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.
~ Max Horkheimer