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Quotes About Slow

But this will not do. No, this will never do. There are continents and shores which beseech our understanding. Seldom have we been so slow. Seldom have we been so far. My only wish is to see Far Arden again.
~ Jim Morrison
It's better to be a Turtle who walks patiently and enjoys every step of the way, Rather than to be a Rabbit who runs fast but missing every details in life.
~ Unknown
He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Trade is slow here. The great dealers sell Millet, Delacroix, Corot, Daubigny, Dupré, a few other masters at exorbitant prices. They do little or nothing for young artists. The second class dealers contrariwise sell those at very low prices.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I've found most authors have the wrong mental picture of the process. Instead of a sprint, publishing is more like a marathon. Slow, steady and consistent action will get you your audience and success.
~ Unknown
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;...
~ W.B. Yeats
The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.
~ Unknown
Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.
~ Jim Fixx
Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death.
~ John Hiatt
If he went any slower, it would be Monday by the time he got there," said Josh. "If he went any slower, the Malloys could be moved out and back to Ohio," Wally observed.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Don't run I never liked fast food
~ Rachel Caine
Dialogue doesn't take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Personally, I love lists. They're very soothing. You usually write them slowly, so they're tidy-looking even if you don't have good handwriting. They also give you a sense of reassurance that you really do know what you're doing, and they incite the pleasant delusion that Things Are Under Control. Unfortunately, once I've written a list, I find that I don't want to do anything on it.17
~ Diana Gabaldon
tortoise always manages to win the race by using its brains.
~ Dan Gutman
Containment doesn't work. Containment does buy time. It could slow. It very well could slow the spread. But while you're slowing the spread, you better be doing something in parallel to be prepared for when that virus breaks out.
~ Rick Bright
There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.
~ Lili Taylor
In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them. Shattering a hip or wrist, or neck. Best to take it slow.
~ Louise Penny
Prices change slowly because the subjective valuations of human beings change slowly.
~ Ludwig von Mises
There's a foot of space and world of contrast between Cristina and me yet I too know how hard it is to peel back the veneer of your life and to peek at the real. It's like waking up in a room and getting out of bed and realizing the furniture has been completely rearranged. You will eventually find your way out but it will be slow going and you're bound to get some bruises along the way.
~ Jodi Picoult
walking slowly through the crowd.
~ John C. Maxwell
My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.
~ Geoffrey Canada
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
the house picked up again its long, slow project of decay.
~ Diane Setterfield
Las puestas de sol no tienen prisa, y nosotros tampoco. El cielo se encuentra sometido a un sortilegio poderoso y estructurado.
~ Don DeLillo