Quotes About Pacing

The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching 'Ben Hur' at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.

A bank hates to rush —it takes its time.

A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment.

Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait.

The scientific name for this pacing mechanism is anticipatory regulation. Its output is a continuously refreshed, intuition-like feeling for how to adjust one's effort in order to get to the finish line as quickly as possible. Its inputs are perception of effort, motivation, knowledge of the distance left to be covered, and past experience.

It's been a long day." "It's only nine in the morning." Myron said, "For what breeds time but two hands on a clock?

Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.

Killing time is not an easy job

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

This hall, where once the lovers of a bygone time paced and paused and turned one about another in forgotten measures to the sound of forgotten music, this hall was carpeted with lime-white sticks.

The next ten minutes took ten hours.

In British sitcoms, you can get five minutes of nothing before the story starts.

But probably they were all sleeping, too. It was only she, Arnette, who was sentenced to a night of pacing the halls of her mind. Because

I underclock conversations. If I focus my full efforts, it takes you several minutes in relative time to speak a single syllable.

Don't read too fast," she said.

This shall be the test of innocence—if I can hear a taunt, and look out on this friendly moon, pacing the heavens in queen-like majesty, with the accustomed yearning.

I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.

My role as an artist helps me tremendously in breaking down each story. Pacing, layout, movement - having drawn a few thousand pages, I understand the language of comic books very well.

If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.

I remember in the first part of the race I was sixth and I could have gone quicker, but I had to go slow. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done.

His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.

If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.