Quotes About Pacing

Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

I actually enjoyed the struggles that we had trying to shape 'Blood', to get the pacing right, the rhythm of it.

Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

What had been intriguing on Monday and Tuesday was approaching annoying by Wednesday and exasperating by Thursday.

need two hundred calories an hour. The trick is learning how to take in a little at a time, so you've got a steady drip of fuel without overwhelming your stomach. This'll be good practice.

eased back to a walk, obeying the ultrarunner's creed: "If you can't see the top, walk." When you're running fifty miles, there's no dividend in bashing up the hills and then being winded on the way down; you only lose a few seconds if you walk, and then you can make them back up by flying downhill.

Experiment with your gears. Run slowly enough to sing as you go, then gradually pick up the pace until you can puff out only a few words at a time. Work your way up and down the gear range, mixing in a few short bursts so you remember what it feels like to go Full Burn.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Take too much time, and time will take you.

What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing.

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse, and then they pop into high gear, and then they go back into slow, and then they pop into high gear again.

the hours can feel long, but the years go by fast.

I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

Certain styles of play take a bit longer.

Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.

You learn to get by from day to day, Sam Regan said sympathetically to him. You never think in longer terms. Just until dinner or until time for bed; very finite intervals and tasks and pleasures. Escapes.

Timing. It's about timing.

I was traveling myself when I got my Fitbit, and because the tingle feels so good, not just as a sensation but also as a mark of accomplishment, I began pacing the airport rather than doing what I normally do, which is sit in the waiting area, wondering which of the many people around me will die first, and of what.

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. Dag Hammarskjöld

His eyes drifted leisurely back up to my face and he smiled at me appreciatively, Kelsey, when a man spends time with a beautiful woman, he needs to pace himself. I quirked my eyebrow at him and laughed. Yeah, I'm a regular marathon alright." He kissed my fingers. Exactly. A wise man never sprints…in a marathon.

The son of Mark Twain recounted that his father paced while he worked: "Some of the time when dictating, Father walked the floor . . . then it always seemed as if a new spirit had flown into the room."24 Bill Gates is a pacer, too. "It helps him organize his mind and see what others can't see," says his wife, Melinda.