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Quotes About Pacing

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.
~ Anthony Hopkins
A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.
~ Shigeru Miyamoto
The run's the business end of a triathlon: it's where you win or lose the race. I like to get out very hard, make other people hurt sometimes, and other times leave it to the last kilometre and really win the race there.
~ Alistair Brownlee
To me, Ann Romney sounds like a better candidate than her husband. She put her MS into remission through horseback riding, alternative therapies, and a healthy diet. She knows how to pace herself. She has a sense of humor and an innate honesty, and her hair moves in the wind. Maybe she should run.
~ Patti Davis
After I work with my editor to get the manuscript in good shape, I sketch and lay out a whole book loosely, usually in black and white. You learn things about your text when you have to think about pacing and page-turns.
~ Adam Rex
Humor is the hardest thing to do. Action is so much easier, because you're just trying to establish the mood, and a pacing, and a rhythm, and an energy. Where, in humor, comedy is so subjective.
~ Genndy Tartakovsky
If you go too fast you might not notice everything. On the other hand, you don't want to be late.
~ Maira Kalman
If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.
~ Lucinda Williams
Trump knew his Republican base has a strong negative reaction to O'Donnell, so he bonded with them on that point. This is the persuasion method known as pacing and leading. First you match your audience's emotional condition to gain trust, and later you are in a position to lead them.
~ Scott Adams
Everything in life, I have come to conclude, is about 15 minutes too long. Except for summer - summer never begins early enough and always ends too soon.
~ Peter Gzowski
Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
~ Bob Hope
I know that's definitely the way for me to run races - instead of trying to burn up at the front and blowing up, it's always better to be passing people at the end.
~ Eloise Wellings
I'm not going to throw haymakers the whole fight; I'll gas out.
~ Stipe Miocic
A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
~ David Mamet
I have a surprisingly large appetite anyway and I don't drive, I walk everywhere, I don't sit down at the moment and I pace the hallway when I'm on the phone. I think that if I didn't eat large amounts of carbs and cheese I would wither away into a husk.
~ Jack Monroe
I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
~ Satchel Paige
If I were writing an article for the newspaper, it would be thesis statement, information, information, supporting arguments. That would be the setup. When I'm making a documentary, the pacing of the film and the way that you sort of switch from character to character - all of those are more about storytelling than straight journalism.
~ Marshall Curry
realidad, la historia de Elías nos enseña que si no le damos descanso a nuestro cuerpo, a nuestra mente y a nuestra alma, la travesía hacia la soledad y el silencio puede resultar algo excesivo para nosotros.
~ Ruth Haley Barton
Sometimes I arrive too early. I rush, and some people cling longer to life than expected.
~ Marcus Zusak
Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
~ Francis Crick
The only problem is time.
~ Seth MacFarlane
Don't give me timing, give me time
~ Jesse Lauriston Livermore
After all those years of people counting off seconds in her earpiece, I swear she has time wired into every bit of her body, so that it was almost exactly an hour when she climbed out.
~ Anna Quindlen
There are houses in Gloucester where grooves have been worn into the floorboards by women pacing past an upstairs window, looking out to sea.
~ Sebastian Junger