Quotes About Pacing

Hell and furies! Eleanor had begun to pace, her skirts swirling about her ankles. What was he thinking? When does he ever think? Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wine cup from Raoul. If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.

Life's too short not to sleep when you feel like it.

She had thought that "depression" would be like sitting in a rocking chair and not being able to make it move. She had thought it would descend over her like a fog, turning things fuzzy, coloring them gray. But depression was active, it paced back and forth wringing its hands.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.

Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.

Some of the life lessons that my mom has taught me is that the road is not for the fastest or the swiftest, but it's for those who enjoy it to the end. Just telling you that life is not pure grace. It's like a marathon.

Slowly, Woyzeck, take it slowly. One thing after another one. You make me feel giddy. - What am I supposed to do with the ten minutes you save rushing that way? What use are they to me? Think about it, Woyzeck; you've got a good thirty years left. Thirty years. That makes three hundred and sizty months - and then there's days, hours, minutes! What're you going to do with such a monstrous amount of time? Eh? Space it out a bit, Woyzeck.

What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.

If you ask me about my success story, the secret is I know when to pull myself back. I don't overexpose myself; I give proper gaps whenever I can. I do not over spend myself, I keep myself busy in lot of activities. I really work hard; I work harder than others, by focussing on my fitness level and studying music.

Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

I know better than to read reviews but I do it anyway. Somebody described my pacing as 'glacial.' I wasn't thrilled, but I think they meant it in a not entirely unflattering way.

I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery.

I just think a lot of movies are too long. I want to know how to make my movie as tight as possible.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

To help your concentration, don't take too much time.

So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.

Life was all about timing.

For the next hour or two, keeping up with Alessandro would be a task that would set the boy to breathing hard and make him think that something might be wrong with his heart, because he found it difficult to stay even with an old man who carried a cane and whose every step was a cross between an uncontrolled pivot and a barely arrested fall.

The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.

A man in white clothes (…) was running as one does run when Death is the pacemaker.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.