Quotes About Pacing

Chores which can be done in an hour, I take about three hours to do it.

I paced a bit, tried to remember how to breathe right, how to calm my skin. But it blared at me. Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own.

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length - beginning, middle, end: a story unfolding.

A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time.

I'm not the kind of guy who likes to rush things through. I like to take my time and finish when I'm finished.

I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn't find the time to do it.

When days seem like years and years feel like days.

Everything has its own time

Time has its own secrets, so it is best to wait upon it untill it tells.

Things take the time they take.

Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. - Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.

hide your strength and bide your time.

The clock gulps softly, eating second whole while she waits...

In truth, there was more than one thing behind it, but at the heart of the transformation was a powerful visualization technique that I taught the Strattonites called future pacing.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.

chi vuol occuparsi di orologi deve avere Tempo ma non si deve annoiare

We haven't the time to take our time.

I have to be very aware of how I manage my health. I still have relapses if I push myself too hard and my immune system can't handle it.

The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different.

Lincoln ( he prefers to go by just his last name. No one calls him "Abe", which he loathes. Few call him "Mr. President". His wife actually calls him "Mr. Lincoln", and his two personal secretaries playfully refer to him as "the Tycoon") paces the upper deck of the steamboat River Queen, his face lit now and again by distant artillery.

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

It's easier to keep up than to catch up...

If you think you are boring your audience, go slower not faster.

To fancy Charles in a savage state that night was quite ridiculous, for as long as she had remained awake she had heard faint sounds from the laboratory above; sounds as if of sobbing and pacing, and of a sighing which told only of despair's profoundest depths.