Haste Quotes - Page 9

• I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

  Stephen King

  Haste Makes Waste, Years, Play

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• The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage.

  Howard Raiffa

  Party, Disadvantages

  Howard Raiffa, John Richardson, David Metcalfe (2002). “Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision Making”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

  H. L. Mencken

  Devil, Slowness

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• We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

  Walter Van Tilburg Clark

  Strong, Justice, Feelings

  Walter Van Tilburg Clark (2011). “The Ox-Bow Incident”, p.30, Modern Library

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• Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity.

  Robert E. Murray

  Vanishing, Eternity

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• When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.

  David Malpass

  Mistake, Causes, Problem

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• The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Lying, Evil

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.226, Tara Publishing

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• Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
  Begin it with weak straws.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Weak, Straws

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.27

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• Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste:
  Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Wings, Mind

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• Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste
  Stream down the snows, till the air is white,
  As, myriads by myriads madly chased,
  They fling themselves from their shadowy height.
  The fair, frail creatures of middle sky,
  What speed they make, with their grave so nigh;
  Flake after flake,
  To lie in the dark and silent lake!

  William C. Bryant

  Lying, Dark, Lakes

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• We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.

  Moliere

  Wise, Fashion, Men

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• The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

  Walt Whitman

  Promise, Environmental, Doe

  'To the sayers of words' 2

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• He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

  Matthew Henry

  Guilt, Hot, May

  Matthew Henry, Philip Henry (1855). “The miscellaneous works of the Rev. Matthew Henry: containing in addition to those heretofore published, numerous sermons and papers, now first printed from the original manuscripts. With forty sermons on what Christ is made to believers, by Philip Henry; funeral sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry, by the Rev. Matthew Henry; funeral sermons on Mr. Matthew Henry, by W. Tong, John Reynolds, and Dr. Williams”, p.309

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• In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

  Dennis DeYoung

  Moon, Reality, Desert

  Song: Desert Moon

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• The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!

  Omar Khayyam

  Stars, Nihilism, Dawn

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.167, University of Virginia Press

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• To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

  Lucretius

  Power, Levels, Stones

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.85, Delphi Classics

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• You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

  Ben Vereen

  Light, Long, People

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• Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stars, Work, Shining

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• My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.

  Gene Ween

  Decision, Made

  "Aaron Freeman on Retiring Ween: 'My Decision Was Not Made in Haste'". www.rollingstone.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes;
  To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes.
  For here though death doth end their misery,
  I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

  Thomas Kyd

  Tragedy, Ease, Woe

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• Free your mind from all that troubles you; God will take care of things. You will be unable to make haste in this (choice) without, so to speak, grieving the heart of God, because he sees that you do not honor him sufficiently with holy trust. Trust in him, I beg you, and you will have the fulfillment of what your heart desires.

  St. Vincent

  Heart, Grieving, Free Your Mind

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• I've been looking for answers all of my life. Yes I realize now these are not what I needed. No, in fact, all I need is what I've decided on, in my heart to believe. In all the crossing confusion and haste of numerous opinion and stance, my own opinion has become my own boat from where I observe the raging opinions of the sea, relaxed, drinking my lemonade and feeling very amused by it all.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Drinking, Believe, Heart

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• The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste

  James F. Cooper

  Art, Military, Preparation

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• The power given by the Constitution to the Executive to interpose his veto is a high conservative power; but in my opinion it should never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution, or manifest haste and want of due consideration by Congress.

  Zachary Taylor

  Want, Conservative, Opinion

  Zachary Taylor, S. HORN (1848). “All the Letters of Major General Z. Taylor: Anecdotes of rough and ready: Songs of Old Zach's Campaigns, etc. [Edited by] S. Horn”, p.10

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• The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...

  Konrad Lorenz

  Play, Decision, Humanity

  "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.

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