Slow Down Quotes - Page 12

• If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.

  William S. Burroughs

  Order, Giving, Forever

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

  Frank Gehry

  People

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• I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way.

  Amanda Beard

  Yoga, Meditation, Mind

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My whole life I have been in a hurry, like running fast after a goal, and now I realize it's nice to sometimes slow down a little bit and enjoy the ride.

  Luis Gerardo Mendez

  Running, Nice, Goal

  "Origin Series: Club de Cuervos Actor Luis Gerardo Méndez". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 15, 2015.

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• If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Ideas, Ifs, Slowing

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• Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

  Evel Knievel

  Country, War, People

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• Young people, those who think they're experts in science, there's no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation - and whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.

  Robert Breault

  Appreciation, Children, Flower

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• One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.

  Nicolas Cage

  Fire, Interesting, Car

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• I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.

  Lea Michele

  Play, People, Guy

  FaceBook post by Lea Michele from Oct 21, 2011

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• Let go of me or slow down," she demanded as she tried to keep pace with him. He slowed down. "I swear to God, you try the patience of a saint." "You aren't a saint, Brodick, no matter what your mother might have told you.

  Julie Garwood

  Letting Go, Mother, Swear To God

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, People

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• If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Giving, Finding Happiness

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• Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Pursuit Of Happiness, Pursuit

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• Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.

  Daniel Coyle

  Inspirational, Mistake, Struggle

  "The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown". Book by Daniel Coyle, 2010.

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• Giggle potential is everywhere; we just need to slow down long enough to see it.

  Marilyn Meberg

  Happiness, Long, Needs

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process.

  Frederick Lenz

  Silly, Buddhism, Thinking

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• In fact, in Parliament, I pointed out that Australians on average incomes would move into the second highest tax bracket in the next couple of years. That is going to slow down the Australian economy. It's bad for households.

  Joe Hockey

  Couple, Moving, Average

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the road if there is one. We're always going to do that because it's still fascinating and it's human nature.

  George Clooney

  Looks, Wrecks, Down And

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

  George Carlin

  Time, Mean, Hands

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• I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

  Jason Mewes

  Toys, Bigs, Collectors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows.

  Robert Cailliau

  Needs, Useless, Lines

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• In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and distractions, of slowing down and simply being alone with our thoughts.

  Carl Honore

  Art, Media, Background Noise

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.

  Eli Wallach

  Want, Slowing, Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.

  Jess C Scott

  Self Esteem, Simple, Emotional

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