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• I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

  Eric Carle

  Life, Art, Sunset

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• Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.

  Wayne Muller

  Space, Joints, Expansion

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• Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.

  Tim Ferriss

  Motivational, Mean, Cutting

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• Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.

  Jack Johnson

  Moving, Moving To Fast

  Song: Inaudible Melodies, Album: Brushfire Fairytales

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• In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.

  Richard Davidson

  Meditation, Mind, Moments

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• As you focus your attention on the heart center, you will begin to feel your thoughts slowing down. You'll begin to feel your mind becoming calm and quiet. They won't bother you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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• Sometimes you need to slow down to go fast.

  Jeff Olson

  Needs, Sometimes

  Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.77, Greenleaf Book Group

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• The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak.

  Kim Edwards

  Real, Blessing, Challenges

  Kim Edwards (2011). “The Lake of Dreams”, p.407, Penguin UK

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• I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Down And, Savoring, Enjoy

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• Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Sports, Injury

  "Yao Ming: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 10, 2009.

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• If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

  Debra Winger

  Patience, Prayer, Moving

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• Meditation is a way of slowing down so as to descend into the depths of yourself in the present moment, where God lies waiting to grant you a deep experience of your eternal oneness with God.

  James Finley

  Lying, Oneness, Meditation

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• How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can’t slow down? They can’t slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.

  James Redfield

  Stress, People, Routine

  James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)

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• extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Stress, Tunnels, Vision

  Malcolm Gladwell (2006). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.168, Penguin UK

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• Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I don’t write every day, the characters begin to stale off in my mind – they begin to seem like characters instead of real people. The tale’s narrative cutting edge starts to rust and I begin to lose my hold on the story’s plot and pace. Worst of all, the excitement of spinning something new begins to fade. The work starts to feel like work, and for most writers that is the smooch of death.

  Stephen King

  Real, Writing, Character

  "22 lessons from Stephen King on how to be a great writer". www.businessinsider.com. August 11, 2015.

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• I have a great drive to make things and sometimes I forget to slow down a little.

  Rebecca Miller

  Littles, Sometimes, Forget

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and people will want more time for a contemplative life. There is no way people can keep up this pace. No one is happy. Two or three hours to read should not be an unattainable thing, although I hope we get to that stage without needing a corporate sponsored app to hold our hand. The utopian in me has my fingers crossed that we haven't quite figured out the digital future just yet. After all, the one thing we know about people: they always surprise.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Contemplative Life, Hands

  "Junot Díaz: a life in books" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Differences, Lazy

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• If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Mountain, Speed

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Age, Slowing

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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• For someone like me, who loves to sweat and push herself, it's a challenge to slow down, to sit, to breathe and hold poses.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Yoga, Sweat, Challenges

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• Soul-the spiritual principle, the creative spark of God-cannot work if you panic. Anxiety shuts down the creative centers. When you can't think, whatever you try to do becomes one blunder piled upon another. If you slow down, the spiritual principle can begin working through you so that you can figure out the solution to the problem that is bothering you.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Thinking, Bothering You

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• You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

  Joan Rivers

  Doctors, Police, Age

  "Joan Rivers' best burns, quotes and quips" by Andrea Waguespack, www.sfgate.com. September 04, 2014.

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• One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me. When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.

  Mario Lemieux

  Hate, Hockey, Nhl

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