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• Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say ‘It all happened so fast.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Worst Moments, Happened, Ifs

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• The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.

  Ahmed Toufiq

  Class, Play, Nuclear

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• As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Live Life, Writing, Second Chance

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• The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one’s influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Children, Moving

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• People are running to and from class and I just want to yell, Slow down and wait for the world to catch up!

  Jessica Sorensen

  Running, Class, People

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• There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.

  David Levithan

  Pain, Heart, Boys

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.15, Egmont UK

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• And we can't avoid an inch of our own experience; if we do it causes a blur, a bleep, a puffy unreality. Our job is to wake up to everything, because if we slow down enough, we see that we are everything.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Wisdom, Jobs, Causes

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• I balance my natural drive for speed and impact with a counterbalancing drive for significance, innovation and sustained customer intimacy. This involves slowing down and moving from transactive management, which focuses on speed, content, accuracy and productivity, to transformative leadership, which focuses on significance, context, authenticity and purpose. This critical shift requires constant diligence, discipline and practice.

  Kevin Cashman

  Moving, Impact, Practice

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• Don't get discouraged. As far as I'm concerned, a positive attitude is the most important attribute any runner can have. You'll need it often. Every runner has bad days, every runner has occasional injuries, and every runner eventually slows down (take it from someone who has slowed down a lot). But as long as you maintain a positive attitude, you'll find ways to overcome the obstacles and continue running. After all, running offers countless rewards. It's simply up to you to find the ones that have the most meaning for you.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Attitude, Bad Day

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• Tennis is a traditional game. A big sport like tennis does not need too many changes. The game has become too fast, there are hardly any long, interesting rallies these days. So maybe slowing down the courts could help. But you can't really stop a sport from evolving.

  Bjorn Borg

  Sports, Games, Long

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• When we use power to cause someone else not to succeed so that we can succeed, it slows our vibratory frequency. It slows us down. When we slow down we experience unhappiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Use, Succeed

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• Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

  Donna Farhi

  Yoga, Simple, Light

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• Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.

  Steven Kotler

  Self, Flow, Welcome

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• There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.

  Agatha Christie

  Light, Color, People

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• Slow down? Rest? With all eternity before me?

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Energy, Action, Eternity

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• I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

  Kanye West

  Down And, Stuff, Futurist

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• Well, I don't ever leave out details, in that I don't come up with information or description which I don't then use. I only ever come up with what seems to me absolutely essential to make the story work. I'm not usually an overwriter. As I revise, it's usually a matter of adding in as much vivid details as seem necessary to make the story come clear without slowing down the momentum of the story.

  Kelly Link

  Essentials, Details, Momentum

  Interview with Maggie Slater, www.apex-magazine.com. Juy 2, 2013.

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• The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

  Chris Abani

  Opportunity, Down And, Privilege

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• You might slow down a little bit, you might not jump as high as you used to, but I know what I'm doing and I'm fearless.

  Barack Obama

  Fearless, Littles, Might

  "Protesters Rally to Take Down Confederate Flag; Confederate Flag Fight Shifting to Mississippi; Governor and Senators Call for Flag's Removal; Walmart CEO Speaks Out; Prisoners Left Cabin in a Hurry; Confederate Merchandise Dropped; Confederate Flag Debate". "Wolf", www.cnn.com. June 23, 2015.

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• One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.

  Mark Nepo

  Heart, Shine On, Glasses

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• One thing I am learning is to slow down. Multitasking is great, but I when try to do everything at warp speed I just end up with typos and stress.

  Ayana Mathis

  Stress, Trying, Multitasking

  "Twelve Tribes of Hattie Author Ayana Mathis Talks Fiction, Family, and (Sometimes) Faking It". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. December 17, 2012.

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• With every action oriented or adventure film, there's going to be a moment when every actor becomes a stuntman and every stuntman becomes an actor. You try to do as much of it as you can, but inevitably the studio wants you to finish the movie. So you've got to slow down and you're really got to defer to your team to make sure you do.

  Nicolas Cage

  Team, Adventure, Trying

  "Ghost Rider - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.

  John Lasseter

  Journey, Car, Enjoy Life

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• When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.

  Albert Camus

  Alarms, Bells, Faces

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Children, Real, Impact

  "World Bank Issues Alarming Climate Report". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.

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