Slowing Quotes - Page 2

• You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Running, Pain

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

  Daley Thompson

  Leadership, Want, Slow Down

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• Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Meditation, Mindfulness, Attention

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Aug 06, 2014

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• If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Art, Creativity, Ideas

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• I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Fear, Military

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• But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand a poem is like trying to acquire an old-fashioned skill.

  Ian Mcewan

  Skills, Judging, Balance

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• Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop.

  Lorrie Moore

  Light, Blood, Water

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 18, 2010

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• Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop." I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead." The light died out of her eyes, her breath slowing. She whispered, barely audible, "I don't understand." I answered, "I don't either." A tear slid from her eye and mixed with the blood. Then she died.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Tired, Eye

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.358, Penguin

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• I have to get back to the hotel. But I don't know the way. I always rely on Shouji so I didn't notice where we were going. Nut I came to this point. without realising my attitude and actions. It's like I am slowing falling into a valley. I wonder where I'm standing now.

  Ai Yazawa

  Attitude, Fall, Nuts

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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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• I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of race.

  Sylvia Plath

  Running, Morning, Race

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.17, Hamilton Books

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• To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

  "The Conquest of Happiness" by Bertrand Russell, (Ch. 13), 1930.

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• ...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Loneliness, Despair, Stifling

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• Wonder why we can do this,' he called out with his mind. The mental effort of speaking to her was already straining—he felt a headache forming like a bulge in his brain. 'Maybe we were lovers,' Teresa said. Thomas tripped and crashed to the ground. Smiling sheepishly at Minho, who’d turned to look without slowing, Thomas got back up and caught up to him. 'What?' he finally asked. He sensed a laugh from her, a watery image full of color.

  James Dashner

  Color, Laughing, Effort

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.237, Scholastic UK

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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, Slow Down, Bigs

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

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• Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never could have predicted.

  Mark Strand

  Light, Littles, Slow Down

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• I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does.

  James Richardson

  Doe, Slow Down, Brown

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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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• The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds

  Carl Honore

  Meaningful, People, Mind

  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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• You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.

  Zig Ziglar

  Reality, People, Progress

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.164, Pelican Publishing

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• Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get used to that. When we really understand that, the project of reconceiving civilization itself will gain powerful impetus.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Powerful, Civilization, Gains

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self”, p.209, North Atlantic Books

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• If people want me to go round and talk to governments and others then I feel that responsibility which is why I am on the road a good deal of the time and why I'm not slowing down.

  Michael Marmot

  Responsibility, Government, People

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

  Eli Wallach

  Want, Slow Down, Ifs

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

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• At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.

  Bernie Sanders

  Office, Mail, Information

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

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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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