Slowness Quotes

• The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

  Milan Kundera

  Inspirational, Time, Freedom

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• Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Doe, Way, Strategy

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.42, Bottom of the Hill

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• The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Degrees, Forget

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• There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

  Graham Greene

  Virtue, Lost

  "Monsignor Quixote". Book by Graham Greene, 1982.

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• I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Novelists, Would Be, Pace

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.211, A&C Black

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• I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.442, Courier Corporation

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• Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Causes, Greater

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.440, Library of Alexandria

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Devil, Haste

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• The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Sleep, Expression

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• I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• We have to slow the rhythm of rush in our lives so that the best of who are can emerge.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Oct 09, 2014

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• Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

  Eddie Cantor

  Life, Missing You, Retirement

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• The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

  Mark Twain

  Ideas, World, Curious

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.194, Courier Corporation

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• When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

  Alain Prost

  Motivational, Motor Racing, Race

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

  Francis Galton

  Nature, Kindness, Lying

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• If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

  Arturo Toscanini

  Music, Play, Want

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• what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Reading, Love Is, Eggs

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2011). “Leaving Brooklyn”, p.26, Hawthorne Books

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• That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.

  Miranda July

  Drinking, Tea, Problem

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.

  Maurice Strong

  Powerful, Yield, Community

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• Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.

  Nikolaj Velimirovic

  Love, Gratitude, Peace

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• You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not lack of deciciveness or slowness, but the employment of a basic endgame principle which is 'Do not hurry'.

  Alexander Kotov

  Moving, Principles, Employment

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• The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

  Cesare Pavese

  Time, Men, Brutal

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• Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

  Franz Boas

  Opportunity, Looks, Path

  Franz Boas (1969). “Race and Democratic Society”, p.69, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Speed is not an indicator of quality in terms of fiction. That's true of one's relative slowness or swiftness - taking 10 years to write a book or taking 10 days to write a book (or a comic or a film or an angry postcard) guarantees nothing in terms of how good or how bad that story is.

  Chuck Wendig

  Book, Writing, Years

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• A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.

  Clifford Irving

  Drama, Confused, Character

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

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