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• The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

  Robert Bresson

  Eye, Two, Silence

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.30, New York Review of Books

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• The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

  Ann Wigmore

  Motivational, Powerful, Food

  Ann Wigmore (1984). “The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program”, p.9, Penguin

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• Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it’s a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a volatile mix of messy reality, wild freedom, frustrating stuckness, increasing slowness and a healthy dose of gratitude

  Mike Yaconelli

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Reality

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• A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

  Hannah More

  Envy, Spirit, Cold

  Hannah More (1862). “The Life of Hannah More: With Selections from Her Correspondence”, p.38

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• Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Years, Discrepancies Between, Culture

  Interview with Marcus Fairs, www.iconeye.com. June 2004.

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• There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Secret, Forget

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• There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Patience, Affair

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• Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.

  Robert Greene

  Pride, Worry, People

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.140, Profile Books

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• We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gains, Quickness, Loses

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• Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!

  Iain Banks

  Fall, Age, Looks

  "Excession" by Iain Banks, Bantam Books hardcover edition, (p. 212), 1996.

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• The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter.  In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.

  Nick Bantock

  Country, Stars, Needs

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• All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.

  Graham Swift

  Book, Pride, Years

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• Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Nature, Luxury, Silence

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• Sin does not always drive us to drink; more often it drives us to exhaustion. Tiredness is equally as debilitating as drunkenness. Burnout is slang for an inner tiredness, a fatigue of our souls. Jesus came to forgive us all of our sins, including the sin of busyness. The problem with growth in the modern church is not the slowness of growth but the rushing of growth.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Rushing, Soul

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.

  Glenn Ligon

  Giving, World, Kind

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• Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast….Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  People, Doe, Way

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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• Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

  Phil Crosby

  Change, Fear, Mean

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• Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Genius, Mediocrity, Chess

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• The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Allies, Bookstores, Limits

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• The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

  Carlo Petrini

  Food, Simple, Quests

  Carlo Petrini (2007). “Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should be Good, Clean, and Fair”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and enterprise of their opponents, proved of the greatest service, especially to a maritime empire like Athens. Indeed this was shown by the Syracusans, who were most like the Athenians in character, and also most successful in combating them.

  Thucydides

  Character, Successful, Two

  Thucydides (1978). “The history of the Peloponnesian War: illustrated with maps from the 1820 Oxford edition”

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• Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

  Paul Nurse

  Philosophy, Real, Careers

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• In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Procrastination, Hateful, Affair

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.119

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• Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Believe, Maturity, Men

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• A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Children, Educational, Environment

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