Top 100 Quotes About Slow Down
#1. The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.
Chuck Liddell
#2. It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
J.K. Rowling
#3. If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.
Jana Novotna
#4. Growth happens slowly, slow down today enjoy life without been in hurry
Martin Suarez
#5. Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
Franz Grillparzer
#6. My parenting style could be described as not good cop or bad cop so much as nervous cop. I'm always yelling for somebody to stop because they're about to get hurt. I'm the take a jacket, slow down guy.
Paul Reiser
#7. If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.
Daley Thompson
#8. And Anakin is on his way despite the dread boiling through his blood. That's what makes him a real hero. Not the way the HoloNet labels him; not without fear, but stronger than fear.
He looks the dragon in the eye and doesn't even slow down.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#9. These rotary dials were like meditation, they forced you to slow down and concentrate. If you polled the next number too soon, you had to start over from the top.
Rainbow Rowell
#10. The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love.
Frederick Lenz
#11. Slow down and explain to us plebeians. If you have to, use sock puppets.
Lish McBride
#12. Has modern society lost a measure of its spiritual awareness because we take so little time to walk? In not allowing ourselves time to slow down, to be close to the earth around us, have we become impervious to a God who chooses to reveal Himself through His creation?
Amy Litzelman
#13. To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.
Henna Inam
#14. Find some quiet, private time. Allow yourself to slow down and relax. Find nature, meditate, or do nothing. Take a mental break. You'll gain the benefits of a quiet mind.
Tom Giaquinto
#15. It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.
Elon Musk
#16. Speed bumps in relationships are temporary rises in the road that signal you to slow down, step back, and reassess the situation.
Nicole Huggins
#17. 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
#18. My whole life I have been in a hurry, like running fast after a goal, and now I realize it's nice to sometimes slow down a little bit and enjoy the ride.
Luis Gerardo Mendez
#19. Sometimes you need to slow down to go fast.
Jeff Olson
#20. If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.
Joel Osteen
#22. I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.
Kate Upton
#24. We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically.
Marek Belka
#25. You know what I mean. And by the way, you should slow down."
I sighed. "You're kidding me. This is coasting. This is little old lady speed."
"NASCAR drivers would have heart attacks. Slow down before we get a ticket."
"Chicken.
Rachel Caine
#26. We need to work less to achieve more. We need to stop fighting food and start embracing it. We need to stop punishing our bodies and start providing for them. We need to slow down and enjoy and then we'll get the results we've been looking for - and sooner than we expect.
Marc David
#28. When you slow down and focus on completing one task at a time, your life will automatically diversify.
Franklin Gillette
#31. Third, slow down your breath to an unhurried six per minute. Six breaths per minute is equivalent to taking a new breath every ten seconds. Five seconds for inhalation and another five for exhalation. Studies showed that this natural rhythm
Dr. Dorothy Adamiak ND
#32. If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.
Ernie J Zelinski
#33. Life is so humbling, when we slow down and witness the gifts.
Bryant McGill
#34. Time seems to slow down for me when I focus on staying in the moment and that helps me maintain a sense of balance.
Miranda Kerr
#35. The TV is often on in our house, but I really only keep up with three shows: 'American Idol,' 'Modern Family' and 'The Walking Dead.' Sometimes I'll sip red wine - it's a nice way to slow down and relax.
Carrie Underwood
#36. If we've deluded ourselves into thinking that our angry mass emails or conversation-stopping talking points serve as a ministry or carry out the purposes of God, we need to slow down and take a breath.
David Dark
#37. Want to go really fast? Slow down and focus.
Tim Fargo
#38. The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.
Michael Palin
#39. I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.
Constance Marie
#40. I don't really know why I'm so busy, but I like it. Sometimes I think I need to slow down. And then I'm even busier!
Brianna Brown
#41. The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.
Luigi Ghirri
#42. When we slow down, sometimes way down, that's when we rise up and see the beauty that is all around us, the beauty that is always around us. And if we slow down even more, then we start to see the beauty that is in us - the preciousness, worth and value that was there all along.
Lori Cash Richards
#43. With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!
Jennifer Aniston
#44. Shane talking to Claire - "Hang on - Slow down. I'm not going anywhere. You know that, right? You don't have to put out to keep me here. Well, as long as you eventually ... " "Shut up" Claire said.
Rachel Caine
#45. Mistakes are lessons in disguise and accurate reflections of your true state. Maybe you need to slow down. Maybe your initial expectation was actually what was wrong. Maybe you need to draw more often.
Danny Gregory
#46. I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it.
Stephen King
#47. Shortly, some pipeline worker or shipfitter would slow down.
Tony Dunbar
#48. Learn to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life ... if we look closely we see they ... bring us just the right information at just the right time ...
James Redfield
#50. If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.
Richard Carlson
#51. Too many people try to do the new job, new spouse, new house, new car thing in 18 months. That's a good way to end up broke. We've got to resist the temptation to catch up with our parents in 18 months. Slow down. You have the rest of your life to play catch up. After all, it's just stuff.
Dave Ramsey
#52. Don't feel so sad and disappointed when the telephone conversation with a friend starts to slow down and become stilted. Just try to be smart, lay it gentle and see it as a great given opportunity, a set up to draw attention to your long awaited goals.
Euginia Herlihy
#53. To attain real happiness, humans need to slow down the pursuit of pleasant sensations, not accelerate it.
Yuval Noah Harari
#54. Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.
Sharon Jones
#55. The committed student needs to be wide awake, to look and listen closely, to slow down, scrutinize and reflect. The language of poetry is so dense, so multivalent, that it demands a concentrated act of attention - and offers its greatest rewards only to those who reread.
Ezra Pound
#56. When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.
Jens Nordvig
#57. Slow down and self-edit and ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything: "Does this need to be said?" "Does this need to be said by me?" "Does this need to be said by me now?"
Craig Ferguson
#58. Slow down, take time, allow yourself to be wildly diverted from your plan. People are the soul of the place; don't forget to meet them and enjoy their company as you explore a place.
David DuChemin
#59. The good Lord is amazing; He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream, and He was like, 'Hey, slow down there, buddy.'
David Nail
#60. Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.
Alan Jacobs
#61. If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.
William S. Burroughs
#62. English teachers, workshops, and myths try to make writers slow down. We are the ONLY ART on the planet that tells young artists to not practice and do less to get better. Head-shaking in its stupidity. And new writers buy into that.
Dean Wesley Smith
#63. My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.
Frank Shorter
#64. Time was like that, though - racing forward when she wanted it to slow down, then crawling to a stop when she could least bear it.
Aprilynne Pike
#65. Surgery is nature's way of telling us to slow down.
Dan John
#66. Let go of me or slow down," she demanded as she tried to keep pace with him.
He slowed down. "I swear to God, you try the patience of a saint."
"You aren't a saint, Brodick, no matter what your mother might have told you.
Julie Garwood
#67. The commercial music world which I had been a part of for so many years lost its sparkle. My focus became the creation of music which would slow down the brainwaves, so inducing a state similar to when we mediate.
John R. Levine
#68. If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.
Salman Rushdie
#69. And snow - snow is not my enemy, I tell him. Snow is God's way of telling people to slow down and rest and stay in bed for a day. And besides, snow always solves itself. Mixes with the leaves to form more earth, I tell him. Think compost, says I.
Robert Fulghum
#70. Protect Our Winters is this foundation I started in 2007, and it focuses on slowing down climate change by bringing the winter sports community together and having a strong voice to make change and slow down climate change.
Jeremy Jones
#71. Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.
Masayoshi Son
#72. Good fat contains essential fatty acids, which improve your skin quality, slow down aging, and reduce inflammation.
Marcie Tenenbaum
#73. If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.
Marion Woodman
#74. 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
#75. I find the experience of keeping a journal much more creative on paper than on a computer. When I write, I'm physically immersed in the world and slow down, whereas on screen, I use my senses in a less engaged way - and I skim more.
Keri Smith
#76. We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts, feel the movement of sentences, experience the pleasure of words
and own passages that speak to us. (p. 41)
Thomas Newkirk
#77. We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late ... We can save our planet and also boost our economy at the same time.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#78. The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.
Desmond Tutu
#79. Compete with yourself; you have no knowledge about the degree of gifting others might have. Don't decide to slow down because you have gone too far and everyone is behind you!
Israelmore Ayivor
#80. Always be careful of where you run to. When the going gets tough, take it easy and slow down, else you venture into the den of lions.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#81. My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.
Charles Edison
#82. We've seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. Why filibuster something that has that kind of support? Just to slow down the process and keep the Senate from working.
Elizabeth Warren
#83. If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life ... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?
Guy Finley
#84. Darcy was afraid to slow down, Shawn thought. If she wasn't working, wasn't busy, the bad stuff would catch up to her. But if she kept moving and focusing on work, she could fend it off.
Nina Post
#85. Slow down, totally. You have to slow down and pay attention to everything.
Norman Reedus
#86. We barely touched, I barely breathed, and time barely moved. Even my heartbeat, which thundered in my ears, seemed to slow down until every. Single. Beat had time to echo into silence before the next one took its place.
L.A. Witt
#87. I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down.
Will.i.am
#88. We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.
Paul Hawken
#89. Hang on. We're leaving grass for road," Breeze warned.
"Remind me to drive next time," Jinx grumbled. "Slow down!"
"Did you lose your yarn balls, kitten?" Breeze laughed. "This is fun!"
(Jinx is part panther)
Laurann Dohner
#90. It took teams of LEP warlocks to slow down time for a few hours; the magic required to open a door to the tunnel was stupendous. It would be easier to shoot down the moon.
Opal tapped this into her notepad.
Reminder. Shoot down the moon? Viable?
Eoin Colfer
#91. Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be Before your time Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it's the life you lead You're so ahead of yourself That you forfeit what you need Though you can see when you're wrong
Billy Joel
#92. I'd assume love was safe, like ordering the same thing at a restaurant every single time. I didn't realize that it could be a greasy roadside sandwich and vomiting, followed by a conversation that made time slow down and my heart speed up.
Alicia Thompson
#93. When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.
Ted Turner
#94. Pakosta shrugged. "The problem is how they drive. People fall asleep. Lose the road. They won't slow down or stop. I'm sick of picking dogs out of fenders.
Richard House
#95. I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.
Mary Jo Putney
#96. Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice.
Pema Chodron
#97. Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process.
Alexandra Stoddard
#98. 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
#99. The economic downturn is our wake-up call to slow down, consume less, help each other, & live more!
Phil Harding
#100. Authenticity requires us to slow down. Fast times require us to slow down. To be effective, we need to slow down our pace of thought and action and focus on managing our attention. To be authentic leaders we need to act from intention and choice rather than from habit and impulse.
Henna Inam
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