Top 100 Quotes About Slow Down

#1. What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.

Richard Russo

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#2. Give me your morning. Breakfast, waking up, walking to the bus stop. Be as specific as possible. Slow down in your mind and go over the details of the morning.

Natalie Goldberg

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#3. Ask yourself to slow down.

Mary Anne Radmacher

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#4. She had to stay alert, ready to chivvy any of the hulking beasts who tried to slow down or escape, but now the herd had settled into a steady, drumming rhythm. This

Erin Hunter

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#5. I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

Ricky Skaggs

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#6. Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

Bob Kerrey

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#7. The magical gem bracelet, in all of its yellow beauty, was out of its league. My mind and heart couldn't slow down." --- Jennifer Mills

Dianne Bright

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#8. EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to slow down this process, which is being pushed forward without significant public participation.

Vaclav Klaus

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#9. Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.

Ernie J Zelinski

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#10. At last they heard the sound of slow shuffling footsteps approaching the door from the inside. It seemed, as the Mole remarked to the Rat, like some one walking in carpet slippers that were too large for him and down at heel; which was intelligent of Mole, because that was exactly what it was.

Kenneth Grahame

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#11. It's good for you to write down your thoughts. It's
therapeutic because it forces you to slow down and think about
life.

Katie Kacvinsky

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#12. I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.

Viggo Mortensen

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#13. What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.

Erik Brynjolfsson

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#14. It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Eileen Caddy

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#15. The current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

W.G. Sebald

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#16. Life NEVER slows down.

Lauren Holly

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#17. The paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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#18. Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

Letitia Baldrige

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#19. If you asked my dad about selecting any kind of professional career, he'd tell you, "Don't make a date with a heart attack." Meaning: You've got to pace yourself and not forget to slow down. No job is forever. So relax and have some fun.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#20. We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

Afrika Bambaataa

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#21. If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.

Laurie Helgoe

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#22. I'm going to slow down a little bit, but I won't stop creating. I can't!

Brian Pinkerton

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#23. Maybe at 87 you slow down a drop, but between 44 and 64, there is no difference.

Jessica Hecht

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#24. I'd like to make time slow down.

Ryan Seacrest

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#25. If life is becoming a race, could it be time to slow down?el

Evinda Lepins

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#26. I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast.

Lewis Black

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#27. Nothing is so rewarding than the patience that you take to go over the ramps of life. They may slow you down, but you are an unstoppable hero. Keep driving!

Israelmore Ayivor

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#28. Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.

John McEnroe

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#29. When the developed grow fast, the developing grow fast, and when the developed slow down, the developing slow down.

Arthur Lewis

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#30. Fantasies die slow, quiet deaths. They're like cherry blossoms breaking away and sailing down slowly, still holding onto their color and their softness and beauty, but ending up on the ground to be blown out by cold winds.

V.C. Andrews

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#31. The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you're able to let life meet life. If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down ...

Natalie Goldberg

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#32. I've always been looking ahead, which is a good thing, but getting married slows you down and kids slow you down, a little bit. You look ahead, but you've gotta learn to enjoy what you have.

Brendan Fehr

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#33. In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you'd be more likely to slow things down.

Bill Gates

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#34. Cancer isn't going to slow me down.

Ethan Zohn

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#35. Don't look back, don't slow down, and don't trust anyone. Be anyone but himself, and never be anyone for too long.

Nora Sakavic

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#36. That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by others as a reminder of what it is like to be alive. Because we are most often distracted from that. Massively distracted.

Adam Haslett

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#37. We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can't slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

Alan Watts

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#38. I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.

Olivia Newton-John

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#39. ...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen.

Eve Chase

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#40. When we try to make things go faster, we usually slow things down. When we try to make things easier, we usually make them harder. Don't try to manufacture your own miracles. Don't try to answer your own prayers. Don't try to do God's job for Him. Stay humble. Stay patient. Stay focused.

Mark Batterson

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#41. I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

J.K. Rowling

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#42. Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

David Duchovny

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#43. Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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#44. You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.

Saul Perlmutter

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#45. In the name of Jesus Christ, who was never in a hurry, we pray, O God, that You will slow us down, for we know that we live too fast. With all of eternity before us, make us take time to live
time to get acquainted with You, time to enjoy Your blessings, and time to know each other.

Peter Marshall

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#46. Lord Petyr," Ned called after him. "I ... am grateful for your help. Perhaps I was wrong to distrust you." Littlefinger fingered his small pointed beard. "You are slow to learn, Lord Eddard. Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed down off your horse.

George R R Martin

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#47. Never stop! Slow down sometimes, but never stop!

Terry Crews

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#48. The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing

Mary Oliver

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#49. P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.

Paulo Freire

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#50. The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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#51. I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

Alan Lightman

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#52. By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

Donna Shalala

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#53. I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.

Sue Grafton

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#54. It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.

Joel Coen

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#55. Keep your focus on the things you can actually control. Choosing to center on anything else will either stop you in your tracks or significantly slow you down.

Sherene McHenry

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#56. Einstein once postulated that if you traveled at an enormous rate of speed, time would actually slow down relative to the world you left behind,
so that seeing the future without aging alongside it was at least theoretically, possible.

Mitch Albom

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#57. Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

J.B. Priestley

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#58. Most people don't pray until they're in trouble.
When people need help they pray a lot.
But after they get what they want, they slow down.
If a man takes five showers a day, his body will be clean.
Praying five times a day helps me clean my mind.

Muhammad Ali

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

Eddie Cantor

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#60. Steps can then be taken to slow down the natural progression before it gets started. It doesn't work to allow all the preliminary intimacies and then hope to stop the progression just short of intercourse. Very few people have the willpower to do that.

James C. Dobson

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#61. We wanted to slow down. But one would let us.

June Carter Cash

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#62. I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.

Jef Raskin

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#63. Religion's biggest crime is to slow down the Human's Intellectual Evolution! It creates an illusion as if there is a safe port somewhere. The truth is that there is no safe port; man is in emptiness! Intellectual Evolution is our only chance to build a safe port by ourselves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#64. He wishes that time was a matter of choice. That you could live your life controlling the metronome speed it up sometimes, but mostly slow it down.

David Levithan

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#65. I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone - like writers do - with only a pencil and piece of paper as company. I'd take my sketchbook and note down all the wonderful details of other travellers.

Jane Birkin

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#66. His knowledge of country lore was a little hazy, but he felt fairly sure that if the cows lay down, it meant rain. If they were standing it would probably be fine. These cows were taking it in turns to execute slow and solemn somersaults; and Tyler wondered what it presaged for the weather.

Terry Pratchett

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#67. If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character ... Would you slow down? Or speed up?

Chuck Palahniuk

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#68. See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.

Mariah Carey

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#69. Wisely and slowly; they stumble that run fast.

Hugh Howey

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#70. We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person's uniqueness.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

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#71. See, I'm a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I'm totally into slow jams and old-school R&B, all that.

Blake Anderson

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#72. I don't need to be dead to see something like that. Besides, I know you pretty well by now. You better slow down before you run out of eligible men. This is a small town.

J.J. Cook

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#73. When we limit ourselves by being the person we "should" be, we limit our aliveness. We may achieve success but not fulfillment because we are not living out all the important truths about ourselves, truths we need to slow down to excavate.

Henna Inam

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#74. As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

Bear Grylls

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#75. People say that things like this happen in slow motion, as though you suddenly become an astronaut in the antigravity chamber of your own life. This wasn't true for me. Things were speeding up instead, and I did my best to slow them down in my mind.

Edwidge Danticat

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#76. I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

Justin Vernon

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#77. I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

Frank Gehry

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#78. Everybody in a hurry to slow down.

August Wilson

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#79. Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.

Chris Hayes

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#80. You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down.

Frederick Lenz

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#81. Even on home runs that I hit in the past, guys were like, 'Man, you need to slow down. You've got that one.

Curtis Granderson

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#82. Young people, those who think they're experts in science, there's no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation - and whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex.

Rush Limbaugh

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#83. Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

Tim Ferriss

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#84. When the storms do come; you can only allow them to slow you down, but don't let them stop you, there will be delays, detours, and disappointments but you have to keep pushing through it.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

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#85. The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.

Brooke Shields

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#86. I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

Cesar Romero

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#87. You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.

Katherine Ellison

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#88. Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

George Carlin

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#89. As young people, she says, we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#90. What Sam said?" He nodded. "He said to keep my hands off someone else's wife. But you're not going to be someone else's wife." "Slow down, speed racer." "You know what I mean," he said, opening my door.

Jamie McGuire

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#91. Time is a hard-hearted rebel, we cannot fight him or can we beg him to slow down, wait for us or stop, all we have to do is to obey his strict rules, follow him and run, he doesn't get tired, and we musn't get tired too.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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#92. Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

Charles Dickens

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#93. If you're going through hell, Keep on going, don't slow down, If you're scared, don't show it You might get out Before the devil even knows you're there.

Rodney Atkins

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#94. What I paint touches on foundational life values. Home, family, peacefulness. And one of the messages I try to constantly get across is, 'Slow it down and enjoy every moment.'

Thomas Kinkade

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#95. Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.

Ben E. King

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#96. Soul is found where life deepens us, where meaning calls to us, where trouble deters us, wherever and however we slow down in the midst of the rushing and racing at the surface level of life.

Michael Meade

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

John Lasseter

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#98. The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up.

Saul Perlmutter

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#99. Don't be in a hurry to achieve your dreams. Take a day to play with your kids and relax - your dreams will still be there tomorrow.

Lindsey Rietzsch

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#100. The moment you move faster than the slow pace of life is the moment you invite disruption and chaos to enter into your thinking. Instead, change your response to life. Don't move fast because the world around you is fast. Slow down and see life for what it truly is - special in every moment.

Neal Samudre

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