Quotes About Slowing Down

#1. If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

Daniel Kahneman

#2. How does one know that, before the first hello? It's a heaviness in the air combined with a lightness of step. It's a slowing down of the past, and a speeding up of the future.

Melanie Benjamin

#3. Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one's thoughts

Nick Bantock

#4. 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

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

W.G. Sebald

#6. The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism.

Paul A. Baran

#7. I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

Jason Mewes

#8. The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product.

Fernando J. Corbato

#9. Meditation is a way of slowing down so as to descend into the depths of yourself in the present moment, where God lies waiting to grant you a deep experience of your eternal oneness with God.

James Finley

#10. Clocks measure arbitrary meters of time, but not its speed. Nobody knows if time is speeding up, or slowing down. Nobody knows what it is. How much time is there in a day? Not how many hours, minutes, seconds: how much TIME do we have?
This day?

David Mitchell

#11. We have never succeeded in slowing down our nuclear fusion reactors.

Wilson Greatbatch

#12. Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs.

Gregory Hines

#13. I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

Kaye Gibbons

#14. We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady - instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm.

Christopher McDougall

#15. At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

Summer Sanders

#16. The mind-reaction was beginning to settle in, slowing down his chain of thought by seeming to increase the connotations of every idea and every bit of sensory input.

Stephen King

#17. There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.

Brad Stone

#18. The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures.

Don Kardong

#19. I am done slowing down, giving people their time and space, letting them explore their options.

Marla Miniano

#20. slowing down an activity may meet with greater success than doing it quickly.

Linda Lantieri

#21. Thousand of Virginia's are losing their coverage, facing skyrocketing insurance premiums and losing their doctors under Obamacare. Employers across the Commonwealth say that the law is preventing or slowing down hiring and growth.

Rob Wittman

#22. It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#23. As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

Marvin Hamlisch

#24. It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

Bill Gates

#25. It is almost a cliche to hear people talking about 'slowing down' but it is true. I have slowed down and through slowing, I see so much more.

Cecelia Ahern

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

Sharon Salzberg

#27. I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true, and I couldn't hide the truth much longer. 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 the race.

Sylvia Plath

#28. As you focus your attention on the heart center, you will begin to feel your thoughts slowing down. You'll begin to feel your mind becoming calm and quiet. They won't bother you.

Frederick Lenz

#29. I think that the feel that maybe China is slowing down means it will be buying less from Africa and Latin America. That means Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola will sell less in Latin America and Africa. And so it is definitely related.

David Wessel

#30. Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

Mignon McLaughlin

#31. 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

#32. The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.

Steven Lopez

#33. Other inner peace quotes encourage letting go of the desire to control everything around us, and slowing down as ways of attaining inner peace.

Brian Weiss

#34. I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Diane Keaton

#35. The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.

Danica Patrick

#36. When you're hungry for success, don't let anyone feed you crap about slowing down.

Marie Forleo

#37. He had been slowing down, the way one, half asleep, continually rereads the same paragraph trying to find a connection between sentences.

Michael Ondaatje

#38. To the contrary, when you look at projections, both Polish and international, we can expect some slowing down of the rate of growth in the coming year, 2012. But of course these are projections.

Marek Belka

#39. Patience requires a slowing down, a spaciousness, a sense of ease.

Allan Lokos

#40. As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

Haruki Murakami

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

Eli Wallach

#42. But as much as life is sometimes about knowing what you want and going after it and finishing, maybe other times it's about slowing down and shutting up and waiting. There's not always a clear beginning and obvious end. Sometimes we're in the middle . . . and it's okay to camp out there for a while.

Melissa Tagg

#43. Slowing down your responses and becoming a better listeners aids you in becoming a more peaceful person

Richard Carlson

#44. In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and distractions, of slowing down and simply being alone with our thoughts.

Carl Honore

#45. No. You cared. The rest of them were slowing down to see the blood on the road." There had been plenty of it.

C.D. Reiss

#46. We live in a society of {more, faster, and extra.} So we feel the need to respond {more, faster, and extra.} Such a useless exercise. So much joy can be found in slowing down.

Emily Ley

#47. I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.

Gillian Jacobs

#48. Our food is a sign of what we've lost in general. I think if we could start slowing down for food, and rebuilding the quality of our plates, we could start rebuilding what we've lost in our culture. As my boss says, culture starts in the kitchen, not in the opera house.

Rod Dreher

#49. I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs

Lenny Breau

#50. Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy.

Amy Tan

#51. Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.

David Vann

#52. Growing old can mean more than slowing down; it can be a time of truly growing down and incarnating further. Because the inner genius that tries to incarnate through us will keep calling for us to awaken further until we come to the end of our life adventure.

Michael Meade

#53. 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

#54. Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.

Tim Ferriss

#55. I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way.

Amanda Beard

#56. By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

Carl Honore

#57. Historically, I'm not a great patient when it comes to slowing down.

Michael Keaton

#58. Tennis is a traditional game. A big sport like tennis does not need too many changes. The game has become too fast, there are hardly any long, interesting rallies these days. So maybe slowing down the courts could help. But you can't really stop a sport from evolving.

Bjorn Borg

#59. 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

#60. But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

Lindsey Buckingham

#61. Slowing down is sometimes the best way to speed up.

Mike Vance

#62. If you're not too busy this evening, why don't you bring your soft shoes and your pads over to officers' row and we'll go waltzing Matilda? Say about eight o'clock." "Yes, sir." "That's not an order, that's an invitation. If you really are slowing down,

Robert A. Heinlein

#63. Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

Donna Farhi

#64. They are being driven by a psychopathic Indian apparently bent on killing them all, overtaking on blind rises, racing some other bus to settle an old score, hurtling into corners without slowing down.

Damon Galgut

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

Daley Thompson

#66. He searched her eyes, and there it was. A sense of time slowing down. A world melting away with only two souls remaining. An eternity of longing. Bittersweet and desperate.
Couldn't she feel it, too?

Kerrelyn Sparks

#67. For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.

Lily Tomlin

#68. Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

Colleen McCullough

#69. Time has this way of slowing down and speeding up,depending on how it feels.

Carol Lynch Williams

#70. Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment.

Michael Ray

#71. For fast-acting relief from stress, try slowing down.

Lily Tomlin

#72. Balance comes from slowing down, from taking deep breaths, from understanding your body and what it needs. It comes from accepting who you are and loving yourself every step of the way.

Rachel Brathen

#73. Im used to slowing down so that everyone else can catch up

Jennifer Niven

#74. 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

#75. I miss that moment when you're about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you're trying to figure out how exactly to get in the damn station you hear a collective sigh of 40 people behind you pissed that you're slowing down the herd.

Dan Mangan

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. If you drive fast enough on a rough road you glide over the bumps and skim the pot holes - it's a smooth ride. If you charge without fear over boulders and beach debris it's the same as running on hard flat sand. The only problem is slowing down, or stopping.

Matt Padwick

#79. It's a mistake to predict the size of markets that are so new. This model has shown no signs of slowing down. So we are going to get as much of it as we possibly can, and when we get close to that we'll figure out other problems.

Eric Schmidt

#80. Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of entropy when all it's thermal and mechanical functions fail, thus rendering all human endeavors ultimately pointless. Just to put the gig in some sort of context.

Bill Bailey

#81. Her correspondence had been like the pumping of a heart into a severed artery, wild and incessant at first, then slowing down with a kind of muscular reluctance to a stream that became a trickle and finally ceased; the heart had stopped.

Michael Chabon

#82. I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

Ashley Judd

#83. At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.

Kathleen Turner

#84. This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong its life by slowing down some of the activities which are wearing it out, but death always looms somewhere on the horizon.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#85. Slowing down reminds you that the journey is supposed to be fun.

Anne Bancroft

#86. Life is fast, and I've found it's easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I'm slowing down, way down, in order to give my full presence to the extraordinary that infuses each moment and resides in every one of us.

Andrew Forsthoefel

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

James Richardson

#88. When can I drive the new ride?" "When you learn that a yellow light means haul ass to get through it before it turns red instead of slowing down to a crawl a half a block away.

J.D. Robb

#89. I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

Chanel Iman

#90. I think I've always been aware of it with my music. I think growing up basically and having a lot to deal with and just slowing down and having something to say and something to retract from, I think I just knew that what I was doing was extremely honest.

Justin Vernon

#91. Here Mrs. Wiggins, who had been slowing down gradually, came to a full stop. "Good land, Charles," she said, looking down at the rooster, "I can't remember all those big words. That was a real nice speech you wrote out for me, but I guess you'll just have to let me tell it in my own way." Charles

Walter R. Brooks

#92. Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about.

W. Edwards Deming

#93. The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests

Jane Goodall

#94. The physical act of meditating by closing one's eyes and slowing down the speed of internal thoughts - especially worrisome thinking - results in a physiological response that is well documented in the scientific literature.

Tim McCarthy

#95. Learn to pause...or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

Doug King

#96. 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

#97. Fake Canadian superstition: If you allow your pet bear to sleep in your bed, it will ruin your breathing by slowing it down or stopping it entirely.

Matthew Santoro

#98. 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

#99. Look, the light turns yellow before it turns red, so if you see a yellow light, you might want to consider slowing the hell down.

Leila Sales

#100. Driving through them, most places look about the same as most others. Walking around is how you get the sense of a place's character. Walking keeps you slow enough to notice the little things.

Michael G. Williams