Quotes About Slowness

#1. Emulate nature; see! A flower creates it's beauty with openness, kindness, slowness and with harmony.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Slowness seems to be a key element in living a rich life. I don't mean rich in the sense of money. I mean rich in the ability to feel things as they're happening, to not constantly be thinking of the next thing.

Melanie Gideon

#3. Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

H.L. Mencken

#4. Some people like to travel by train because it combines the slowness of a car with the cramped public exposure of an airplane.

Dennis Miller

#5. War was about yawning chasms of inactivity, punctuated by brief, screaming interludes of action. And in those brief, screaming interludes, events happened both quickly and with dreamlike slowness, every instant burned into memory.

Alastair Reynolds

#6. 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

#7. Enjoy the beauty of simplicity and slowness of life, let go of urgency, stress, and anxiety of life.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Human contact wears things out with disheartening slowness.

Henri Barbusse

#9. 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

#10. Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

Baron De Montesquieu

#11. For he had acquired a lore in his youth which taught him ever to avoid the aged when merry plans were afoot; for the aged would come with their wisdom and slowness of thought, and other plans would be made, and there would be, at least, delay.

Lord Dunsany

#12. I now realize that I habitually fight against a leisurely pace; I resist giving in to slowness.

Daniel Klein

#13. It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working.

Michael Apted

#14. As actors, we need a moment to take a breath and have a moment of slowness.

Emily Kinney

#15. The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.

Carl Honore

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

Lewis Buzbee

#17. I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.

Alfred Kastler

#18. Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#19. 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

#20. 6. Slowness of movement is the key to awareness, and awareness is the key to learning. As

Norman Doidge

#21. Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.

Baltasar Gracian

#22. There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

Graham Greene

#23. 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

#24. Urgency fills our life with stress and anxiety. but slowness, simplicity, and love fill our life with beauty and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#25. We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.

Alex Campbell

#26. As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed productivity. Even the arts are expected to conform to the Taylor model of productivity.

Junot Diaz

#27. Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Pope Francis

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Joseph Roux

#31. 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

#32. In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#33. Khouri had never really given much thought to the slowness of light. There was nothing in the universe that moved faster ... but, as she now saw, it was glacial compared to the speed that would be needed to keep their love alive.

Alastair Reynolds

#34. We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#35. Her unintended striptease was all the more sensual because Belle was lowering her stocking with agonizing slowness not because she had an audience but because she seemed to love the feel of the silk sliding along her soft skin.

Julia Quinn

#36. We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.

Seneca The Younger

#37. Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness. "I've always loved them for their beauty and their scent, but--"
"It's because of their thorns." His muscles tensed at her touch. "Because there's more to them than first meets the eye.

Renee Ahdieh

#38. Why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared? Ah, where have they gone, the amblers of yesteryear? Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk song, those vagabonds who roam from one mill to another and bed down under the stars?

Milan Kundera

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

Cesare Pavese

#40. No," I said finally.
"Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?"
"1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

Connie Willis

#41. Ulver Seich woke up in the best possible way. She surfaced with a languorous slowness through fuzzy layers of luxurious half-dreams and memories of sweetness, sensuality and sheer carnal bliss ... to find it all merging rather splendidly into reality, and what was happening right now.

Iain M. Banks

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. Universe will be a very small place once we solve our speed problem! When that day comes, no man will talk about the greatness of the universe! All greatness comes from our smallness and from our slowness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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 M. Banks

#48. The danger isn't the river's speed, friend, but its slowness.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#52. Aromatherapy in lovemaking inspires us to slow down and enjoy the process of creation with our beloved. It takes time to smell, create, drop, and blend together. Slowness and anticipation of what's to come is part of the fun. Savor the moment or, with luck, hours.

Elana Millman

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

Shinichi Suzuki

#54. I gathered his words like an old woman who picks up spilled beads, and his slowness gave me opportunity to consider the light and color and life in each.

Sue Harrison

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

Henry Thomas Buckle

#56. With deliberate slowness, he trailed a finger from the inside of her calf to the middle of her inner thigh. "Don't you dare move."
"You're so bossy."
"My bed, my rules.

Avery Flynn

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

Hannah More

#58. Fork you, Kyle," she said and took a bite of her duck, chewing it with deliberate slowness.
"Fork yourself, Lanie," he replied, irritated by her rant.
She got quiet for a minute, swallowed, and then said barely above a whisper, "I tried but it didn't work. That's why I have you.

M.K. Schiller

#59. On he went, one foot in front of the other. Now that he accepted the slowness of himself, he took pleasure in the distance he covered.

Rachel Joyce

#60. Part of me thinks the slowness is on your side.

Kiera Cass

#61. What I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#62. Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing
its goodness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#63. Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Phil Crosby

#64. At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

Henri Barbusse

#65. 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

#66. Man always behave like a snail on the railway! He thinks he has infinite time and moves accordingly, with the speed of unbelievable and nerve-wracking slowness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#67. I like organised things. I don't like the corruption and slowness of Greece.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#68. There is always
laughter out of the speeding
vehicles for the man
who is still, half-way though he be
in a better direction.

R.S. Thomas

#69. Ah! the joys of linger...

Aporva Kala

#70. Pono always say slow-motion vulgar.

Kiana Davenport

#71. Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.

Alain De Botton

#72. I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

Rebecca Solnit

#73. They never see what they're too much of a hurry to look for

Norton Juster

#74. I swear if Washington moved any slower, we could be at war and it would all be over before they could even lift their sluggish, naked, dead asses off of their comfortable heated-seat toilets. -Fitzhugh to Captain Jeeter

Ray Palla