Top 21 Quotes About The Hare And The Tortoise
#1. Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.
Charles Warren Stoddard
#2. Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise
Robert Lloyd
#3. When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.
Mireille Guiliano
#4. That philosopher who said we think, therefore we are, should have spent an hour in the maternity ward of Waite Memorial Hospital. He'd have had to change his whole philosophy. The
Janet Fitch
#5. I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.
Warren Buffett
#6. One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare ...
Clement Greenberg
#7. How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C.S. Lewis
#8. And good luck to you, tortoise," whispered the hare, leaning in close. "And just so you know - nobody knows this, and if you tell anyone I said it, I'll deny it - but I'm not really a hare. I'm a rabbit." This wasn't true - the hare just said it to fuck with him.
B.J. Novak
#9. Good habits are the basic tools that will determine whether you are a tortoise
or hare in life!
Lucas Remmerswaal
#10. It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.
Megan Whalen Turner
#12. You must really want to win with all of your heart! Plan your race; do not ever get side tracked. Focus on your goal - "the finishing line"!
Lucas Remmerswaal
#14. The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.
Northrop Frye
#15. If the hare makes too many missteps and has to keep adjusting, the tortoise wins. If the tortoise spends too much time planning each step, the hare wins.
Paul Kalanithi
#16. The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.
Taiichi Ohno
#17. We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.
Charlie Munger
#18. The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.
Kurt Vonnegut
#19. Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#20. The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
John Major
#21. In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
Anita Brookner
