Slack Quotes

#1. There are a lot of things that Slack gives you that email doesn't when you think about internal use. Switching to Slack from email for internal communication gives you a lot more transparency.

Stewart Butterfield

#2. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.

Adam Smith

#3. The outlook on practice is we really have to prepare harder. We really have to focus harder on everything - we can't slack off. Any slacking off is going to put us behind.

Darrion Scott

#4. Besides, when I take you to bed, we're going to stay there for a long, long time. I don't want the sun to interrupt us, which it would in just a few hours." Did he say hours? Gabriel kissed my slack mouth and asked, "No response?" "Yay?

Molly Harper

#5. Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

Jeannette Walls

#6. I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.

Zooey Deschanel

#7. I do nothing all day, but I am tired. Lethargy has settled into me. I feel slack and languid. Does this mean I am starting to accept this life?

David Ely

#8. Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

Ethan Coen

#9. Paul, there is something very slack about a future that will take a biting satire for a vapid dream.

R.A. Lafferty

#10. I am
Opposite of weak
Opposite of slack
Synonym of heat
Synonym of crack
Closest to the peak
Far from a punk
Y'all ought to stop talking
And start trying to catch up

Mike Shinoda

#11. The minister said, "Let us pray," but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten. After a moment, he whispered, "We gotta fake pray," and bowed his head.

John Green

#12. God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.

Martin Luther

#13. He'd been coiled like a snake for years and the tension had gone slack and when he was ready to spring the spring wasn't there, but it could be recoiled.

Tim O'Brien

#14. When I act politely, I build a reserve of goodwill in others. That reserve allows those people to cut me some slack when I do something annoying.

John Elder Robison

#15. Freedom granted by your rulers is just a chain with a little slack.

Seth Dickinson

#16. The vampire stared at me, his mouth slack as Ghastek assessed his options. I took a couple of forms from my desk, put them into the vamp's mouth, and pulled them up by their edges.
"What are you doing?" Ghastek asked.
"My hole puncher broke."
"You have no respect for the undead.

Ilona Andrews

#17. There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a means of preserving their own power. When you're using Slack, everyone can see what's going on because the default mode is public.

Stewart Butterfield

#18. One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

John Catsimatidis

#19. He does not see as i have that you have given him your heart, but he is male. We will cut him some slack for that handicap, yes?

Katie MacAlister

#20. The instructor stared at me with cold, cut-me-no-slack determination, then got into a fighting stance, holding one hand out, beckoning me.
"I saw that movie too!"I said."It was like the coolest movie of all-"
He launched himself at me.
That was when his day really went downhill.

James Patterson

#21. WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

Tom Brady

#22. Its not that I'm in love with myself, I'm just trying to pick up everyone else's slack.

Zach Braff

#23. Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about.

Gaelen Foley

#24. The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

Ezra Pound

#25. Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

Heywood Broun

#26. He'd imagined a dark, grim mining village, full of slack faced children, the product of a long term inbreeding programme.

Allan Watson

#27. It's possible to make an organization more efficient without making it better. That's what happens when you drive out slack.

Tom DeMarco

#28. The best scientific minds of the system were staring at the data with their jaws slack, and the reason no one was panicking yet was that no one could agree on what they should panic about.

James S.A. Corey

#29. The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

Douglas Rushkoff

#30. You need to remember to give yourself enough slack to work with, but too much and you'll soon find yourself entangled and bleeding.

Andrew Ervin

#31. A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it.

George Eliot

#32. This is a theater," Bertie, annoyed by the inquisition, dropped him onto stage. Several feet of slack cable landed atop the fairy in a slithering heap.
"Oh!" Peaseblossom said. "You've buried him alive!

Lisa Mantchev

#33. Cut yourself some slack. Remember, one hundred years from now, all new people. - Message tacked to a tree by monks at Wat Umong, a 700-year-old temple in Thailand

Jenny Blake

#34. Great romantics are granted lots of slack.

Pat Conroy

#35. The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense.

Michelle M. Pillow

#36. Don't hang yourself with the slack you've been given.

Krista Ritchie

#37. God does not slack his promises because of our sins... or hasten them because of our righteousness and merits. He pays no attention to either.

Martin Luther

#38. Your twisting is done
you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?

Sarah Waters

#39. The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.

Samuel R. Delany

#40. I like alternating commercials with movies, because it keeps the pace up. You can't slack on a commercial. You need to go fast. That's a terrific piece of action, I think if that was scheduled for a movie, you'd put that in for two or three days worth of work.

Paul W. S. Anderson

#41. Her face was slack with decay, the lower half slewed to one side, her grin wider than ever. It was a knowing grin, and why not? The dead understand everything. She was surrounded by her loyal court.

Stephen King

#42. And maybe there will be,
after all,
some slack and perfectly balanced
blind and rough peace, finally,
in the deep and green and utterly motionless pools after all that
falling?

Mary Oliver

#43. No one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.

Martin Luther

#44. He was close to Reacher's own height and weight, but slack and swollen, in a shirt as big as a circus tent, above a belt buckled improbably low, under a belly the size of a kettle drum. His face was pale, and his hair was colorless.

Lee Child

#45. She turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.

Mark Twain

#46. The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.

Josh Homme

#47. I think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway ... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak.

Alden Ehrenreich

#48. I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

Casey Abrams

#49. When stress is the problem, slack is the solution.

Tom DeMarco

#50. My energy flagged because of heavy cold but the guys took up the slack.

Robin Trower

#51. The heart that bleeds, knows true heartache.-Nina Jean Slack

Nina Jean Slack

#52. I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

Katherine Boo

#53. As budget cuts cripple civilian agencies and programs, they lose their ability to perform ad they once did, so we look to the military to pick up the slack. . . . This requires still higher military budgets, which continues the devastating cycle.

Rosa Brooks

#54. Slack work is like vandalism because it makes life harder for people - just like vandalism.

Matt Perman

#55. Those who work hard will succeed,
While those who slack at their work will be in need

Tristan D.M.R.

#56. You're afraid the other tabbies will start thinking like me. You're afraid they'll start thinking, period! You wouldn't know what to do with a woman who has ideas of her own, and your vacant, slack-jawed stare right now proves it.

Rachel Vincent

#57. Yukiko stared back at him. Slurred words and a soft stare, that stupefied, slack-jawed look slinking over his face and turning his skin to gray. An anesthetic, numbing the pain of well deserved loss.

Jay Kristoff

#58. All right. Here's the deal. You're eight," he said. "I'm nine," I said. "Do I look like I carry an abacus with your name on it? Cut me some slack here, son.

Justin Halpern

#59. Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure ... but now you've just gone nuts!

Mike Mignola

#60. Centerless pop-culture country full of marginalized subnations that are themselves postmodern, looped, self-referential, self-obsessed, voyeuristic, passive, slack-jawed, debased.

D.T. Max

#61. You were a living reminder of what I always professed to believe, that you never know what happened to someone that day, so try to cut some slack, but being bound by my own ropes I was unable to give you that.

Mary-Louise Parker

#62. Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.

Patrick DeWitt

#63. So few things we need to know.
And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow slack.
Like renunciation. Like the melancholy beauty
of giving it all up. Like walking steadfast
in the rhythms, winter light and summer dark.
And the time for cutting furrows and the dance

Robert Hass

#64. Lean toward love at all times, cut people slack, forgive and forget, and be kind, very kind; the more you do that, the less fear you will have. People will raise up to support you. Refuse to be scared in this lifetime.

Stuart Wilde

#65. Growth or stagnation? There is no in-between. Life always seeks more of itself and death picks up the slack.

Christopher Babson

#66. My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front!

Sarojini Naidu

#67. Showers and sunshine bring,
Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth;
To put their foliage out, the woods are slack,
And one by one the singing-birds come back.

William C. Bryant

#68. This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost us the election, and yet if we were to have them killed, we would be the ones to go to jail. That's democracy for you!

Winston Churchill

#69. We all can't be friends. But we can cut each other some slack.

Lena Williams

#70. What I call bankruptcy of inventiveness is often the result of a failure to set aside the resources necessary to let invention happen. The principal resource needed for invention is slack. When companies can't invent, it's usually because their people are too damn busy.

Tom DeMarco

#71. All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.

Sam Kean

#72. In Slack, you create channels to discuss different topics. For a small group of people, those channels are relatively easy to manage and navigate.

Stewart Butterfield

#73. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#74. Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.

Nenia Campbell

#75. But she was used to that by now, used to this kind of waiting, that was slack as worn elastic yet had the tautness of wire.

Sarah Waters

#76. I have to do draft after draft ... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.

Donald Hall

#77. I don't pay much attention to magazine covers. One day, there'll be slack times in my career. It's unavoidable, because success is temporary. Which is why you have to stay focused on this very taxing job.

Lea Seydoux

#78. A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.

Wes "Scoop" Nisker

#79. He'll also cut you some slack if you're astonishingly stupid in an amusing fashion. Granny claimed that this explains why uncountable millions of breathtakingly stupid people get along just fine in life.

Dean Koontz

#80. He knew what he'd see; one more slack face, one more pair of eyes that had barely learned to read, one more soul that had stared into itself too long.

Justin Cronin

#81. Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

Walter Lippmann

#82. The sun is a joke. Oranges can't titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies.

Nathanael West

#83. Read it, ya slack eared, short tusk mongrel." - Grormoth Wraithmane

D.W. Johnson

#84. No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.

Jim Butcher

#85. Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway.
Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious

E. Lockhart

#86. I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.

Grant Morrison

#87. If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years.

Christopher Monckton

#88. The whole idea is that the combination of tight activity and slack activity allows me to be both productive and creative at the same time. In the four years that I am actually working in a proper job, I am earning money and I'm also writing with a lot of discipline on the side.

Karan Bajaj

#89. PlayStation consolidated the second wave of gaming. There was a slack period before it came when nothing much was happening.

Jeff Minter

#90. ...life, like a wire, requires tension on both ends. You care to live and someone else cares that you live. What's the point of holding the slack end?

Melanie Finn

#91. For answer, he threw off the covers, swung his legs over the edge of the high bed, reached for the floor with his bare feet, and stood up tottering. Then he fell forward onto his knees, his head swinging loose, slack as a killed buck.

Ross Macdonald

#92. For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period.

Ian Macfarlane

#93. I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality that people can, if not necessarily forgive me those sins, at least cut me some slack.

Ron Eldard

#94. I don't take a day off. I don't slack. All I know is hard-nose football. There ain't no breaks or vacations for me.

Corey Dillon

#95. How many times," continued Lindsay Noseworth, second-in-command here and known for his impatience with all manifestations of the slack, "have you been warned, Suckling, against informality of speech?

Thomas Pynchon

#96. Managerial discretion can take many forms, some very subtle. Individual managers may run slack operations; they may pursue subgoals that are at variance with corporate purposes; they can engage in self-dealing.

Oliver E. Williamson

#97. I was supposed to be cool about this, yeah, I remember - cool was the plan. Tried to keep it all under wraps, but the wraps kept going slack. I keep turning round, I keep coming back.

Ani DiFranco

#98. Those who will work hard will succeed,
While those shop choose to slack at their work will be in need.

Tristan Riggs

#99. Help, Lord, will suit us living and dying, suffering or labouring, rejoicing or sorrowing. In Him our help is found, let us not be slack to cry to Him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#100. You can't let your employees work from home out of fear they'll slack off without your supervision, you're a babysitter, not a manager. Remote work is very likely the least of your problems.

Jason Fried