Slow Is Fast Quotes

#1. Keep in mind that when you're working with your family, "slow" is "fast" and "fast" is

Stephen R. Covey

#2. When educating horses there is no greater maxim than slow is fast and fast is slow.

Monty Roberts

#3. Basketball doesn't care what color your skin is. It doesn't care what language you speak or what religion you practice. It doesn't care if you're big or small, fast or slow. It just asks you to play, to complete, to lose with dignity, to win humility.

Jim Calhoun

#4. Sometimes life is slow life a postal system and sometimes fast like a mail.

Lovely Goyal

#5. It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.

Stirling Moss

#6. Mind that is fast is sick, a mind that is slow is sound, and a mind that is still is divine. This is what the Bible means when it says, Be still and know that I am God.

Eknath Easwaran

#7. There are two ways to grow: by stealing from the competition or by growing the market. The first path is slow and painful and difficult. The second path is where the magic of fast growth kicks in.

Seth Godin

#8. Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.

John Pfeiffer

#9. Life is supposed to be fast, not slow. Spirits fly when worms are crawling; birds sing when the dead are moaning.

Robin Sacredfire

#10. Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God's voice. The dilemma exists in my position as well. To be a follower of Christ is to emulate Him. When He went off alone into the desert to pray, He was teaching a valuable lesson.

Jon Foreman

#11. Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.

Bill James

#12. The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything.

Stewart Brand

#13. Slow and steady wins the race, only and only if the rabbit, competent, sleeps a while. But, fast and consistency always win it, even if rabbit is awaken.

Syed Ather

#14. Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

#15. The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

Mark Van Doren

#16. I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with numbers; in fact some of them are rather slow. This is not a bad thing; they are slow because they think deeply and carefully about mathematics.

Jo Boaler

#17. The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid.
Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant.
The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.

Waseem Latif

#18. The words came so fast they seemed to roll down hill. Nobody ever calls it all that; it's just spring wheat, but I like the words. They heap up and make a picture of a spring that's slow to come, when the ground stays frozen late into March and the air is raw, and the skies are sulky and dark

Mildred Walker

#19. Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast.

George Carlin

#20. Slow, steady progress is better than fast, daily excuses.

Robin Sharma

#21. A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Meher Baba

#22. Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#23. I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

Eric Bana

#24. I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

Charles Stanley

#25. "My swing is too fast" may be the biggest misconception ever. Think about it. If you take a fast, lousy swing and slow it down, all you've got left is a slow, lousy swing. Most people swing too slow, not too fast.

Hank Haney

#26. He was working fast, yet thinking went slow enough. He knew why now. He knew now that thinking went slow and smooth with calculation, as oil is spread slowly upon a surface above a brewing storm.

William Faulkner

#27. There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!

Louis St. Laurent

#28. Because running fast is more fun than running slow.

Frank Shorter

#29. Slow and Study is boring.. Fast and Furious is Fun ... !!!

Abhijeet Sawant

#30. Reading my books is like a slice of pie,
You can eat it fast, or slow, the choice is up to you

Janelle R. Moore

#31. Extravagance of desire is the fundamental cause which has led the world into its present predicament. Fast rather than slow, more rather than less - this flashy "development" is linked directly to society's impending collapse.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#32. The uphill climb is slow,but the downhill road is fast.

John Wooden

#33. It used to be that the big eat the small; now it's the fast that eat the slow. Fast is the new big.

Daniel Burrus

#34. The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.

Chuck Liddell

#35. He took refuge in the concept that sometimes slowest is the fastest in the end.

Stephen Baxter

#36. Be as fast as Usain Bolt, the winner is the winner, even if he crawls like a crab, his destiny is unshakable.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#37. Speed is not part of the true Way of strategy. Speed implies that things seem fast or slow, according to whether or not they are in rhythm. Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.

Miyamoto Musashi

#38. The cure for moving too fast is just to slow down.

William E. Coles Jr.

#39. The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

Rupert Murdoch

#40. Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last

Walter Scott

#41. In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

Giorgio Moroder

#42. Life is moving with its own speed no matter how slow or how fast you are going.

Debasish Mridha

#43. Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#44. 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

#45. My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down.

William Ivey Long

#46. Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

Sydney J. Harris

#47. I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?

Lil' Wayne

#48. Slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.

Ransom Riggs

#49. Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.

Jill Soloway

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. Slow is steady. Steady is smooth. Smooth is fast. Fast is deadly.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#54. However tired you are, whatever the distance is, move to your target! Even if you move as slow as a snail, you will reach there! Move! Either fast or slow, just move!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#55. Love moderately. Long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
*Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*

William Shakespeare

#56. Merengue is a fast rhythm, you know, and danceable. Bachata is like a slow, romantic Caribbean bolero.

Juan Luis Guerra

#57. The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

Henry David Thoreau

#58. Time can be difficult for me. It is a continuous thing, and it has no boundaries. Sometimes it moves very fast and sometimes very slow.

Ned Hayes

#59. In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

Bela Bartok

#60. Grab what you can and fight your way to a lifeboat.' Everyone associated with the slow printed word is fast becoming the Great Crested Newt of the culture. First it was the poets, the playwrights, then the novelists. Veteran newspapermen are next.

Marisha Pessl

#61. 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

#62. A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! Universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! The day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#63. The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.

Mads Mikkelsen

#64. My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.

Robert Wilson

#65. I know all we're doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin' bullet, slow down. If I don't, I might just lose it, locked up. You've got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin', yeah. You know I've got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last.

Jay Kay

#66. Honest to God, the Qubo is so slow that if you climbed into one this morning in Hunstanton and attempted to drive south as fast as possible, coastal erosion would swallow you up by Wednesday evening.

Jeremy Clarkson

#67. Violence is so terribly fast ... the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous ... the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.

Jim Carroll

#68. I'd like to see fashion slow down a bit. What freaks me out about fashion today is the speed - the speed of consuming, the speed of ideas. When fashion moves so fast, it takes away something I always loved, which is the idea that fashion should be slightly elusive. Hard to grasp, hard to find.

Raf Simons

#69. The Internet is fast, while humans are slow; capacious,
while humans are forgetful.

Michael Chorost

#70. In quiet crevices, life is born over and over again, without witness, without recognition. It happens, feverishly or serenely, fast or slow, and the guardians or propriety remain laughably ignorant.

Mai Al-Nakib

#71. Everything too fast is not good but everything too slow is also not good. You need balance. That's why I like martial arts: it always tells you how to control your body, your mind, your heart. Balance. Balance can keep the world's peace. I think that's a very good thing.

Jet Li

#72. Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any context. If today I want to go fast, I go fast. If tomorrow I want to go slow, I go slow. What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos.

Carlo Petrini

#73. The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in the sinking of the unfit.

Felix Riesenberg

#74. The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The new order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.

Bob Dylan

#75. Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.

Jonna Amato-Ocampo

#76. It seemed like the world is moving too fast and I wanted it to stop, or at least slow down, so that I could keep up. I wanted the time to wait for me. Then I realized, life goes on, and I have to live with it.

Kcat Yarza

#77. Technically, you can't fault Jadeja. Seam or spin, fast or slow every goddamn thing is a problem.

Geoffrey Boycott

#78. Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.

Warsan Shire

#79. Slow power can grind away any stagnant enemy. But fast power, one that can travel where you go, do what you wish it to as effectively as a hammer hitting a nail, that is the power that lops off heads and steals crowns. Can I trust you with it?

Pierce Brown

#80. Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software.

Fred Wilson

#81. In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish,

Klaus Schwab

#82. Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.

Gary A. Klein

#83. The world, control phones, don't you think??? But not only phones everything, the world time and how is build make you angry and nerves. Good moments pass fast, bad pass slow, but WHY?? It's th right question?

Deyth Banger

#84. We see them come. We see them go. Some are fast. And some are slow. Some are high. And some are slow. Not one of them is like another. Don't ask us why. Go ask your mother.

Sean Covey

#85. A fast tongue is a sign of a slow brain

Abu Fennek