Tortoise And The Hare Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Oh, gross! Zombie goo. (Caleb)
Ooo, I wonder if it tastes like chicken? What do you think? (Simi)
I think I'm never eating guacamole again as long as I live. (Caleb)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. 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

#4. One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare ...

Clement Greenberg

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Good habits are the basic tools that will determine whether you are a tortoise
or hare in life!

Lucas Remmerswaal

#8. 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

#9. I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer.

Kelly Corrigan

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. All right, all right! Don't lose your panties. No, wait. You don't have any, do you?

Kim Harrison

#14. We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.

Charlie Munger

#15. Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

Robert Lloyd

#16. The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find.

Emily Rodda

#18. I really like action-dramas like 'The Professional' or 'La Femme Nikita.' I'd really like to be in a movie like that.

Cassie Steele

#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. If we are living according to what we believe, we may be falsely accused.

Billy Graham

#22. 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