“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable. — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow. — Arturo Toscanini Copy Share Image
One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going… — Alain Prost Copy Share Image
Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
As actors, we need a moment to take a breath and have a moment of slowness. — Emily Kinney Copy Share Image
In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“We are surrounded by miracles too common to notice. Think of the intricate patterns on a butterfly’s wing... or the way a… — Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World Copy Share Image
