"Out of the Slow Food movement has grown……" — Carl Honore
"Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another."
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Carl Honore
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21 Quotes by Carl Honore
Carl Honore has 21 quotes on this site.
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Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a…
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By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love…
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In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background…
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My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a…
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk;…
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to…
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In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling…
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Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering,…
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Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm,…
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In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the…
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Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means…
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