Slow Quotes

2145 Slow quotes by 1557 unique authors

To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two… — Louise Thaden
But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type… — David Foster Wallace
Knowledge is a plant of slow growth. — Thomas Cooper
When I finish writing a rap verse. It's a lot like sex: You start off slow with ideas, like foreplay, and then you put your… — Drake
We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it... In short, we need a… — Sandra Postel
The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow inner revolution, a… — Robert Thurman
To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to… — Peter Senge
I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts… — Dawna Markova
When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the… — Elizabeth Lesser
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. Aim high and be… — Scott Weiss
Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg": unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you. — Cynthia Lewis
America is full of businesses bearing old Christian names, but which are really owned and run by Jews. Most of them have been acquired in… — Samuel Roth
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? — Jeff Goodell
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… — Charles Dickens
Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's a dream of mine. I worked very, very hard for many years. But the reality is, it's slow coming ... I think we're still… — Unknown Author
It started kind of slow, but we got back into it, bad as you might not want to. You've got to get some type of… — Jonas Jennings
We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to… — M. Scott Peck
Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies… — Phineas Fletcher
See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one,… — Ezra Pound
There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day… — Ellen Barkin
Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast. — Emil Zatopek
Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form… — Henry Walter Bates

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