Slowly Quotes
1742 Slowly quotes by 1215 unique authors
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Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who…
— Gaston Rebuffat
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Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried and…
— Avicenna
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We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast;…
— Donald M. Nelson
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The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves…
— Thomas Gray
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With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs.…
— Calvin Coolidge
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THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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But then you become closed. Then you start dying as far as your intelligence is concerned because intelligence needs the open sky, the wind, the…
— Rajneesh
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The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.
— Thomas Dolby
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There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly,…
— Blaise Pascal
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When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an…
— Madame de Stael
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The weapons laboratory of Los Alamos stands as a reminder that our very power as pattern finders can work against us, that it is possible…
— George Johnson
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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and…
— Frederick Winslow Taylor
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For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.
— Natalie Babbitt
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William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending…
— Eliot Weinberger
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Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long…
— James Salter
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If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain…
— Michael Merzenich
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Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it…
— Michael Merzenich
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Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of…
— Silas House
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But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself, returning to itself,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together;…
— Terry Waite
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I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had…
— Charles Van Doren
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Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar…
— Richard Bach
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