Slowly Quotes
1742 Slowly quotes by 1215 unique authors
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Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be…
— Eknath Easwaran
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As you open yourself to living at your edge, your deepest purpose will slowly begin to make itself known. In the meantime, you will experience…
— David Deida
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By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian life than prayer.…
— Richard J. Foster
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Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now…
— Ted Kooser
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My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.
— Frank Shorter
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I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience.…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to…
— Bernard Malamud
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This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: 'Keep yourself holy, and pure.' So deeply…
— Swami Vivekananda
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A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather…
— Gore Vidal
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By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every…
— Swami Vivekananda
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To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it…
— Swami Vivekananda
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No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
— Octavia Butler
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. . . the enemy of righteousness also works in little steps, so small that they are hard to notice if you are thinking only…
— Henry B. Eyring
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He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It…
— Winston Churchill
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Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.
— Terry Waite
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I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the…
— Louis Sachar
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Moving slowly enables us to learn faster.
— Paulo Coelho
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"Oh, ancient god, whatever your name," whispered Ahmed. "Help this lost son of a good father, this evil boy who meant no harm but slept…
— Ray Bradbury
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The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever design a capital…
— Scott Turow
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody…
— Michael Caine
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Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery…
— Henri Nouwen
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By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in…
— Samuel Reshevsky
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