Quote by Naomi Shihab Nye Download Open image “why are we so monumentally slow?” — Naomi Shihab Nye ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
We have to choose to slow down, to actually see the time and space that we are in. To truly see people and accept… — Jodi Hills Copy Share Image
In America, you keep on hearing productivity is low; secular stagnation, it's a new normal. It's just not true: We've had multiple wars; we're… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Because we have a limited time, we cannot go slowly! Ignore anyone who is advising you to go slow! The faster we are the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up, however much… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
“But I know we need to keep warm here on earth And when your shawl is as thin as mine is, you tell stories.” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair,… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“We walked where the ancient pier juts into the sea. Stood on the rim of the pool, by the circle of black boulders. No… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“rounded shoulders, the shoulders of women no one has touched for a long time. Men” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I can never see fashion models, lean angular cheeks, strutting hips and blooming hair, without thinking of the skulls at the catacombs in Lima,… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like?… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Remembering your mistakes more acutely than any minor success. This was the worst. The things that kept you up at night. Tip a waiter… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Grief is an ambush. You’re walking along feeling fine, look down, see a leaf, and begin to weep. —Jack” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image