Acceleration Quote by Pico Iyer Download Open image “In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.” — Pico Iyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acceleration Age Exhilarating Inspirational
In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. And in an age of distraction, nothing is so luxurious as… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the… — Patrice Leconte Copy Share Image
'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Speed is relative. You have to live it. You can't just jump into it. You have to live it all the time. — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
“Do you know why you walk slowly when you’re old?” “No.” “Because with age you receive the gift of friction. The less time you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Like any traveler, I'm always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“When you're hurrying around too quickly," he had said, "there's a part of the world you can't see. If, for example, you're taking a… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment. — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
Car love is the sound of a throaty V-8 rumbling and revving, the acceleration throwing you back in the seat - especially when you… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
If you look at the whole package, with everything Henry has, I don't think you can find that anywhere else. You give him the… — Dennis Bergkamp Copy Share Image
Things are both getting better and getting worse. The madness is accelerating but an acceleration of the new consciousness is also coming in. However,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
Generating ideas is not a problem. Incubation is. Acceleration is. — Rita Gunther McGrath Copy Share Image