Slow Quotes

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.

You get old, you slow down.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.

Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

My brother is really, really slow.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.

What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all.

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

The team has come along slow but fast.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.

It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.