Slow Quotes

• The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • World
  • Culture
  • German

• I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Moment
  • Slow

• There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Hate
  • Changes
  • Choose

• When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Ocean

• Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Want
  • Process
  • Option

• I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Through
  • Slow

• In hip-hop, sometimes that pace is so fast that you miss things. I don't mean literally miss lyrics; I just think there's an emotion in what these cats are saying that gets by you. When you slow things down, there's this emotion, this yearning.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Lyrics
  • Saying
  • Cats

• I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Technology

• Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Better

• There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Always
  • Slow
  • Partying

• If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • City
  • Speed
  • Slow

• Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Slow
  • Altogether

• Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

  

  Plato
  • Progress
  • Slow
  • Discourage

• I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

  

  Sebastian Coe
  • Long
  • Distance
  • Runners

• Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, And you will be filled with joy. A fool is happy Until his mischief turns against him. And a good man may suffer Until his goodness flowers. Do not make light of your failings, Saying, 'What are they to me?' A jug fills drop by drop.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Sorrow

• If you get into the habit of being quick it is just as easy as being slow.

  

  Anna Sewell
  • Habit
  • Slow

• Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Light
  • Slow
  • Wheels

• It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.

  

  Stirling Moss
  • Dead
  • Slow
  • Corner

• Everybody was slow today. We were waiting almost on every shot, especially on the last hole. And on the last putt, you want to take a little bit more time, make sure you give it your best effort on the last hole. So I'm sure we were a little slower today, but generally I'm not a slow player.

  

  Cristie Kerr
  • Effort
  • Everybody
  • Last

• Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

  

  Cedric Price
  • Problem
  • Architecture
  • Solver

• One of the best things I've ever been told is that it's better for someone to tell you to slow down than to speed up.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Speed
  • Slow
  • Best Things

• YES. I'm slow. This rules.

  

  Crosby Loggins
  • Rules
  • Slow

• Justice, even if slow, is sure.

  

  Solon
  • Justice
  • Slow

• I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Speaking
  • Slow

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