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Slow Quotes

What takes time, and why that's not a flaw.

These quotes treat slowness in different lights - a candid personal admission of being slow at everything, and an observation about how gradually industry adapts to new consumer demand. See Change quotes for more on how transitions unfold.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

Quotes by Afrika Bambaataa

Slow but steady wins the race.

Quotes by Aesop

I find writing a book a slow, intricate process, a kind of obstacle course punctuated with great rewards. But research is always thrilling, and I tend to incorporate newfound material up to the very last minute.

Quotes by Adrienne Mayor

The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.

Quotes by Adrian Tomine

Always Quotes

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

Abraham Lincoln

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Abraham Lincoln

I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was...

Quotes by Aaron Levie

Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.

Quotes by Yuri Andropov

I like to sing R&B slow jams. It's always been my thing.

Quotes by William Singe

Change Quotes

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

Quotes by William Kingdon Clifford

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

Quotes by William Landay

Saving was slow and painful.

Quotes by William Christopher Handy

I'm slow at everything I do.

Quotes by Warren Beatty

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...

Quotes by Walter Gropius

Down Quotes

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

Voltaire

The character of Chandigarh appears to be slow, but people here are quite competitive.

Quotes by Varun Sharma

Computers are extremely helpful and amazing for a multitude of scientific areas, but for me, when it comes to creation, they are insufficient and slow. Therefore, all of my efforts are to stay away from that beast.

Quotes by Vangelis

Slow down and stay alive.

Quotes by Ueli Steck

I've been building slow, step by step.

Quotes by Ty Dolla Sign

Great Quotes

As with instant replay, NFL Films' use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough.

Quotes by Tony Verna

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this collection of "slow" quotes cover?
It ranges from a personal admission of being slow at everything, to a harsh historical put-down of a social class, industry's slow adaptation, and a reflection on perfection taking time.
Is there a quote about being slow at everything?
Yes: "I'm slow at everything I do."
Does this collection include any harsh historical commentary?
Yes, restrained: one quote is a harshly critical, historical-style description of a social class - "The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire" - calling it "mentally slow" among other put-downs. That's presented as the historical text's own opinion, not a characterization endorsed by this page.
Is there a quote about industry adapting slowly?
Yes: "Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods."
Is there a quote linking slowness to perfection?
Yes: "Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time."

A closing line reframes slowness as the very mechanism of perfection, achieved only in degrees over time. Explore Great quotes or Down quotes for related themes.