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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.

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

Quotes by Giorgio Moroder

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

George Orwell

The first thing that was intimidating was when I started rehearsing to play Riff in the London company. That first day of rehearsal, I thought, 'Oh my God, I'm never going to learn this. I'm too slow.'

Quotes by George Chakiris

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

Quotes by Georg Solti

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

Quotes by Georg Buchner

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

Quotes by Geoffrey Canada

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

Quotes by Gene Robinson

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

Quotes by Gavin DeGraw

When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.

Quotes by Gail Collins

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...

Quotes by Gail Collins

Life is short and progress is slow.

Quotes by Gabriel Lippmann

How quick are we to learn: that is, to imitate what others have done or thought before. And how slow to understand: that is, to see the deeper connections.

Quotes by Frits Zernike

I'm going to Yoshi's. I'm taking a few gigs. I'm playing. I'm not going to play all the time. I'm going to take it easy and take it slow and warm up so I can come back.

Quotes by Freddie Hubbard

Because running fast is more fun than running slow.

Quotes by Frank Shorter

I'm just a slow writer. I'm picky and careful and fastidious.

Quotes by Frank Peretti

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

Quotes by Frank Gehry

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quotes by Francis Quarles

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

Quotes by Frances Perkins

I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.

Quotes by Flume

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

Quotes by Felix Dennis

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.