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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.

The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.

Quotes by Edmund Phelps

I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up. I'm dyslexic and a slow reader, but I could get through the thick ones in days!

Quotes by Douglas Booth

Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break...

Quotes by Dorothy Allison

One of my favorite movies that I've ever seen is '25th Hour.' I love it so much because it's simply about a guy who's going to jail for six years, and this slow, terrible day he has.

Quotes by Dito Montiel

The U.S.-Mexico border has often been described as an open wound. NAFTA was expected to heal it, albeit through a long, slow, and imperfect scarring process, by creating a basic framework for cooperation between the two countries.

Quotes by Denise Dresser

My kids don't slow down, but they like to hang just with us, with mum and dad. They play with us and we play, too.

Quotes by Deborra-Lee Furness

It's almost like Time's Up allowed some really good old-school players to stand up and say, 'We're actually just really normal companies that want to facilitate culture-making. Some of us are even in it for the slow returns.'

Quotes by Debra Granik

Even if the pace is slow in championships, you can still sprint well and still power in the last 200, which is always the main part when the race is slow.

Quotes by David Rudisha

I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up...

Quotes by David Oyelowo

I'm too fast, too sexy, and too talented to be blown away by a large, slow robot from the Ukraine.

Quotes by David Haye

Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.

Quotes by David Edwards

You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's...

Quotes by David Edwards

For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which they act. There doesn't seem to be a lot of discipline and organization to what they do.

Quotes by Dave Heineman

I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show.

Quotes by Dave Attell

I was a slow and lazy reader as a kid. 'The Prince and the Pauper' was the only non-school book I would read, over and over, between television, records and radio, until I picked up my aunt's copy of 'In...

Quotes by Darryl Pinckney

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

Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

You know what's been interesting about my career? It's been this slow rise with long plateaus.

Quotes by Dan Fogler

Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

Quotes by Dallas Roberts

I'm a slow starter.

Quotes by Damian Lewis

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

Quotes by Dakota Blue Richards

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.