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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.

Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.

Quotes by Bruce Sterling

You never know about team speed until you get out there. You don't know who is a slow learner. A kid may not be very bright or he may be real bright but he doesn't know football. You've got to...

Quotes by Bruce Arians

It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how...

Quotes by Brian Setzer

Since I've started working on my autobiography, I'm going to slow down work. I've decided to reduce my workload by not signing every film that comes my way.

Quotes by Brahmanandam

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Quotes by Bowie Kuhn

If what you want is actual change, then what has to be built is a mass movement that is militant and can use direct action to slow or stop profit. A movement that can do that can demand whatever it...

Quotes by Boots Riley

Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

Quotes by Bobby Jindal

The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.

Quotes by Bob Simon

See, I'm a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I'm totally into slow jams and old-school R&B, all that.

Quotes by Blake Anderson

Slow motion goes one of two ways. It either makes it look really, really cool, or it makes it look really, really bad.

Quotes by Blake Griffin

I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not.

Quotes by Billy Graham

If the movie had ended in Hollywood fashion, the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 would have marked the culmination of the global fight to slow a changing climate.

Quotes by Bill McKibben

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

Quotes by Bill Gross

Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can...

Quotes by Bill James

The thing is: I was quite slow when I was younger. I might have been smart - I don't know - but I was slow talking to people. And as you can see, I don't talk very loud.

Quotes by Benjamin Clementine

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Quotes by Benjamin N. Cardozo

I'm a slow reader.

Quotes by Benicio Del Toro

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'

Quotes by Ben Fountain

Certainly, 9 percent unemployment and very slow growth is not a good situation.

Quotes by Ben Bernanke

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.