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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.

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of...

Quotes by Toni Braxton

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

Quotes by Tokugawa Ieyasu

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

Quotes by Thomas Tusser

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

Quotes by Thomas a Kempis

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

Quotes by Ted Danson

After my debut in 2005, I had done almost 15 films till 2008, with 'Saas Bahu and Sensex' being the last. Hence, I thought it was time to slow down.

Quotes by Tanushree Dutta

I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.

Quotes by Tamsin Greig

We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.

Quotes by Tamara Ecclestone

Changing behaviour is a very slow process.

Quotes by Taavet Hinrikus

Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that...

Quotes by Sylvia Earle

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

Quotes by Syd Barrett

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

Quotes by Sunny Murray

I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.

Quotes by Sugar Ray Leonard

Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process...

Quotes by Stone Gossard

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.

Quotes by Stijn Streuvels

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

Quotes by Steven Moffat

From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to...

Quotes by Steven Rattner

Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.

Quotes by Steve Prefontaine

The general reactions were that the video was either not going to load, or be painfully slow to load, or would require a plug-in users didn't have. YouTube changed that, because it just works.

Quotes by Steve Krug

You slow down when you get older.

Quotes by Stephen Stills

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.