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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.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

I don't care if it's the slow way; I just want to do it the right way.

Quotes by Ravyn Lenae

If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.

Quotes by Raghuram Rajan

If you analyze my career graph, you will see that I'm slow at choosing projects.

Quotes by Radhika Pandit

I love slow cooker recipes - especially during the fall.

Quotes by Rachel Hollis

I sang everything - R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton - and I really didn't care which I got signed for.

Quotes by Prince Royce

There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.

Quotes by Peter Gabriel

In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing on the cake, the agony, the slow twisting, thinning and snapping of his skeleton. Everything...

Quotes by Peter Baynham

Businesses which were slow to recognize the power of the Internet in the mid '90s were quickly left behind. For example, Blockbuster failed to innovate with streaming technology and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010.

Quotes by Perianne Boring

No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.

Quotes by Paul Sparks

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

Quotes by Paul Scheer

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

Quotes by Paul Ryan

We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.

Quotes by Paul Nitze

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

Quotes by Paul Berg

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Quotes by Ovid

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Quotes by Ovid

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

Quotes by Ovid

The early entrants into the world of A.R., as with its cousin virtual reality, were disappointing: the phones were too weak, the networks were too slow, and the applications were too nerdy. But now the technological pieces are in place,...

Quotes by Om Malik

In the simplest terms, a fast-growing company can't keep growing at the same fast rate forever. It eventually has to slow down.

Quotes by Om Malik

Before we had the Internet, we would either call or write to our friends, one at a time, and keep up with their lives. It was a slow process and took a lot of effort and time to learn about...

Quotes by Om Malik

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.