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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.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

I was so excited to do 'Slow' with Matoma. The song is lyrically so beautiful, and the production brings it all to life.

Quotes by Noah Cyrus

Things happen fast. That's this league. You can't slow down, because it's going.

Quotes by Nick Foles

I've had to work on being a slow talker.

Quotes by Nicholas Brendon

Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see...

Quotes by Natasha Henstridge

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

Quotes by Natalie Jeremijenko

Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the...

Quotes by Nassau William Senior

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

Quotes by Nastassja Kinski

There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.

Quotes by Nancy Gibbs

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Mother Teresa

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Quotes by Moliere

Teams in the past have been slow starters yet gone on to win the World Cup.

Quotes by Miroslav Klose

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Quotes by Minor White

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

Quotes by Mike White

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

Quotes by Mike Mansfield

You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.

Quotes by Mike Figgis

Baseball is a game that shouts, 'Slow Down' to America. Stop tweeting, texting, blogging, watching cable news, and obsessing about polls, lost planes, and focus-group-driven politicians.

Quotes by Mike Barnicle

The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises.

Quotes by Michael J. Saylor

However one reaches the parks, the main thing is to slow down and absorb the natural wonders at leisure.

Quotes by Michael Frome

Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.

Quotes by Michael Gove

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.