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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.

I'm slow by everybody's standards. But not by mine.

Quotes by Katherine Dunn

Conflating thought experiments with reality could slow the deployment of AVs that are reliably safer than human drivers.

Quotes by Karl Iagnemma

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.

Quotes by Jurgen Habermas

We wanted to slow down. But one would let us.

Quotes by June Carter Cash

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.

Quotes by Julie Christie

If you skate too slow, it's not feeling comfortable at all.

Quotes by Julia Lipnitskaya

I can't stand stupid, and I can't stand slow.

Quotes by Judy Sheindlin

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Quotes by Josiah Gilbert Holland

Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record.

Quotes by Josh Silver

I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.

Quotes by Jose Gonzalez

Sometimes you can just record anything and slow it down hugely and you'll find all these hidden notes and frequencies that match up really nicely.

Quotes by Jon Hopkins

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Quotes by John Wayne

My mistakes are always around moving too slow or moving too fast without process behind it. And it's something that, if we're not careful, we'll repeat again and again.

Quotes by John T. Chambers

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

Quotes by John Masefield

I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.

Quotes by John McCain

But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just...

Quotes by John Hutton

When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and...

Quotes by John F. Kerry

Let's be clear: raising taxes during a very slow recovery is likely to lead to another recession, and it will do absolutely nothing to balance the budget.

Quotes by John Fleming

We have found that the Ministry of Defence was slow in responding to the threat of improvised explosive devices and that delays in providing adequate medium-weight protected patrol vehicles should not have been tolerated.

Quotes by John Chilcot

I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.

Quotes by John Cho

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.