Slowing Down Quotes

“The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to a state of rapture. For years, I had assumed that throwing beautiful words at the page would make my prose feel true. But I had the process exactly backward. It was truth that lifted the language into beauty and toward song. It was a matter of doing what Joe Henry did, of pursuing characters into moments of emotional truth and slowing down. The result was a compression of sensual and psychological detail that released the rhythm and melody in language itself, what Longfellow called "the happy accidents of language.”

“You have to be intentional about slowing down and not rushing to your next meeting.”

“There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.”

“At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.”

“Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.”

“We have never succeeded in slowing down our nuclear fusion reactors.”

“As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.”

“Taking lunch by myself every once in a while and slowing down - that helps me a lot.”

“If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.”

“I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.”

“I don't have any plans of slowing down. I love being an actor.”

“Every interview I've done since I've turned 40, the journalist will say, 'So, isn't it amazing? Your career should be over, but you're still working. Why do you think you have found a career at a time when a lot of women are slowing down?'”

“Where you really get in trouble is if the market is dropping and the economy's slowing down and you don't take action.”

“Venice is unlike any other city simply because you travel primarily by boat. Time warps, and I love the feeling of it slowing down.”

“MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours, killing them with the frantic way we live that it's important we take at least this one collective sigh and stop, take stock, and acknowledge our place in time before diving back into the melee. Midnight on New Year's Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present. Whether we're aware of it or not, as we countdown together to it, we're sharing the burden of our history and committing to the promise of tomorrow.”

“Historically, I'm not a great patient when it comes to slowing down.”

“Patience requires a slowing down, a spaciousness, a sense of ease.”

“I've never been very good at slowing down.”

“I'm a big believer in keeping a certain balance between the whirlwind that life can feel like sometimes, and slowing down and doing things that really make me feel alive.”

“But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.”