Dallas Willard Quotes

You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.

Stop running around, stop trying to return every email in your inbox immediately, stop cramming too much stuff into too few hours in the day. Sit down, shut up, and most importantly, be glad.

The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.

Be quick without hurrying.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Meditation creates more time than it takes.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.

One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, "When you're in a hurry, go slower." That works every time, unless you're trying to catch a plane.

Running all my different companies has turned out to be a lot easier because I mediate twice a day and go to yoga every day.

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.

Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.