Carl Honore Quotes

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

Forget goals. Value the process.

When you treat yourself right, you run better and more efficiently. Which means you don't have to go 100 miles an hour to get everything done.

My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.

I admit I'm choosy. That's because I like to concentrate on what I'm doing.

It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

We say no to a lot of things so we can invest an incredible amount of care on what we do.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.

Concentrate: you can't have it all.

Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.

It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.

It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.

I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

Okay, so let's run faster.

If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things