Carl Honore Quotes

I kind of like working fast.

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.

'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.

I've always wanted to do things as fast as possible.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

I learned to value speed in everything I do.

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

Shake your business up and pour it. I haven't got all day.

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

Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

We're just moving along as quick as possible.

I like to work fast.

Short cuts make long delays.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me 'the Tasmanian Devil' when she was in her teens.

When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.

For most of my life, I've been in a hurry.

I try to do anything I can to quicken things up.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

Be quick without hurrying.

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

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

Better start rushing before the rush begins!

Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.