Deliberate Pace Quotes

I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a second or third draft I wrote insert pages on a typewriter. But I got rid of all my typewriters about three or four novels ago and now I do everything by hand. I write by hand because it makes me go slow and going slow is what I like.

The founders designed a government in which it was easier to do nothing than it was to do a great deal all at once.

My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.

Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run.

AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.

Festina Lente (Hurry in slowly)

I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.

The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes his time to finish all his sentences.

He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.

I write slowly.

I work very slowly.

To go fast, row slowly.

I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.

Doing less films is sometimes intentional, but sometimes things just don't work out.

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.

I made nothing happen very slowly.

All real progress must be slow.