Slow Movement Quotes

I'm 250 pounds, I'm not really fast.

Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete.

The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.

Sid [the character from 'Ice Age'] is a prehistoric sloth. Sloths move really slowly and they store food in the cheek pouches. That's where I got the voice that you hear. He had to sound as though he was storing food.

Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed carbon cycle, Earth's temperatures would cool dozens of degrees below your comfort zone.

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

Slowly would be better than not at all.

Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.

Literally, these [heels] slow you down.

If I'm climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, 'Hmm, this is weird.' Like a fish without water.

If a problem looks difficult, relax. If it looks impossible, relax even more. Then begin encouraging small changes, putting just enough pressure on yourself to move one turtle step forward. Then rest, savor, celebrate. Then step again. You’ll find that slow is fast, gentle is powerful, and stillness moves mountains.

Constitutional reform is exasperatingly slow.

There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

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

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 learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.

You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band.