Slow Start Quotes

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I walk. I want to learn about things before I jump into them.

Teams in the past have been slow starters yet gone on to win the World Cup.

My career started slowly and then tapered off.

I think most people start rock bands in their early twenties or teens, but I was almost thirty at the time when the band started really doing anything and it took another several years before people started caring about us.

I kind of dwindled into acting.

His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.

When it started, 'Bake Off' wasn't a big hit. Respect to the people who said, 'We'll keep commissioning this and give it a chance.'

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

I can get ready in five minutes, but getting out of bed takes forever.

I cannot tell you on a day to day basis that there's a return on investment. I can tell you if you stick with it, absolutely in a few months things will start to change. It starts to change slowly. Things start to get a little easier. As the momentum builds it becomes bigger and bigger.

Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.

I'm a slow starter.

The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished.

Yes, I am just a type who likes to watch the cat out of the tree. I want to start quietly, and then always build, always go higher.

I don't start my show at 200%. I like to go in slow, warm up the crowd, and bring them along with me. To hear everyone singing along is so great.

'Downton' took a long time to catch fire in America, but we have been getting good reviews for 'Tango.'

I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.' 'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

I was something of a late bloomer.

Because we spent so much time in the States in the beginning, we weren't able to do so much in England. It was slower catching up. And we didn't have radio here like what was called underground radio over there. So we got these little slots on the BBC.