Diplomacy is tough, slogging, slow work—and hard work.
Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.
Yes, I would say I had quite a rough time from 1992 to 1996. After the highs of the Eighties, work became slow from around 1987 to around 1997. I was running a small recording studio in Shepherd's Bush but wasn't making a great deal from it.
The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done 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.
When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
The fact that - I mean, these are things to be talked about. You can't do anything without educating the public, right? And that's a slow work.
There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.
The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.
I work very slowly.
I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.
The practice of patience in crafting and process is a virtue that needs to come back.
I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.
There was, like, a point where music was slow for me, like '09. I wasn't getting that much work.
I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
