#slow

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#back #down #felt #getting #give

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice. ↗

— Enrico Caruso

#constantly #forced #i #i remember #impressed

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. ↗

— Ronnie Corbett

#anyone #ever #faster #going #idiot

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#competing #contact #cultural #elsewhere #faster

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government. ↗

— Charles Edison

#emulate #federal #federal government #flow #goal

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. ↗

— William Empson

#effort #failure #fills #kills #nor

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#civil war #day #five #good #good day

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down. ↗

— Leon Foucault

#calmly #develops #down #either #feels

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#experience #mistakes #slowly #teaches

The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#back #being #bust #careful #could