Slow Down Quotes - Page 4

• This very deep, soothing voice came on, saying: "You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do." I could feel it in every cell of my body, and I immediately realized, there's something here. I could feel my heart rate slow down. I could feel stress melting out of my body.

  Brad Willis

  Strong, Stress, Heart

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• I want to be happy and stable. My life is clearly going to slow down.

  Nicole Richie

  Want, Life Is, Stable

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• You get old, you slow down.

  Ben Affleck

  Old You

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• A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

  John Ortberg

  Car, Wrecks, Happened

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• When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

  Bill Haley

  Rock And Roll, Band, Clock

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• If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in status and income, American medical innovation will dramatically slow down and pharmaceutical discoveries will decline in number and quality. And, of course, the economy of the United States will deteriorate, perhaps permanently.

  Dennis Prager

  Discovery, Average, Law

  "A Society that Venerates Lawyers More than Doctors". jewishworldreview.com. November 3, 2009.

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• Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don't hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.

  Timothy Egan

  Art, Jobs, Moving

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• I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!

  Veronica Webb

  Running, Hurt, Down And

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• Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Talking, Quality, Gains

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• The TV is often on in our house, but I really only keep up with three shows: 'American Idol,' 'Modern Family' and 'The Walking Dead.' Sometimes I'll sip red wine - it's a nice way to slow down and relax.

  Carrie Underwood

  Nice, Wine, Idols

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• If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

  Guy Finley

  Real, Thinking, Differences

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• Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.

  Masayoshi Son

  Country, Organization, Culture

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• Slow down, totally. You have to slow down and pay attention to everything.

  Norman Reedus

  Attention, Down And, Pay

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think if you asked people "what's the biggest problem in your life?" They'd say, "I just don't have time for anything!" And at our fingertips, if it isn't e-mail, it's our Blackberry, and it's our iPods and telephones - we never stop. We never take those moments to stop the stimulus to find out "what's going on in there? What's really happening?" And then things start to build up. And then we are almost afraid to slow down.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Thinking, Ipods, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• People always slow down for a train wreck. It's like junk food. If you don't feel good about yourself, you want to read crap about other people, like gossip in high school. You don't understand why it's there, but somehow it makes a lot of people feel better.

  Angelina Jolie

  School, Feel Better, Train Wrecks

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• Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.

  Jim Fixx

  Pain, Way

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• The way to a beautiful, strong, healthy body is to start by trusting yourself right now. Let go of the struggle and surrender to your body's needs. Your intuition will tell you what to eat. It may direct you to exercise vigorously, in which case you'll enjoy it, or it may tell you to slow down and rest. It may tell you to stay in bed all day, or it may tell you to get up early. There are no rigid rules. Your body knows perfectly well what's good for it.

  Shakti Gawain

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Strong

  Shakti Gawain (1993). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation”, Nataraj Publishing

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• ...slow down and self-edit and ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything: "Does this need to be said?" "Does this need to be said by me?" "Does this need to be said by me now?"

  Craig Ferguson

  Self, Say Anything, Doe

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• We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.

  Chester Brown

  Behaviour, Stranger, Economic

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• I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

  Alan Lightman

  Believe, Reflection, Thinking

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• My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

  Carl Honore

  Children, Race, Hands

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• In such a fast-paced world, gathering people around a table to share a meal allows everything to slow down. I would ask people to sit at least once a week around a table and just enjoy each other's company. Give them the time to talk, laugh, and fill their bellies. It seems like a small thing, but it can bring so much joy to so many people.

  Zac Posen

  People, Giving, Laughing

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• We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.

  Thomas Merton

  Tempo, Humans

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• I'm sure my priorities will change. My mother was such a great mother and is still such a big part of my life. I want my kids to feel that way about me. I want to be in their lives. I
  don't want to be away a lot, so I'm sure I'll slow down. But there are so many amazing people who do both.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mother, Kids, People

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but in fact, Melinda and I are struck by how many people think the world is getting worse. The belief that the world can’t solve extreme poverty and disease isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful. That’s why in this year’s letter we take apart some of the myths that slow down the work. The next time you hear these myths, we hope you will do the same.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Self, Years

  "3 Myths That Block Progress For The Poor". Bill and Melinda Gates' 2014 Annual Letter, www.gatesfoundation.org. January 20, 2014.

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