Slow Down Quotes - Page 6

• When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

  Ted Turner

  Ocean, Racing, Hours

  "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

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• Learn to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life... if we look closely we see they... bring us just the right information at just the right time.

  James Redfield

  Opportunity, Events, Looks

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• Mindfulness is about finding ways to slow down and pay attention to the present moment-which improves performance and reduces stress. It’s about having the time and space to attend to what’s right in front of us, even though many other forces are trying to keep us stuck in the past or inviting us to fantasize or worry about the future. It’s about a natural quality each of us possesses, and which we can further develop in just a few minutes a day.

  Tim Ryan

  Stress, Past, Space

  Tim Ryan (2012). “A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit”, p.17, Hay House, Inc

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• [Learn] to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life. We call them coincidences, but if we look closely we see they are meaningful. They bring us just the right information at just the right time to extend our careers, relationships, and growth. These events feel destined in some way, as though the world is set up to help us make a better life, work through our problems, and reach our dreams - if we just pay attention.

  James Redfield

  Meaningful, Dream, Opportunity

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• Someone once said that death is God's way of telling you to slow down. I do enjoy what I do, and the secret of my success is the willingness to grind work out.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Work Out, Secret, Way

  "Interview with Guy Kawasaki | Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Author (Enchantment)". Interview with Sameer Kamat, www.mbacrystalball.com. June 26, 2011.

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• What I love about my daughter is that she is going to definitely allow me and force me to change my life and slow down and make it more about the real things in the world.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Daughter, Real, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I believe that capitalism, at least how it's used by major corporations, and environmental concerns are in opposition. To be ecologically aware, productivity of many things would slow down at least for awhile. Stockholders don't want to hear about the saving of the whales or some stream in Kentucky. They want a return on their investment.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Kentucky, Whales

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

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• Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.

  Carl Honore

  Europe, Cities, Smell

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• I don't think that it's appropriate for the government to say, in effect, we're going to slow
  down the growth of housing or that we're going to slow down the extension of the highway and the freeway system.

  George Deukmejian

  Thinking, Government, Growth

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• I miss that moment when you're about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you're trying to figure out how exactly to get in the damn station you hear a collective sigh of 40 people behind you pissed that you're slowing down the herd.

  Dan Mangan

  People, Missing, Style

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts, looking for anything that slows down the narrative. It can be hard, cutting out parts I love, but I try to make the book as tight as possible so that the reader doesn't get bored.

  Chevy Stevens

  Book, Writing, Cutting

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• No matter what meditation technique you use, just let the mind slow down and begin to explore its internal surroundings.

  Tim McCarthy

  Meditation, Mind, Technique

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• The physical act of meditating by closing one's eyes and slowing down the speed of internal thoughts - especially worrisome thinking - results in a physiological response that is well documented in the scientific literature.

  Tim McCarthy

  Eye, Thinking, Literature

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• EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to slow down this process, which is being pushed forward without significant public participation.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Expansion, Constitution, Significant

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• When they were naming vitamins they must have thought there were going to be way more vitamins than there ended up being. OK let's name these: Vitamin A, Vitamin B... ok man slow down we've got a lot to cover here. B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B12. Then they got to E and they were like 'We're pretty much done. We've got all those damn B's. This is embarrassing. Let's just skip to K and get the hell out of here.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of entropy when all it's thermal and mechanical functions fail, thus rendering all human endeavors ultimately pointless. Just to put the gig in some sort of context.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it.

  Stephen King

  Winning, Thinking, People

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Running, Growing Up, Mean

  Interview with Larry Livermore, larrylivermore.com. August 14, 2009.

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• I was always, and I still am to a certain extent, one of those lazy people who spends a lot of time with Italian friends and yet constantly says I don't speak Italian. Things slow down when I start speaking Italian.

  Tilda Swinton

  Italian, Lazy People, Speak

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Being a musician, being a person who's playing tours and making records is a part-time thing for me at age. I did it, I lived it and I breathed it every day of my life for 30-odd years and now I am slowing down a little bit. But it does not mean that I am any less intense and dedicated to the work that I am doing now. I have other priorities in life as well.

  David Gilmour

  Mean, Priorities In Life, Years

  "Q&A: David Gilmour". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. February 21, 2006.

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• If improv gets reckless, you can feel it. A lot of shows try to do that, I find. When improv is done sloppily. It betrays the story. It can slow down the energy of the story you're telling.

  Steve Dildarian

  Trying, Energy, Stories

  "HitFix Interview: ‘The Life and Times of Tim’ creator Steve Dildarian". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. February 17, 2010.

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• The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Beloved Wife, Tea

  "South Africa's Tutu announces retirement". www.cnn.com. July 22, 2010.

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• We have the means right now to live long enough to live forever. Existing knowledge can be aggressively applied to dramatically slow down aging processes so we can still be in vital health when the more radical life-extending therapies from biotechnology and nanotechnology become available. But most baby boomers won't make it because they are unaware of the accelerating aging process in their bodies and the opportunity to intervene.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Baby, Mean, Opportunity

  "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology". Book by Ray Kurzweil, 2005.

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• Whenever I hit a ball in the gap, I'm thinking the extra bases. I never slow down. That's the only way you're going to get triples.

  Carl Crawford

  Thinking, Balls, Gaps

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• Even on home runs that I hit in the past, guys were like, 'Man, you need to slow down. You've got that one.

  Curtis Granderson

  Running, Home, Past

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