Moving Slowly Quotes

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Don't fear moving slowly forward...fear standing still.

Katherine Harris

Running, Moving, Standing Still

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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Moving slowly enables us to learn faster.

Paulo Coelho

Moving, Advice, Faster

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It's amazing what you can accomplish if you simply refuse to quit.

Porter Stansberry

Accomplishment, Presidential, Achievement

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You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control over your will. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success.

Napoleon Hill

Moving, Positive Thinking, Persistence

Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.143, Penguin

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Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Moving, Matter, Spirit

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But they love each other," Clary said, appalled. "Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?" Luke looked toward the river, at the dark water moving slowly under the light of the autumn moon. "Sometimes, Clary," he said, "love just isn't enough.

Cassandra Clare

Moving, Mean, Dark

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Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

Katharine Sergeant Angell White

Leadership, Baseball, Baby

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Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of cows, moving slowly in the direction they are being driven towards. If we make one point, we have a good chance that the audience will take the right direction; if we make several points, then the cows will scatter all over the field. The audience will lose interest and everyone will go back to the thoughts they interrupted in order to come to our lecture.

Gian-Carlo Rota

Moving, Science, Order

Gian-Carlo Rota (2008). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.196, Springer Science & Business Media

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But sometimes, maybe most times, it isn't that clear. It is dark and you are near the edge of a cliff, but you're moving slowly, not sure which direction you're heading in. Your steps are tentative but they are still blind in the night. You don't realize how close you are to the edge, how the soft earth could give away, how you could just slip a bit and suddenly plunge into the dark.

Harlan Coben

Moving, Dark, Night

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My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.

Diane Setterfield

Mother, Father, Moving

Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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States are great engines moving slowly.

Francis Bacon

Moving, Government, States

"Advancement of Learning" (Book II), as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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