Slow Down Quotes - Page 18

• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

  Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

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• If people want me to go round and talk to governments and others then I feel that responsibility which is why I am on the road a good deal of the time and why I'm not slowing down.

  Michael Marmot

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability and to prevent, or at least slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work - on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself - it must be organized for constant change.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Organization, Community

  "Post-Capitalist Society". Book by Peter Drucker, www.wired.com. 1993.

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• We need to work less to achieve more. We need to stop fighting food and start embracing it. We need to stop punishing our bodies and start providing for them. We need to slow down and enjoy and then we’ll get the results we’ve been looking for—and sooner than we expect.

  Marc David

  Fighting, Needs, Body

  Marc David (2015). “The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss”, p.17, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Going out to others in order to reach the fringes of humanity does not mean rushing out aimlessly into the world. Often it is better simply to slow down, to put aside our eagerness in order to see and listen to others, to stop rushing from one thing to another and to remain with someone who has faltered along the way.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Rushing, Order

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.17, BookBaby

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• I'd like to make time slow down.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Making Time

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• Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

  David Duchovny

  Yoga, Exercise, Breathing

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• Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

  John Wagner

  Ice Cream, Cake, Age

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• Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Laughter, Laughing

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.308, Penguin

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• Slow down, simplify and be kind.

  Naomi Judd

  Be Kind, Kind, Simplify

  Naomi Judd (2008). “Naomi's Guide to Aging Gratefully: Facts, Myths, and Good News for Boomers”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Meditation, Mindfulness, Attention

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Aug 06, 2014

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• Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Happiness, Patience, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Blessed

  Twitter post from May 10, 2013

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• If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Change, Death, Character

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• The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

  John P. Kotter

  Change, Competition, Next

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• If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.

  Walter Isaacson

  Practice, Discipline, Intuition

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• I have an unquenchable desire to slow down and find my life going deeper in my walk with Christ. I want to meet him in the depths of my soul, away from the stress and press of everything on top. A relationship with Christ is the key to fulfilling our deepest longings. All of life is about filling the void that sin and separation from him have created within. Filling the emptiness with piles of things, earthly friendships, satisfying experiences, and sensual encounters ultimately proves to achieve less than what we had hoped for. Christ is the only one who fits.

  Joseph Stowell

  Stress, Keys, Soul

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• You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Curves, Driving Down The Road, Speed

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• Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment.

  Michael Ray

  New Relationship, Simple, Tasks

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• Rest is a decision we make. Rest is choosing to do nothing when we have too much to do, slowing down when we feel pressure to go faster, stopping instead of starting. Rest is listening to our weariness and responding to our tiredness, not to what is making us tired. Rest is what happens when we say one simple word: “No!

  Mike Yaconelli

  Tired, Simple, Decisions We Make

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• Just because the road ahead is long, is no reason to slow down. Just because there is much work to be done, is no reason to get discouraged. It is a reason to get started, to grow, to find new ways, to reach within yourself and discover strength, commitment, and determination. The road ahead is long and difficult, but it’s filled with opportunity. Start what needs starting. Finish what needs finishing. Get on the road. Stay on the road. Don’t give up.

  Ralph Marston

  Determination, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• Too many people try to do the new job, new spouse, new house, new car thing in 18 months. That's a good way to end up broke. We've got to resist the temptation to catch up with our parents in 18 months. Slow down. You have the rest of your life to play catch up. After all, it's just stuff.

  Dave Ramsey

  Jobs, Play, People

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• My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

  Beverly Cleary

  Reading, Book, Writing

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• Most people don't pray until they're in trouble.
  When people need help they pray a lot.
  But after they get what they want, they slow down.
  If a man takes five showers a day, his body will be clean.
  Praying five times a day helps me clean my mind.

  Muhammad Ali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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