Slowing Quotes - Page 5

Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record.

Murray Walker

Funny, Motor Racing, Lap

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If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.

Aviva Chomsky

Real, Goal, Migration

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I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology.

Neil Postman

Technology, Thinking, Growth

"Neil Postman Ponders High Tech". Online Newshour: Online Forum, www.faculty.rsu.edu. January 17, 1996.

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We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady - instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm.

Christopher McDougall

Running, Shoes, Pace

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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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Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding.

Helen Clark

Country, Loss, Parks

"Helen Clark: UNDP's Pragmatic Visionary". Interview with Michael Tobias, www.forbes.com. March 29, 2012.

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As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

Marvin Hamlisch

Taken, People, Desire

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The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.

Steven Lopez

Spiritual, Long, Done

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Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

Jim Cooper

Oxygen, Blood, Law

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Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.

Marisha Pessl

Past, Light, Color

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At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

Summer Sanders

Hurt, May, Marathon

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It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.

Todd Phillips

Cutting, Watches, Way

Source: collider.com

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When you're hungry for success, don't let anyone feed you crap about slowing down.

Marie Forleo

Hungry For Success, Slow Down, Crap

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The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product both directly and indirectly.

Fernando J. Corbato

Growth, Doe, Four

"On Building Systems That Will Fail". Fernando J. Corbato, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 34, Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.

Stanislaw Lem

Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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In truth I suspect that merely slowing down is not a very satisfying answer. What I need has less to do with my pace of life than my peace of life. At any speed, I crave a deep and lasting inner peace. And if it's solace I'm after, I don't need to pace myself like a turtle, change jobs or set up house on a quiet island. It is usually frenetic living, not high energy, that robs my peace of mind.

Steve Goodier

Jobs, Islands, Turtles

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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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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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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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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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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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Slowing it all down and analyzing our mental approach is a surprisingly effective way of becoming a better player.

Jim Abbott

Player, Down And, Analyzing

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Slowing down reminds you that the journey is supposed to be fun.

Anne Bancroft

Fun, Journey, Slow Down

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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 current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

W. G. Sebald

Fields, Oblivion, Slow Down

W.G. Sebald (2014). “Austerlitz”, p.276, Vintage Canada

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