During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.
Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
Literally, these [heels] slow you down.
I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)
There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression.
The machinery of filmmaking is really slow and ponderous and I don't know how you're going to make it any faster with any of the systems, whether it's Red, Sony, or whatever.
It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.
Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.
The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.
I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth.
But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a phantom life, taunting her from just out of reach. A sense would come over her while she was drawing or walking, and once while she was dancing slow and close with Kaz, that she was supposed to be doing something else with her hands, with her legs, with her body. Something else. Something else. Something else.
My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.
I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.
Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U. S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.
Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating.
All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.
I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.