Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
. . . I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything.
If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.
The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.
Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.
To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.
Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.
How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!
You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth.
The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.
In one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion.
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
All of us task-oriented obsessive compulsives must learn to slow down and let people into our lives.