#slow

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#best #faculties #force #great #men

Act quickly, think slowly. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#quickly #slowly #think

You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering. ↗

— John Dykstra

#build #camera #constantly #devices #down

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#bad #bias #easier #evil #gain

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#being #chair #current #does #everything

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#achieved #climb #everybody #however #lasting

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades. ↗

— Levon Helm

#grades #high #high school #i #me

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#hypothesis #matter #may #probably #process

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#back #back up #body #burlesque #come

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily. ↗

— Celeste Holm

#die #encouragement #live #sadly #slowly