Slowness Quotations

You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are read in a matter of days, even hours. A writer may labor for weeks over a particular passage that will have its effect on a reader for an instant - and that effect may be subliminal or barely noticed.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them

Many people are criticizing the slowness of the process,

Seven weeks ago at our Dec. 7 earnings announcement, we projected a falloff in the current quarter of 10 percent based on slowness in the wireless market, PCs and peripherals, and a broad-based distribution inventory correction.

Basically we found tonight that our backup system wasn't nearly as fast as our primary system. That caused a slowness at the ticket window. I'm sorry for all of those who were affected, but I thank them all for making the decision to come to the game.

I was blown away by the amount of destruction. And the slowness that is still going on in rebuilding it.

We believe that the fundamentals of our business are still very healthy, and we did beat analysts estimates in terms of our earnings, and saw an opportunity to make a little more money with some slowness in Europe and the government sector. In the second half, we're still confident that the target and goal we have talked to the Street about, the 30 percent growth, is achievable, and believe that seasonally the second half is better, and will be this year as well,

People are very frustrated when they see the slowness of the response (to the hurricane). People figure they can give a gift very quickly. The slowness of the response is part of what triggered this outpouring of donations.

Size is often accompanied with a lack of focus and a slowness that results in losing touch with what the customers really need.

The biggest disappointment was our slowness in the first period. We did not play with continuity, while Providence played sound defensively.

Once (Trinity) hit a couple of shots, we had to extend out defensively. That opened things up for them. Their quickness suddenly became a factor and our slowness became a factor.

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

Any slowness in the inflow of foreign funds is only temporary.

The confidence of our nation was shaken by the slowness and inadequacy of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, ... a concerted effort to make certain that the tax dollars we appropriate actually help the victims and does not generate quick profits to big contractors.

It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working.

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.