Slowness Quotes - page 2

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new. (Phil Crosby)
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. View quote
Joseph Roux
All this slowness, all this hardness, The nearness that is waiting in my bed, The gradual self-effacement of the dead. View quote
Alun Lewis
Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus. View quote
Pope Francis
The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable. View quote
Mark Twain
Those with hard temperaments like to win through struggle; they don't like to be defeated. Inferior hard temperaments are explosive and rash, fierce and violent. Soft temperaments are placid and earnest. Inferior soft temperaments are weak-willed and do not seek a thorough understanding of the skills. Tai chi chuan stresses that hardness and softness complement each other. Training teaches one to be hard, but not excessively so, soft, yet not weak. This is to truly absorb the teachings.Those with soft temperaments easily improve. Those with inferior hard temperaments always mistake slowness and lack of force for sluggishness and weakness. Actually, slowness and forcelessness are fundamental aspects of training. Just as steel is produced by applying heat to iron, tempering it, skills of tai chi chuan are refined gradually over a long time. View quote
Wu Kung-tsao
How can I rest in the days of my slowness? I've become a strange piece of flesh, Nervous and cold, bird-furtive, whiskery, With a cheek soft as a hound's ear. What's left is light as a seed; I need an old crone's knowing. View quote
Theodore Roethke