Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.
I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.
[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.
Haste is slow. [Lat. , Festinatio tarda est. ]
. . . with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so that it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all.
But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.
Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.
Are you calling me out? (Varyk) I’m calling you slow. Not out. (Dev)
It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.
But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat. , Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est. ]
When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process.
Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
Perfectionism is slow death.
When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth.
Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.
Death by starvation is slow.
Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
