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To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

— Kenneth Clark

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

— Ovid

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

— Livy

Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead.

— Guillaume Canet

When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.

— John Wooden

Time sometimes passes quite quickly.

— Jimmy Page

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.

— George Steiner

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

— Henry David Thoreau

For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.

— Romesh Gunesekera

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

— Victor Hugo

✗Opposing Perspectives

The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time.

— Tony Buzan