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I don't feel like I'm slowing down.

Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.

I'm not that patient sometimes. I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.

The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.