The Power of Slow Quotes

“there’s no such thing as time management since you can’t manage something you can’t control.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“Thinking is an important aspect of the power of slow. But sometimes we overthink things to the degree that we completely paralyze ourselves.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“Embracing the power of slow requires a willingness to adopt a saner pace of life that does not involve the knee-jerk response of being so busy. In effect, telling someone you are busy is like telling them to bug off.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“It may sound radical, but banning devices from the dinner table will improve your quality of life as you begin to concentrate on the food you eat and the people around you.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“As we mentioned in the very beginning, our lives are encased between two time notations—time of birth and time of death.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“In fact, the do-it-yourself philosophy rests on the premise that it will get done right only if you do it yourself. This type of thinking kills the power of delegation and your relationship with time because the truth is no one can do everything all the time.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“If we allow others to continuously dishonor our time and theirs, we can never fully come into alignment with time itself.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“The Gimme Gremlins are the kinds of people who are never satisfied. They set unrealistic expectations for themselves and others. They leave upset in their wake and if you’re not careful, you might get swept up in the wave, too.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“That means the quality of time off impacts the respite effect of leisure more than the quantity of days. In other words, fully unplugging for a few days can have the same recharging quality as taking off a full year.7”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“In the minds of many, free time is considered a guilty pleasure reserved for the lazy or filthy rich.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“Procrastination is an expression of denial, stemming from a deep-seated fear of failure and a lack of our own engagement in life.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“Most of the time people have trouble admitting to feeling fear, so they make excuses instead. Procrastination is all about the excuses, whether they’re voiced out loud or just race around in our heads.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“Programming your mind to be attuned to healthy habits instead of unhealthy ones is a simple (although not always easy) adjustment.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“Identify just one thing you might do differently, then try it out for thirty days. It may seem ridiculous in the beginning, but”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“Feelings of restlessness, incompletion, irritability, and anxiety when not doing a task are symptoms of an addiction.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“Trying to do too many things at once produces that jangled, error-prone condition that used to be called stress, but is now referred to as multitasking. —George H. Northrup, PhD, president, New York State Psychological Association”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“Flow is described as the state of consciousness in which you find joy in the simple execution of a task, often losing yourself completely in it.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“While you cannot control time itself, you can control the activities with which you fill the time that you do have.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“Urgency has nothing to do with the time you have, but with the feeling that you don’t have enough of it.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“But for Principle #2, challenge yourself to find joy in the simple waiting for things. Try to break it up into chunks. For instance, if you know you might have to wait an hour to see the eye doctor, tell yourself the first fifteen minutes you will read a magazine. The next ten you might write a letter or do a crossword puzzle. For at least five minutes, close your eyes and do nothing. Listen to the noises around you. Absorb the world from a new perspective, through your ears instead of your eyes.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“Slowing down long enough to actually think and become aware of your surroundings leads you to a deeper understanding of why you do the things you do.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“Slow does not mean stop; it means to be mindful. The power of slow can be defined as the unmatchable force unleashed when you embrace your truest purpose in life.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World

“How can you manage something as uncontrollable as time? It exists whether we do or not.”
― Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World