Glacial Pace Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in Montana, where an old, unregistered rifle was worth a lot more than a new gun whose ownership could be traced. Not that the gun owners in Montana are planning on committing crimes with their unregistered guns - they just don't like the federal government knowing their every move. — Patricia Briggs

Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die. — William Braxton Irvine

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl ... or boy. — Adam Sandler

Try creating an interruption-free zone during the day - turn off your e-mail, phone, IM program, or BlackBerry - and see whether you get more done. — John Medina

If you can't say anything nice about somebody, step away from the voice enhancement equipment. — Gail Collins

You know you're putting a good thing out into the universe when you put on glitter. — Drew Barrymore

Discipline is a kind of divine hand for the mankind on the matter of achieving great successes! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He lay across the valley like a sparkling path, the setting sun catching fire on the way. — Anita Diamant

I do think of this prize as the GFP prize, and I happen to fortunately be one of the people that goes along for the ride. — Martin Chalfie

I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas. — Robin Ince

I've worked as grocery store cashier; I've worked at a bank call center and as a Lady Liberty for Liberty Tax Service dancing around with the sign for a while. — Ron Funches

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper. — Barbara Kingsolver

Two-thirds of the terminal cancer patients in the Coping with Cancer study reported having had no discussion with their doctors about their goals for end-of-life care, despite being, on average, just four months from death. But the third who did have discussions were far less likely to undergo cardiopulmonary resuscitation or be put on a ventilator or end up in an intensive care unit. Most of them enrolled in hospice. They suffered less, were physically more capable, and were better able, for a longer period, to interact with others. In addition, six months after these patients died, their family members were markedly less likely to experience persistent major depression. In other words, people who had substantive discussions with their doctor about their end-of-life preferences were far more likely to die at peace and in control of their situation and to spare their family anguish. — Atul Gawande

I know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain. — Kristin Hannah

Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine. — James Balog

I practiced what the Dalai Lama calls 'inner disarmament.' Of course, I still had judgments, but I tried to accept even my judgments without judgment. At a glacial pace, I moved beyond repression and self-criticism to something more skillful. I discovered the difference between recoiling from feelings and opening to them. I trained myself to be more curious than fearful. Sometimes I even felt compassion for myself as I struggled. — Mary Pipher

What if I choose the dream instead? — Libba Bray