A Quote by Paul de Man

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

Paul de Man

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Nothing Quickly Reads Slowly Too Understands

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Paul de Man
Belgian - Critic
December 6, 1919 - December 21, 1983

Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.

Melody Beattie

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

Blaise Pascal

Pace doesn't mean speed; it means the right speed. Diagnosis and cure are simple. If you've reached where you want to be in your story too quickly, ask yourself what you've left out. If you've come to a certain point too slowly, ask yourself what kept you so long.

Reginald Hill

He who knows nothing loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.

Paracelsus

When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly.

Sherry Argov

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

When you get too much, too quickly, too easily, you don't learn to fight.

Ann Reinking

All excuses are nothing more than misalignments with God. Just imagine the great creative Source needing an excuse. It doesn't have any concept of, "I'm too busy. I'm too old. I'm too afraid. Things are going to take too long." Source doesn't work like that. The Tao does nothing, Lao-tzu writes, but it leaves nothing undone.

Wayne Dyer

Indeed, when God's glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or too familiar that it cannot contain and renew by its touch. Every time I recognize the glory of God in me and give it space to manifest itself to me, all that is human can be brought there and nothing will be the same again.

Henri Nouwen

You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.

Helen Fisher

I think its very easy to try to launch things too quickly and do things too quickly and not pay attention to the details along the way.

Baiju Bhatt

Pause and remember - Slow and steady will get you where you want to go. If you put too much pressure on yourself for results too quickly, you will quickly give up.

Jennifer Young

Your deeper sense isn’t a springboard; it’s a landing place. If you draw conclusions too quickly or too slowly, you’ll establish your self where it doesn’t belong. The fine line between the two is in your own deeper sense. It is in your actual knowing within that deeper sense.

John de Ruiter

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

What's comfortable to me is familiarity. Comfort has nothing to do with the size of the garment. I do find something quite comfortable and charming in a too-narrow shoulder, a sleeve that's too short or too long, a pant that's too high or too low, hems that are trod on.