A Quote by Walt Stack

Start slowly, then taper off. — © Walt Stack
Start slowly, then taper off.

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Walt Stack
1908 - January 19, 1995
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.
Start slow and taper off.
Start from the body, and then go, slowly slowly, deeper. And don't start with anything else unless you have first solved the primary. If your body is tense, don't start with the mind. Wait. Work on the body. And just small things are of immense help.
From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.
I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.
With our movies, you start off getting to know the characters in the way that you meet someone in real life, and then slowly, over time, you get little clues as to who they are. By the end there are still some mysteries, but hopefully you're starting to understand them more.
In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.
It's not easy. I make snap judgments, too, and I start to write people off. And then I start to remind myself of how I'm constantly asking judges not to write people off. And so then I try to resist it.
But then you become closed. Then you start dying as far as your intelligence is concerned because intelligence needs the open sky, the wind, the air, the sun in order to grow, to expand, to flow. To remain alive it needs a constant flow; if it becomes stagnant it becomes slowly slowly a dead phenomenon.
What happens with artists, or people who start off doing things for the right reasons, is that you slowly start to paint yourself into a corner by doing what people outside of the creative world are asking you to do, and I think that's antithetical to being an artist.
One must practice slowly, then more slowly, and finally slowly.
People usually start off on a high note in their careers and then wane off and then restart with a comeback.
If you're going to stop masturbating, you can't taper off. You've got to quit, cold jerky!
My career started slowly and then tapered off.
For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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