Twitter can afford to build the wrong things. However, Twitter cannot afford to build the right things too slowly.
When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that’s what I did, slowly doing work in tiny theaters, building relationships with people in the business. It’s not a showy story.
I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.
The voice changes very slowly. I keep mine well under control and try with all my might to keep it exactly as it was at the very beginning.
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
Zuri is slowly starting to become more of who I am in real life. Starting on ‘Jessie,’ she had a huge imagination, and had her imaginary friends, but now that she’s 13 she has definitely passed that stage in her life and has grown so much.
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I’m always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I’m really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff.
We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It’s hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing.
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.
You cannot have players come on and not make the impact because the game will slowly slip away from you. It is important you are ready.
We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we’re recovering so slowly.
My mom had struggles. My dad had struggles. He raised me as a single parent. I rebelled and almost quit amateur boxing, but my faith in God had a lot to do with me slowly getting my life together.
Back in the ’90s, we saw prominent non-film artists like the Bombay Vikings do a splendid job on old classics and people danced to those new tunes without ever feeling that the song had been spoiled. We slowly saw this trend creeping into mainstream cinema.
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.
When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individuality were slowly returning after the austere, colorless low of the 1970s. When I returned to live in China from 2005 to 2013, the country was building everything anew.
I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.
Keep your world small, keep your focus on the thing right in front of you and slowly widen out that world-view.
Time goes by so slowly when you’re a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye.
Whatever I’m working on, the character I’m playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way – it’s just an innate kind of merging.
The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful.
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.
From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains only alleviated by work I do every day – art.
I am a Tony voter; it is an honor that I take seriously. Each season, I enter the process with a degree of enthusiasm and optimism, which dissipates as I slowly plow through show after show.
I don’t know if it’s a consequence of ‘Black Mirror,’ but I am slowly becoming more and more technophobic.
The computer tends to equalize everything, all the movies are slowly blending together, the way they look.
The whole Lower Ninth Ward hasn’t really recovered, but I feel a good spirit in my heart that something is going on – music is coming back slowly.
I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I’m doing and dream a little about this and that.
I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike – if I go too slowly, I’ll fall over. Or it’s kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I’ll just die.
We have accomplished our mission of stopping Iraq’s drive to take over Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East. We should begin to reduce our forces in Saudi Arabia, ever so slowly, and look to a more multinational force to keep the peace.
One of my sisters was doing dance, and I’d watch from the back of the classroom in my trainers. Slowly, I started integrating myself into the fraught south Oxford ballet culture.
Was I a businessman to start with? I’m not sure. I mean, that comes slowly, when you start having the products out. But at the same time, I was very determined. I knew that I had to make it work. I had no choice.
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
The great thing about people in the ’80s is there was a great zest for life. It was a really exciting era and the people who were around then are growing up very slowly. They almost don’t want to!
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.
More people with HIV/Aids are getting inexpensive anti-retroviral drugs, and their life expectancy has increased, but universal access is still far off, and the disease is still spreading, if more slowly than before.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly… very slowly.
Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted.
There is so little time for us all, I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible. Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.
In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I’ll come across a sentence that’s totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I’ll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong – I should’ve opened the door more slowly.
‘The Missing Picture’ came together slowly, after much provocation and by refusing different forms, until I finally found the right form.
Time moves too slowly for me to notice any evolution in my creative tendencies.
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
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.
It’s like with a girl: it’s more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it’s interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.
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 theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don’t want to start sinking slowly… I want to learn, blah blah blah. Then I think about actually going and sitting in classes and, man, it sounds terrible.
It is my goal to learn as much about the people I’m surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.
When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.
An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows… We’re reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa – just kind of open space.
I like to see the kids in my area wearing England shirts, not Pakistan or India ones. A lot of it comes from the older generations but it’s changing slowly, especially if people like myself and Ravi Bopara are playing for England.
The competitive spirit of basketball is slowly leaking out. Taking pride in one-on-one defense is slowly leaking out. It’s more about selling calls and flopping.
