Pace

Famous quotes containing the word pace:

“Moving, yet still.
So they run on,
Until, with a falter,
A flicker soon gone
Their pace starts to alter....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which hears, however measured or far away.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The university is no longer a quiet place to teach and do scholarly work at a measured pace and contemplate the universe. It is big, complex, demanding, competitive, bureaucratic, and chronically short of money.”
—Phyllis Dain (b. 1930)