Occupation: Journalist Birth: 1967
I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say no. The power of slow is the power of no. I can’t go to every party I get invited to. I can’t do ever….
Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a jour….
Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them..
The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly..
In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff ….
I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, ‘Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don’t.’ I’m not genuflecting in ….
Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead o….
My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call….
In our hedonistic age, the Slow movement has a marketing ace up its sleeve: it peddles pleasure. The central tenet of the Slow philosophy is taking t….
I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wa….
This is where our obsession with going fast and saving time leads. To road rage, air rage, shopping rage, relationship rage, office rage, vacation ra….
The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with n….
In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise ….
The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Ein….
Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and ….
Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot,….
I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly..
Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table i….
By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they ….
Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet..
Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong..