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Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Actually Decent Diet Enjoy Even Every Get Health Instead Life Living Make Means Minute Mistakes Moment More More And More Night Obsession Our Race Relationships Relax Sleep Speed Struggle Suffer Through Work

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Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Clothes Design Ethical Fashion Furniture Green Jewellery Last Lifetime Lift Make Materials Objects Rather Season Slow Spirit Than Use

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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 wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Always Down Dust Everything Expect Expectations Feel Figure Magic Magic Wand Make Me Never Oracle People Public Public Figure Right Slow Some Them Wand Wanted Wave I Feel

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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Always Felt Guess Journalism Save Save The World Slightly Through Wanted World Writing

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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 every work thing.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Could Every Get Go Hours Invited Just Party Power Say Slow Thing Week Work Working

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I'm not a Luddite at all. 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 front of the God of Newness.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Come Fix Front Gadgets God Look Love Me Newness Oh Out Rest Stuff Think Works I Think I Love

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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Anxious Because Child Each Eggs Experience Families Fewer Genetic Give Lavish Less Mean Money More Parenting Parents Put Small Smaller Them Time Time And Money

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Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.

~Carl Honore

Topics: About Activity Being Century Children Early Enriching First Next Racing Warnings 20Th Century

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Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Activities Actually Benefit Busy Childhood Children Danger Diminishing Families Homework Just Kids Law Many Modern More Other Particularly Plenty Returns Schedule Structured Subject Technology Teenagers Thrive Trappings Would Young

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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Activities Children Getting Good Good Thing Many Much Thing Too Too Much A Good Thing

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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