This takes time, of course, but sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.
—Haruki Murakami1

If you’re in a hurry, the last thing you want to hear is that you need to slow down and take your time. But, ironically, going slowly and methodically sometimes turns out to be the fastest way to get where you want to go.

  1. Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Knopf (2008), p. 161. ↩︎