Russell, Bertrand. In Praise of Idleness. London: Routledge, 2001.

Nadolny, Sten. The Discovery of Slowness. Revised edition. Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2003.

Shifting the mind into lower gear can bring better health, inner calm, enhanced concentration and the ability to think more creatively.

In our fast-moving modern world, it always seems that the time-train is pulling out of the station just as we reach the platform. No matter how fast we go, no matter how cleverly we schedule, there are never enough hours in the day.

every living being, event, process or object has its own inherent time or pace, its own tempo giusto.

Working less often means working better.

Technology, meanwhile, has allowed work to seep into every corner of life.

In the war against the cult of speed, the front line is inside our heads. Acceleration will remain our default setting until attitudes change. But changing what we think is just the beginning. If the Slow movement is really to take root, we have to go deeper. We have to change the way we think.

The clock is the operating system of modern capitalism, the thing that makes everything else possible—meetings, deadlines, contracts, manufacturing processes, schedules, transport, working shifts.