To rush is to try to compress time

We do things quickly—not better, but quickly—to gain time. But what’s the point if in the time we gain we just do more things quickly?

In a world geared for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry—to allow things to take the time they take—is a way to gain purchase on the world, to do the work that counts, and to derive satisfaction from the doing itself,