Nature is very un-American. Nature never hurries. Every phase of her working shows plan, calmness, reliability and the absence of hurry. Hurry always implies lack of definite method, confusion, impatience of slow growth….
Hurry seeks ever to make energy a substitute for a clearly defined plan…
Hurry is a counterfeit of haste. Haste has an ideal, a distinct aim to be realized by the quickest, direct methods. Haste has a single compass upon which it relies for direction and in harmony with which its course is determined. Hurry says:
“I must move faster. I will get three compasses; I will have them different; I will be guided by all of them. One of them will probably be right.”
Hurry never realizes that slow, careful foundation work is the quickest in the end.
Hurry has ruined more Americans than has any other word in the vocabulary of life. It is the scourge of America; and it is both a cause and a result of our high-pressure civilization.
Hurry always pays the highest price for everything, and, usually the goods are not delivered.
William George Jordan, “Self-Control”
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