Make haste slowly
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“Faced with these uncertainties, we expect the RBA to make haste slowly, commencing a tightening cycle from mid-2023 onwards.”
From Reuters
Start in secret; explore options; as the ancients advised, “make haste slowly.”
From Washington Post
Sitting there you must embrace the ancient, contradictory notion of festina lente: to make haste slowly.
From New York Times
It then shared a link to its definition of oxymoron: “A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in ‘cruel kindness’ or ‘to make haste slowly.’
From New York Times
Festina lente is Latin for “Make haste slowly,” a paradoxical phrase that seems to capture that particular Sarajevan mind-set of intensity done at a leisurely pace.
From New York Times
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