1. Most of the affairs of the world depend on your own judgment when advancing or retreating.

Haste makes waste, sudden advance only leads to death.

——"A Night of Frost in Winter" by Chen Pu of the Song Dynasty

2. If there is no desire for haste, no small gain will be achieved.

(Don’t ask for speed, and don’t be greedy for small profits. If you seek speed, you will not achieve your goal, and if you are greedy for small profits, you will not achieve great things.)

——Confucius’s “The Analects”

3. If you want things to be done quickly, you will be hasty and disorderly, but you will not achieve them. Seeing the small as a benefit, what you gain is small, and what you lose is great.

——Zhu Xi

4. Laozi said: "A great thing comes late, and a great voice has its sound." Anyone who wants to be great in the world should not be too small or seek quick success. No one can achieve greatness by working small and seeking speed. People who are concerned about narrowness tend to do small things and seek speed. Therefore, the Master taught them to be far-reaching.

——Xu Ying

5. Those who desire speed have a restless heart; those who see small gains have a selfish heart. There are differences in yin and yang between the two, and their diseases are also caused by each other. All great things are not accomplished quickly, so those who desire to hasten will see small gains; if their minds are set in the long term, they will not move for benefit, so those who see small gains will always be motivated by the desire to hasten.

——"Notes on the Analects of Confucius"