Be quick and slow

Be quick and slow

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ù s ù f ǎ NCH í, which means to be too impatient to achieve the goal quickly. From the Analects of Confucius · Zilu.

Idiom explanation

Speed: fast; time: slow. It means to be too impatient to achieve the goal quickly.

The origin of Idioms

The Analects of Confucius · Zilu: "no desire for speed, no small profit. If you want to be quick, you can't achieve it. If you see small profits, you can't achieve great things. " In Liu Kezhuang's answer to Chen Yusi's household in Song Dynasty, it is said that "old people are afraid to sing, but if they want to be quick, they will be late."