festina lente

festina lente

A Latin phrase that translates as "make haste slowly," meaning to act with due diligence, focus, or attention to detail in order to avoid mistakes and finish a task more expeditiously overall. I know we're all eager to get the new software released to the public, but we must make "festina lente" our motto. We don't want to end up wasting time fixing bugs that shouldn't be there in the first place. I know you're nervous about being late, but please, festina lente—unless you want to be pulled over for speeding!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • make haste slowly
  • more haste, less speed
  • in petto
  • a word to the wise
  • (as) sure as eggs (is eggs)
  • a penny for them
  • je ne sais quoi
  • Ne
  • be in great haste
  • haste
References in periodicals archive
In simple terms, it is as the ancient saying goes: festina lente - more haste, less speed.
Thus Festina lente becomes Eile mit Weile in German, with a coinciding internal rhyme.
Dogfish Head, the hot East Coast micro, is releasing four winter beers on December 1: Au Courant, Festina Lente, Pangea and WorldWide Stout.
Festina Lente is a "neo-lambic ale" that that goes through both a yeast and bacteria fermentation, and is aged on oak chips and Delaware peaches.
human therapy in Ireland and Britain - such as Riding for the Disabled, Festina Lente in County Wicklow, and the Barrettstown Gang Camp Fund (founded by actor Paul Newman) - Shetlands have been trained to act as guide ponies for the blind in Nottinghampshire.
The 20ft Festina Lente with a couple from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, on board, grounded in thick fog on rocks at East Scar and suffered a damaged rudder.
His trademark, a dolphin twined around an anchor, was explained by Erasmus: festina lente, "make haste slowly" (fast dolphin, steadfast anchor), and is still a favorite device with European and American publishers.
Quickness, for Calvino, has nothing to do with the hurry that constantly overshadows the work of the architect - his motto is festina lente, make haste slowly.
While Summa extends itself temporally through the device of pitch rotation, Festina lente (1980, revised 1990), for string orchestra, uses mensuration canon as its dominant structural principle, a feature it shares with works such as Arbos (1977) and Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (1980).
Doctoroff, Skanska USA Civil President/CEO Salvatore Mancini, and world-renowned architect Santiago Calatrava, Principal, Festina Lente LLC.
THE Cheltenham Festival has come and gone, but three equine-related charities (Festina Lente, Fettercairn Youth Horse Project and the Jockeys' Accident Fund) will continue to benefit from well over e12,000 raised through our Cheltenham preview at The Submarine in Dublin.
The change of tone may be due to his stay in Venice: whereas Paris for him was a stronghold of scholasticism, Venice represented Greek manuscripts and humanism, as he makes clear in his praise of Aldus Manutius and his circle (included in the essay "Festina lente," Adagia 1001).
[118] In his Adagia (1536), Desiderius Erasmus forcefully recommends Festina lente ("Make haste slowly"), a truly "royal" maxim, to contemporary rulers.
(14) On the hieroglyphic nature of proverbs, see "Festina lente," II.i.1 in Erasmus, 1982, 171-90.