Faster Quotes - Page 10

• When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Years, Play, Stronger

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• 'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.

  Stephen Hunter

  Cost, Horror, Progression

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• Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

  Vanilla Ice

  Song, Negativity, Spread

  Interview with Nate Erickson, www.gq.com. April 5, 2013.

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  If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

  "Q&A: The Rev Jesse Jackson". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.

  Steve Jobs

  Cutting, Use, Done

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Reality, Technology

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Baby, Men, Giving

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• I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.

  Akshay Kumar

  Mistake, Land, People

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• Being faster would probably make me better at football.

  Frank Lampard

  Football

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• Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Jobs, Bird, Different

  "Angry Birds Creator Raises $42 Million" by Evelyn M. Rusli, dealbook.nytimes.com. March 10, 2011.

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• You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting.

  Charles Jencks

  Horse, Talking, Culture

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• Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens enjoy fast driving.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Safety, Citizens, Driving

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• In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

  Hanna Rosin

  Men, Opening Up, Entrepreneurship

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• Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Doe, Tasks, Cost

  "Are jobs obsolete?". www.cnn.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, Space, Suits

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• Good. Illegal is always faster.

  Eoin Colfer

  Crime, Illegal

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• The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Men, Boys, Interesting

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.170, Penguin

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• His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Stars, Flower

  The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

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• Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

  Joe Hill

  Together

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• The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Lying, Character

  The Conduct of Life "Worship" (1860)

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• A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Gains, Saved

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• He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

  J. K. Rowling

  Running, Humor, Funny Harry Potter

  "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 21, 2007.

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• When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Men, Doe

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they will come to a halt and they will all begin to fall towards the centre of the universe again. And then there will be nothing to stop us seeing all the stars in the world because they will all be moving towards us, gradually faster and faster, and we will know that the world is going to end soon because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

  Mark Haddon

  Stars, Moving, Fall

  FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Jul 26, 2012

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• Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that.

  David McCullough

  Mean, America, Ignorant

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 22, 2012

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