Pace Quotes

• Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.

  Colin Powell

  Running, Fun, Military

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.

  William Bligh

  Eight, Years, Lasts

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.31, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.

  Trip Hawkins

  Healthy, Gamer, Online

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• Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.

  Loretta Lynn

  Trade, Know Me, My Friends

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• A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

  James Levine

  Change, People, Impatient

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• In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands.

  James Nasmyth

  Air, Hands, Order

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.156, BoD – Books on Demand

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• In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

  Harvey Cushing

  Waiting, Disease, Forget

  Harvey Cushing (1940). “Consecratio Medici: And Other Papers”

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• I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

  Perry Christie

  Illusion, Bowlers, Mediums

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• I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Thinking, Actors, Thrive

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• Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Games, Violence

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• We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

  Olympia Snowe

  Progress, Fields, Needs

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• In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

  Iris Murdoch

  Philosophy, Moving, Literature

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.500, Penguin

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  I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Peace, Boys

  Thomas Jefferson (1997). “Thomas Jefferson, His Words and Vision”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

  Ice T

  Rap, Records, Casual

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• Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

  Barack Obama

  Military, War, Iraq

  Speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, July 12, 2004.

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• I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

  Yancy Butler

  Theatre, Fantastic, Old Movie

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• Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

  Alison Moyet

  Nice, Thinking, Artist

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• As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

  Sam Brownback

  Eugenics, Giving, Progress

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• A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Pain, Race

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• Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

  Paul Anka

  Country, Perspective, Canada

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• For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Talking

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• Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

  Frederick Winslow Taylor

  Time, Work, Doe

  Frederick Winslow Taylor (1947). “Scientific Management, Comprising Shop Management: The Principles of Scientific Management [and] Testimony Before the Special House Committee”, New York, Harper

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• Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

  Arsene Wenger

  Together, Physical Attraction, Attraction

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• Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

  Kate Chopin

  People, Mad, Personality

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.187, Xist Publishing

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• Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

  Christian Dior

  Birthday, Women, Race

  1955 In Collier's Magazine, 10 Jun.

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