Pace Quotes - Page 23

• The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Rose, Democracy

  Thomas Paine (1835). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.87

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• It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Order, Class

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.231, Routledge

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• It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Mind, Progress

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

  Aeschylus

  Death, Home, Men

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.414, Delphi Classics

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• When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.

  Karl Marx

  Ideas, People, Elements

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.260, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.

  Sara Genn

  Art, Doors, House

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• Apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down.

  Tyler Cowen

  Technology, Space, Age

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• We are the first men of a Future that has not materialized. We belong to a "great age" that has not "come off". We moved too quickly for the world. We set too sharp a pace.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Age, World

  Wyndham Lewis (1967). “Blasting & Bombardiering”, p.256, Univ of California Press

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• Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.

  Anthony Daniels

  Fashion, Clothes, Aspiration

  "Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass". Book by Theodore Dalrymple, 2001.

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• I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do.

  Bill Cosby

  Communication, Eye, People

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• We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed with theirs. Humans cannot move at the same rate as machines. When we attempt to, we lose contact with our own humanness.

  Tian Dayton

  Moving, Trying, Robots

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• The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on series television is, there's not a lot of hanging-out time. You're pumping those pages out, you're doing six, seven, eight pages a day. And I like that pace.

  Joe Mantegna

  Differences, Eight, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.

  Elijah Wood

  Character, Differences, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

  Richard Ford

  Pace Of Life, Dangerous, Feels

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• As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

  Colm Meaney

  Nice, Crazy, Character

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Black, Care, Enough

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• Rabbits are a foolish people. They do not fight except with their own kind, nor use their paws except for feet, and appear to have no reason for existence but to furnish meals for meat-eaters. In flight they seem to rebound from the earth of their own elasticity, but keep a sober pace going to the spring. It is the young watercress that tempts them and the pleasures of society, for they seldom drink.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Spring, Fighting, Feet

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.25, Rutgers University Press

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• Remembering that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Two, Heaven, Shadow

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter VI, Section 9,

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• The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.

  B. C. Forbes

  Class, Public Opinion, Railroads

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• You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Moving, Growth

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• A woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers.

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Men, Thinking, Reason

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• Don't try to change the world.
  First, change yourself or rather, your self-perception, and you find the world automatically corresponding to the level of your understanding.
  You will find that it has always been you who set the pace and depth of your experience by recognizing and honoring your true nature.

  Mooji

  Self, Understanding, Perception

  Mooji (2017). “White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji”, p.381, New Harbinger Publications

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• To put it simply, we first explain what we are talking about, and then explain why what we are saying is true (pace Bertrand Russell).

  IU?. I. Manin

  Talking, Firsts, Mathematics

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• I may sound like a megalomaniac, but I feel like I'm equipped to become a great, memorable comedian, if I keep working my ass off and staying at the pace I'm at, and I feel a responsibility to do that because of the women who have done it before me, and the ones who need to do it after me.

  Amy Schumer

  Memorable, Responsibility, Comedian

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Craig Beattie's quick, he's very fast, and he's got great pace

  Alex McLeish

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