Rapids Quotes

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

George Washington

Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.55, Rowman & Littlefield

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In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

Brian Tracy

Moving On, Action, Rapid Change

FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Sep 15, 2012

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I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.

Lydia Lunch

Reflection, Glasses, Mirrors

Lydia Lunch (1997). “Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary”, Creation Publishing Group

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Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

Ron Suskind

Stress, Suffering, Stuff

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I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in a rush of gold to the head, through black and cold, red and cold, brown and warm, giving water the weight and size of myself in order to imagine it, water with my bones, water with my mouth and my understanding. When my body was in some way a wave to swim in, one continuous fin from head to tail, I steered through rapids like a canoe, digging my hands in, keeping just ahead of the river.

Alice Oswald

Hands, Order, Rivers

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As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.

George R. Stewart

Running, War, Fate

George R. Stewart (1993). “Earth Abides”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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For every mistake that you learn from you will save thousands of similar mistakes in the future, so if you treat mistakes as learning opportunities that yield rapid improvements you should be excited by them. But if you treat them as bad things, you will make yourself and others miserable, and you won't grow.

Ray Dalio

Life, Mistake, Opportunity

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Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.

Stephen Jay Gould

Past, Technology, Differences

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We are at a critical point where rapid change is forcing us to look not just to new ways of solving problems but to new problems to solve.

Tim Brown

Looks, Way, Problem

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Television moves so fast. A series moves at such a rapid pace and things are changing, episode to episode, where you're going, "Wait, why am I doing this? This last episode, you told me I was doing this." You're shooting at a moving target.

Mike Vogel

Moving, Waiting, Target

Source: collider.com

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That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

Cordell Hull

War, Mean, Scary

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I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot which, however, did not hamper my rapid progress.

Siegbert Tarrasch

Parent, Progress, World

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I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. In my own work this has been particularly true.

Ernest Lawrence

Science, Past, Achievement

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Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world.

Al Gore

Technology, Civilization, World

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Semi-automatic s have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in a while, yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel. Their other use-their only other use-is to kill people.

Stephen King

Fire, Two, People

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Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval.

Lloyd Grove

Army, Knives, Google

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When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.

Barack Obama

Fall, Night, People

Obama Wall Street Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2009.

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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

Novalis

Doctors, Musical, Disease

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Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

Carl Sagan

Causes, Serious, Evolution

Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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You have to have a military and intelligence approach to removing leadership that results in rapid frequent removals from the battlefield. It's got to be one, two a week, not just one or two every three or four months.

Michael Morell

Military, Two, Three

Source: www.politico.com

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In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human vision reaches, merely raising his eyelids; or if he is too lazy to look after all, he can hardly help hearing the ceaseless dash and roar of the breakers. The restless ocean may at any moment cast up a whale or a wrecked vessel at your feet. All the reporters in the world, the most rapid stenographers, could not report the news it brings.

Henry David Thoreau

Ocean, Whales, Sea

Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.

Brian Tracy

Reality, Turbulence, Rapid Change

FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jan 17, 2011

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The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.

Benjamin Franklin

Sorry, Distance, Men

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When possums were introduced in 1837 to start a fur industry, no one predicted that these Australian neighbours would naturalize with destructive enthusiasm, wreaking havoc on gardens and bush alike. Up to 20 million possums a year were killed during the height of the fur trade, but this barely checked their rapid expansion.

Bee Dawson

Garden, Years, Expansion

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