Speed Quotes - Page 11

• I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that wind-in-my-face feeling while speed skating.

  Bonnie Blair

  Falling In Love, Ice, Wind

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• There is a lightning quickness to the speed at which candidates can build and accidentally dismantle their own campaigns. If candidates don't figure out their place in the new digital world of politics, they will be destroyed by it.

  Bill Burton

  World, Digital, Lightning

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• Grandpa did everything at his own pace, a speed that my sister and I referred to as 'when snails attack.' ... My grandparents' house was only about ten miles from ours, but the ride there would necessitate sandwiches packed for the trip, and several books to keep us occupied.

  Jenny Lawson

  Book, Grandpa, House

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well-being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere.

  David Suzuki

  Light, Air, Water

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• Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Skating, Kind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Bigs, Slabs, Dialogue

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• I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?" I couldn't think of anyone.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Thinking, Issues, Grants

  "On Writing Speedily", first published in The New York Times Book Review (1986); republished in "Miles Gone By : A Literary Autobiography" by William F. Buckley Jr., (p. 405), 2004.

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• Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

  Publilius Syrus

  Delay, Anxious, Seems

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• There is no time like Spring
  When life's alive in everything,
  Before new nestlings sing,
  Before cleft swallows speed their journey back
  Along the trackless track.

  Christina Rossetti

  Spring, Journey, Track

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.83, Delphi Classics

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• The power of magic has no known limits. A person knows, in a fair way, his own physical capacities, the weight of the blows he can deal, the furthest range of his arrows, the strength of his voice, the speed and endurance of his running; but the reaches of his mind are indefinite and, to his feeling, infinite.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Running, Blow, Voice

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• Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run.

  William Davenant

  Running, Seems

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• Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Distance, Race

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• The physical act of meditating by closing one's eyes and slowing down the speed of internal thoughts - especially worrisome thinking - results in a physiological response that is well documented in the scientific literature.

  Tim McCarthy

  Eye, Thinking, Literature

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• Work hard! Just keep working hard until you can do something you want to do! We all progress at different speeds and in different ways, so be patient and keep working hard!

  Hiromi

  Hard Work, Progress, Different

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• It's really up to me to speed up my learning curve as a player so I can contribute in a much bigger way night in and night out.

  Kevin Martin

  Player, Night, Curves

  Source: thestartingfive.net

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• I like the sprints so much because it's very explosive, very aggressive, and quite physical sometimes as well. On top of that you've got the speed, so it's a big adrenaline rush coming into the sprints all the time. I love that bit!

  Magnus Backstedt

  Sometimes, Bigs, Adrenaline

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I just work, to the exclusion of most other things. I rarely work in a frenzied manner, just kind of - if you take the beater that whips the icing or the eggs into shape - on the upper end of medium speed, that's kind of how I am about seven days a week.

  Henry Rollins

  Eggs, Shapes, Icing

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• In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the - they've had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They're wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They're doing something that I think is interestingly physical.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Cds, Interesting

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Knives, Snakes, Numbers

  "Sloane Crosley on rubber animals and seeing through celebrity crushes". Interview with Ryan Vlastelica, www.avclub.com. October 1, 2015.

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• I dream of a Digital India where high-speed Digital Highways unite the Nation.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Technology, Digital India

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• Space may seem distant, but is an integral part of our daily life. It drives our modern communication and connects even the remotest family to the ordinary. India's space programme is a perfect example of our vision of Scale, Speed and Skill.

  Narendra Modi

  Communication, Technology, Skills

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• The need of the hour is to think big. The more we focus on skill, scale & speed, it will increase India's growth trajectory.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Thinking, Skills

  Twitter post from Jun 8, 2014

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• We know there are a lot of good secondaries out there. We are just trying to focus on what we can do to get better. We've got some new, young guys coming in and we are trying to catch them up to speed. We are trying to make sure that we have depth, making sure the guys behind us know what is going on. We are going to keep pushing each other to raise the standard for our secondary.

  Eric Berry

  Focus, Guy, Trying

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I've been on sets where the turnaround is so fast and the budget so small that the actors have been asked to speed things up and save money by changing in the public toilets. There's no room for vanity at times like that. It's the best way: get on with it!

  Anna Friel

  Vanity, Actors, Toilets

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• You have to constantly recreate yourself in show business, which is a very fast thing, especially now with the tremendous speed of social media. There are so many personalities, so many different kinds of comedy that you can access, so it’s definitely important to stake your claim and say who you are.

  Margaret Cho

  Media, Personality, Important

  "'I Want to Talk About How We Can Use Our Anger to Heal': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. September 30, 2015.

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