Speed Quotes - Page 30

• I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

  Brooks Robinson

  Player, Average, Bats

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• To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

  Steve Carlton

  Sports, Distance, Practice

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• The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Sports, Car, Racing

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. August 2, 2002.

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• Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Art, Men, Civilization

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• The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Running, Technology, Long

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

  George Saunders

  Football, Running, Couple

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain sovereign powers, while in reality the federal government appears able to dictate everything from the ingredients of school lunches to speed limits. Congress now routinely collects taxes in order to return the money to the states with conditions on their conforming to federal demands.

  Jonathan Turley

  Party, School, Reality

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• Not so in haste, my heart! Have faith in God and wait; Although he linger long, He never comes too late. He never comes too late, He knoweth what is best: Vex not thyself in vain; Until he cometh, rest. Until he cometh, rest. Nor grudge the hours that roll: The feet that wait for God Are soonest at the goal. Are soonest at the goal. That is not gained by speed; Then hold thee still, my heart, For I shall wait his lead.

  Bradford Torrey

  Heart, Feet, Long

  Bradford Torrey, “Not So In Haste, My Heart”

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• The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

  Randall E. Stross

  Creativity, Technology, Order

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• If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.

  Gautama Buddha

  Meditation, Missing, Receiving

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• To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind's hearing to your ears' natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning.

  Peter Senge

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Suffering, Haste

  Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.547

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• This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is enthralling, edge-of-the-seat stuff, but sometimes it is too fast and frenetic for its own good.

  Daniel Taylor

  Soccer, Football, Hockey

  "Kenyon's talk is cheap but Chelsea's big ideas need more than money" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2006.

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• Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions

  Matt Selman

  Games, Speech, Chess

  Twitter post from Apr 08, 2016

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• It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.

  Herodotus

  Horse, Rain, Journey

  Herodotus (1961). “Herodotus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed, and there will be nothing we can do to cut the speed of climate change.

  Mark Lynas

  Ocean, Cutting, Climate

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• Switchin' speeds like Bruce Lee ridin' up Fuji in a movie.

  Redman

  Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Can't Wait, Album: Dare Iz a Darkside

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• Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe
  What could you say as the Earth gets further and further away
  Planets are small as balls of clay
  Astray into the Milky Way, world's outasight
  Far as the eye can see, not even a satellite
  Now stop and turn around and look
  As you stare in the darkness, your knowledge is took!
  So keep starin' soon you suddenly see a star
  You better follow it, cause it's the R.

  Rakim

  Stars, Rap, Eye

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• Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Light, Space, Fusion

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.

  B. C. Forbes

  Persistence, Race, Important

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• Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wise, Odds, Smoking

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• To me, speed is really about convenience.

  Marissa Mayer

  Convenience

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• Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Hurt, Pain, Healing

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• It's all we ever wantedAnd all we'll ever needAnd now it's slipping through our fingersFaster than the speed of night.

  Jim Steinman

  Night, Slipping

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• A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.

  Max Weber

  Unique, Organization, Unity

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