Speed Quotes - Page 38

• The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

  Lance Armstrong

  Math, Race, Space

  "Every Second Counts". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, 2003.

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• Affirm the body, beautiful and whole,
  The earth-expression of immortal soul.
  
  Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour,
  To speed between thee and the source of power.
  
  Affirm the spirit, the Eternal I -
  Of this great trinity no part deny.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Beautiful, Expression, Soul

  "New Thought Pastels" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, ("Affirm"), 1913.

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• It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Quick Wit, Perfection, Advantage

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• Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

  Abby Sunderland

  Wall, Eye, Feet

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There is a tremendous problem in modern culture. We have become used to everything coming to us with tremendous speed and ease. It is a culture where discipline and patience is almost impossible to develop.

  Robert Greene

  Discipline, Culture, Ease

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Athlete, People

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber optic cables to speed up digital revolution. They work by the light of a few candles.

  Arundhati Roy

  Night, Light, Digital Revolution

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

  Louis Sachar

  School, Sadness, Years

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• When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Stupid, Thinking, Car

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• The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle

  Arthur Quinn

  Government, Omission, People

  Arthur Quinn (2012). “Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase”, p.7, Routledge

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• Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds ahead on its divine wings. What we cannot see, desire describes, and then it goads us to travel on until we have given birth to Joy.

  Wendy Farley

  Optimistic, Wings, Joy

  Wendy Farley (2005). “The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth”, p.16, Westminster John Knox Press

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• In the course of waging that war, the people of Canada had shown that it was possible for them to maintain nearly a million men in uniform and at the same time expand all the facilities for production within Canada at an unprecedented speed, including building industries which had never existed in Canada before... and by and large the cost of production in Canada compared favourable with the cost of production anywhere else among the Allies... All of this was accomplished without any foreign investment, without and foreign loans... We were quite capable of self-development.

  Tim Buck

  War, Men, Self

  "Tim Buck: A Conscience for Canada". Book by Oscar Ryan, 1975.

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• The Fulton Fish Market will be more of an odor than a landmark at this time of day, but it really swings out at four o'clock in the morning - another Timothy 'Speed' Levitch recommendation if you can't sleep and you like fish.

  Timothy Levitch

  Morning, Sleep, Swings

  "The Cruise". Documentary, October 23, 1998.

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• speed is the curse of the age.

  Georgette Heyer

  Age, Curse

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “Death in the Stocks”, p.188, Random House

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• The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Drinking, Sleep, Home

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.33, Del Rey

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• I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him.

  Vance Havner

  Winning, Men, Feet

  Vance Havner (0101). “It is Time”, p.62, Solid Christian Books

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• If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.

  Johan Cruijff

  Running, Games, Play

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• Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Meaningful, Racing, Training

  "Once a Runner: A Novel". Book by John L. Parker, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.

  Tracy Morgan

  Light, News, Molasses

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• Tachyon OPC+ is a natural extension of our market-winning Tachyon platform, giving customers a clear path to minimizing the OPC error budget and producing better-performing circuits sooner and faster. Until now, customers have had to deal with a delicate balance of compromises when producing advanced OPC-enabled circuits, including trading accuracy for speed. Tachyon OPC+ breaks free from these compromises.

  Bill Vaughan

  Winning, Errors, Giving

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• Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.

  Bill Vaughan

  Moving, Mergers, Efficiency

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• Sony is a clear leader in the digital camera and camcorder categories. As Sony continues to develop next-generation video and still image capture technologies, the demand for high speed, large capacity, small form factor memory cards will grow as well.

  Bill Vaughan

  Memories, Technology, Leader

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• Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them to respond directly and with speed to customer concerns.

  Sally Helgesen

  Leadership, Top Down, Use

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• Money is always on its way somewhere; we are only a way station. What we do with it while it's in our keeping will say much about us - as will the direction it takes after we speed it on its way.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Money, Way, Stations

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• Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Information, Way, Pressure

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.98, Harvard University Press

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