Speed Quotes - Page 6

• Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

  Conor Oberst

  World, Individual, Music Is

  Source: www.ew.com

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• It's great that the Internet can enhance and speed up our communications and that computers can do all the things they do. It's fabulous. At the same time, it changes our priorities. For example, before I would always remember people's telephone numbers and now I don't know anyone's number. So what happens if computer systems go down but you still have landlines? Well, I couldn't call anyone because I don't know anyone's number.

  Misha Glenny

  Communication, Priorities, Fabulous

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As the years progressed, my spiritual evolution seemed to increase in speed. I stepped outside this world, the selves reordered. The combination, the aggregate of beings that I was, dissolved in the white light of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Years, White

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• I advised Chambers, and would advise every young man beginning to compose, to do it as fast as he can, to get a habit of having his mind to start promptly; it is so much more difficult to improve in speed than in accuracy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, Mind

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.343

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• EA called my agency and made us an offer and I was really enthusiastic about this, really excited to do it. I had Need for Speed: Underground already, the first one. And I'm a bit of a gamer, and definitely car enthusiast, so I've done a lot of things to my cars that people can do in this game. Everything from after-market kits to styling them, exteriorly with wheels, rims, and kits. You name it I have some fun doin' that.

  Brooke Burke

  Fun, Agency, Games

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• At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Order, People

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• Not too long ago, my opponent made a prediction. He said I would probably win Pennsylvania, he would win North Carolina, and Indiana would be the tiebreaker. Well, tonight we've come from behind, we've broken the tie, and, thanks to you, it's full speed on to the White House.

  Hillary Clinton

  Winning, Long Ago, White

  "Obama Extends Lead; Full Speed Ahead for Hillary Clinton: She's Staying in Until the End". "American Morning", www.cnn.com. May 7, 2008.

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• It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strong, Children, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.75, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When we find ourselves devoid of passion and purpose, the first thing we need to do is stop. But that's not easy. The rest of the world is zooming by at full speed. Left alone with ourselves, without a project to occupy us, we can become nervous and self-critical about what we should be doing and feeling. This can be so uncomfortable that we look for any distraction rather than allowing ourselves the space to be as we are.

  Dawna Markova

  Passion, Self, Space

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, p.15, Conari Press

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• No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

  Honore de Balzac

  Dog, Art, Wind

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• Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste
  Stream down the snows, till the air is white,
  As, myriads by myriads madly chased,
  They fling themselves from their shadowy height.
  The fair, frail creatures of middle sky,
  What speed they make, with their grave so nigh;
  Flake after flake,
  To lie in the dark and silent lake!

  William C. Bryant

  Lying, Dark, Lakes

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• Reckless haste makes poor speed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Haste, Reckless, Poor

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• Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to the city rhythm whether or not it's our own. In time we even grow hard of hearing to the rest of the world. Like a violinist stuck next to the timpani, we may lose the ability to hear our own instrument.

  Ellen Goodman

  Stress, Cities, Knowing

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.

  Ellen Goodman

  News, Amphetamines, World

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• The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Suicide, Two, Years

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.32, Bantam

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• Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Mean, Race, Rats

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• It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

  Agnes Repplier

  Education, Brother, Children

  Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”

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• The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, Branches, Bureaucracy

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.13, Routledge

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• it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you at the touch of your toe, and speed lifting you off the ice far from all things that can hold you down.

  Sonja Henie

  Sports, Running, Ice

  Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”

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• California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Taken, California, Bed

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)”, p.2202, Delphi Classics

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• You gotta be the right size, height, speed - all those are a big factor in what position you play. If you love the game, play the position you love. Some positions get paid more, but at the end of the day you gotta play the game you love.

  LeSean McCoy

  Games, Play, The End Of The Day

  "Interview: LeSean McCoy Talks Chip Kelly, Kobe Bryant, & Nick Foles' Rap Knowledge". Interview with Maurice Peebles, www.complex.com. September 5, 2014.

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• I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Ends, Results

  "INTERVIEW: Author Patrick Rothfuss on his Worldbuilders Charity, Writing, Reading and Giving". Interview with Matthew Jackson, nerdbastards.com. December 9, 2013.

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• Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in fact, under urban conditions, you don't need. These high speeds generate enormous safety requirements and so on and so forth. Now you can incrementally tweak the automobile. You can make the power train more efficient and you can enhance safety and all of these sorts of things that are very worthwhile.

  William J. Mitchell

  Safety, Needs, Sitting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over.

  Bill Russell

  Regret, Mean, Starting Over

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.

  Aaron Belz

  Silly, Watches, Labels

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