Speed Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• With my size and speed, my ability to make moves and great vision, I'm sometimes feel like it's an unfair advantage over the defense.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Moving, Nfl, Vision

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• I think the preseason helps a lot, just to feel a little bit about the speed of the game.

  Andrew Luck

  Thinking, Games, Nfl

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• I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.

  Adrian Peterson

  Running, Nfl

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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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• If you're waiting with God, waiting is okay. If you're always waiting on God, you'll be frustrated. God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.

  Louie Giglio

  Waiting, Frustrated, Want

  "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.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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• I have to use my strengths, which [are] my speed, my quickness and my movements. If I do that, I really believe that I will come out on top.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Believe, Use, Movement

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. November 13, 2009.

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• Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

  Carrie Fisher

  Waiting, Looks, Done

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• O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way! What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Spring, Lying, Clouds

  Kenneth Grahame, Seth Lerer (2009). “The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Finals, Desperation

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• The Roman form of serenade is to race a motorcycle motor under the girl's window, but mufflers are not common in any situation; the only things as dearly loved as a good noise are breakneck speed and eye-splitting lights, preferably neon - all expressions of well-being, like a huge belly-laugh.

  Eleanor Clark

  Girl, Eye, Expression

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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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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• I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.

  Catherine Ndereba

  Country, Running, Distance

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• I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.

  Alice Childress

  Cancer, Believe, Racism

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• Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a stone; a candid hand; a bent knee which contains all the speed of the foot race; a torso which has no face to prevent us from loving it.

  Stephanie Crayencour

  Art, Race, Hands

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• Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

  Alexis De Veaux

  Music, Air, Light

  Alexis De Veaux (1980). “Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

  Ethel M. Dell

  Wheels, Enough, Bigs

  Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.73, tredition

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• what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Reading, Love Is, Eggs

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2011). “Leaving Brooklyn”, p.26, Hawthorne Books

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• Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust.

  Stephen Covey

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't let high-speed completely replace high-touch. Your customers may appreciate both.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Appreciate, May

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• Skill development, speed and scale are the 3 important aspects that are relevant to the present-day growth and development module.

  Narendra Modi

  Skills, Growth, Democracy

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• Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Home, Journey

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

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• I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.

  Noel Coward

  Writing, Boredom, High Speed

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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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