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• Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1.

  Trevor Hoffman

  Worry, Balls, Ratios

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• The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are in the stadium, you feel them and you see the velocity of the players.

  Joe Namath

  Football, Player, Games

  Interview with Beverly Keel, americanprofile.com. January 23, 2005.

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• The tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not traveling at the same speed you are. And you actually start to feel disturbed by people who have a sense of restfulness to their existence.

  David Whyte

  People, Tragedy, Answers

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• It (the slider) just rolls off of your index finger and begins it's spin which will take it down and across the plate (hopefully). Just remember not to twist your elbow or wrist. It should be thrown, with the wrist and grip set, just like your fastball, slightly off center - with the same velocity and intensity.

  Steve Carlton

  Elbows, Down And, Twists

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• My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

  Albert Einstein

  Sailing, Energy, Boat

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• We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.

  Sam Keen

  Running, Reflection, Suffering

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• When you lose velocity off of your fastball, one thing that suffers is your off-speed pitches - the action on your off-speed pitches. Once you lose arm speed, it takes away rotation from your off-speed pitches. The rotation is what gives them the sharpness and the nastiness.

  Tim Hudson

  Giving, Suffering, Nastiness

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• The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Government, Decision, Months

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• The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of light. It is a sacred cow within a sacred cow, and it is just about the Absolutest Absolute in the history of human thought.

  Anthony Standen

  Science, Light, Criticism

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• The first mistake is believing that transformational initiatives can be accomplished through normal channels and means. This cannot be done because there are too many conflicting interests that are competing to impede. The second is mistaking incubation for transformation and concluding that failure to achieve escape velocity is due to lack of innovation. It never is. It is always do to lack of leadership focus and, especially, fortitude.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Mistake, Believe, Mean

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Squares, Energy, Needs

  "Expert testimony on the space age". Q&A with Alan Boyle, www.nbcnews.com. July 19, 2004.

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• People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Past, Years, People

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.3

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• I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I’ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I’ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Ignorance, Complicated World, Students

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• How are you managing the velocity of change?

  Jim Blasingame

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• I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can't be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good?

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Girl, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is again reduced to statics. Although it is is very much in order that in gradual training of science and in the instruction of the individual the easier precedes the more difficult, the simple precedes the more complicated, the special precedes the general, yet the min, once it has arrived at the higher standpoint, demands the reverse process whereby all statics appears only as a very special case of mechanics.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Science, Simple, Order

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• From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.

  Albert Einstein

  Zero, Science, Molecules

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• More and more, I am pulled reluctantly towards a strong horizontal current, which is a place where time is moving at such high velocity, that even our breath is forced to accelerate just in order for us humans to survive. And I have always believed, that it is in our slow exhalation, where the sense of this deep spiritual energy resides. In a world moving so fast, with the growth of technology and information, I am somehow inclined to move against this current, in search of what it might mean to be connected not just spiritually, but also vertically.

  Akram Khan

  Dance, Spiritual, Time

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• The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass.

  Peter Higgs

  Thinking, Glasses, Light

  "Meet Peter Higgs". CERN Video, July 2004.

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• If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.

  Bill Gates

  Change, Quality, Ifs

  "Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy". Book by Bill Gates, 1999.

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• People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

  Elon Musk

  Mistake, Technology, People

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• The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting, I push myself so I am at the edge of discomfort...Later, it will be time for consideration and reconsideration, slow, careful revision and editing. But on the first draft I have to achieve velocity, just as you do if you want the bike to balance.

  Donald Murray

  Believe, Writing, Editing

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• Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these grains also move with great velocities, they act at a distance one upon another, but this action is so slight at great distances that their trajectories are rectilineal; nevertheless, from time to time, two of them may come near enough together to be deviated from their course, like a comet that passed too close to Jupiter. In a word, in the eyes of a giant, to whom our Suns were what our atoms are to us, the Milky Way would only look like a bubble of gas.

  Henri Poincare

  Stars, Distance, Moving

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.905, Modern Library

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• Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come.

  Philip K. Dick

  Stars, San Francisco, Car

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.227, Ballantine Books

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• If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.

  George Gamow

  Running, Distance, Science

  George Gamow (2012). “The Creation of the Universe”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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