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• I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.

  Andy Summers

  Thinking, People, Records

  Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Focus, World, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

  Jean Cocteau

  Moving, Silence, Hmmm

  Jean Cocteau (1972). “Three screenplays: L'Eternel retour, Orphée, La Belle et la bête”

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• The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

  William Glasser

  Matter, Students, Teach

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• We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Jobs, People, Goal

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• If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Writing, Doctors

  Life (1984)

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• Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Talking, Speaking Up

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

  Christopher McDougall

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.13, Profile Books

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• I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

  A. J. Liebling

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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• Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Moving, Events, Ability

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• General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

  Mason Cooley

  Running, Horse, Example

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• Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Science, Light

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.622, Pan Macmillan

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• A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

  William Bernbach

  People, Design, Campaigns

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• I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

  Ashley Judd

  Thinking, Giving, Lazy

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• Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

  Robert Caro

  New York, Cities, Ballet

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• You cannot run faster than a bullet.

  Idi Amin

  Running, Military, Evil

  Christopher L. Moody, Idi Amin (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Idi Amin”

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• Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

  Johan Cruijff

  Motivational, Soccer, Running

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• When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Long, Balls

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• I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

  Ayrton Senna

  Team, Two, Car

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• Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wrestling

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• Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

  Mother Teresa

  Travel, Memorable, Angel

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• It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humorous, Science

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Cities, Paris

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• What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Effort, Bird

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• What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.

  Mae Jemison

  Goal, Mind, Littles

  "Mae Jemison looks to the future of space travel". Interview with Linda Lorelle, www.chron.com. September 11, 2012.

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