Faster Quotes - Page 38

• A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.

  Ilana Mercer

  Team, Silly, Hair

  "Hollywood: The No-Good, The Bad And The Beastly". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. March 07, 2014.

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• In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.

  Daniel Crevier

  Mind, Computer, Logical

  Daniel Crevier (1993). “AI: the tumultuous history of the search for artificial intelligence”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The faster you go, the idler you get.

  Ferreira Gullar

  Idlers

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• The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers; but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore, the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than they are received, it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase.

  Joseph Hall

  Eye, Mind, Needs

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• ...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Simple

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• Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, Littles, Cheaper

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.85, Penguin

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• The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.

  Joel Salatin

  Roots, Oxygen, Ecosystems

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• Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Topics, Conversation, Human Condition

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• She hasn't run faster than herself before

  Zola Budd

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry. Not for nothing did Forrest say the essence of strategy was to git thar fust with the most men.

  Bruce Catton

  Horse, War, Men

  Bruce Catton, James M. McPherson (2014). “American Heritage History of the Civil War”, p.105, New Word City

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• It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have faster and handier ships than ours, and many more long-range guns, and who know their advantage just as well as we do, will never close with us at all, but stand aloof and knock us to pieces with their culverins, without our being able to do them any serious hurt. So we are sailing against England in the confident hope of a miracle.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Hurt, Fighting, Gun

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• It has changed, quite a lot. It is very different now, there are quicker men, they are taller, stronger, have great stamina. The balls have also become faster. Tennis has now become a power sport. There is more depth in the game, as well, there are many more players than there used to be. The entire character of the game has changed.

  Bjorn Borg

  Sports, Character, Player

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• The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Pie, Growth

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• Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Europe, Lasts, Asia

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• I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Use

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• The person in the business suit who works on Wall Street, who does their work perfectly, is probably evolving a lot faster, if they also meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wall, Buddhism, Doe

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• The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

  Jared Diamond

  Loss, Literature, Individual

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• In that he didn't die at the finish line, he could have run faster

  Tim Noakes

  Running, Lines, Finish Line

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• He seems faster too me. He could get seven to 10 yards in a pretty comfortable fashion. I went up to our defense and said `Hey guys, that guy is pretty fast.'

  Les Miles

  Fashion, Lsu, Guy

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• Power is confidence. The confidence to deliver your answer when you're in a board meeting is what will allow you to move up faster. The confidence to be yourself in front of people creates a separation.

  Curtis Jackson

  Being Yourself, Moving, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I was blessed with speed and a good punch. Everybody thinks I'm the hardest puncher ever. But I just think I was really fast, and my punches got to the target faster. That's what made my knockouts always seem spectacular.

  Mike Tyson

  Blessed, Thinking, Target

  Inerview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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• I still try to do what I've always said I would do, which is say yes to the things that make my heart beat faster, particularly if there's something scary about it.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Heart, Scary, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Obviously it's easier to grow faster when you are a less developed country than when you are where the U.S. is.

  Chris Hayes

  Country, Easier, Grows

  "The age of illusion". Interview with Jake Blumgart, www.origin.salon.com. June 30, 2012.

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• How you wake up each day and your morning routine (or lack thereof) dramatically affects your levels of success in every single area of your life. Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days - which inevitably create a successful life - in the same way that unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre mornings generate unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre days, and ultimately a mediocre quality of life. By simply changing the way you wake up in the morning, you can transform any area of your life, faster than you ever thought possible.

  Hal Elrod

  Morning, Successful, Quality

  "The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM". Book by Hal Elrod, December 7, 2012.

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• Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.

  Clara Mamet

  Timing, Brooks, Dialogue

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