Faster Quotes - Page 4

• You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

  Charles Kettering

  Time, Science, Progress

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• Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

  Vernor Vinge

  Animal, World, Problem

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• Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.

  Dan Brown

  War, Cripples

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Priorities, Needs, Done

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• If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

  Arturo Toscanini

  Music, Play, Want

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• If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

  Terry Pratchett

  I Hate You, Science, Dark

  "Criminal Minds: Conflicted". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

  Evan Esar

  Anger, Feelings, Mind

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• If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

  Gustav Mahler

  Writing, Thinking, Boring

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• Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

  Alan Dundes

  Inspirational, Funny, Christmas

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• I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

  Ed Koch

  Thinking, Six Months, Said

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• People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

  Adam Osborne

  Mistake, Technology, Thinking

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• You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Moving

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• I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25

  Bobby Darin

  Want, Legends, Made

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• Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.

  Esther Williams

  Husband, Drinking, Gambling

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• What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

  Raymond Williams

  Running, Heart, Break

  Raymond Williams (1985). “Loyalties”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Moving, People, Priorities

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• I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

  Le Corbusier

  Lying, Talking, Drawing

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• Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

  Bill Murray

  Downsizing, Ifs

  Interview with Jessica Lee Jernigan, jessicaleejernigan.typepad.com. August 9, 2004.

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• Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Sports, Running, Race

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• God, life changes faster than you think.

  Amy Tan

  Life, Thinking, Inspire

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

  Ovid

  Leadership, Running, Encouragement

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• The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.

  Brian Tracy

  Positive Thinking, Goal, Achieve

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 16, 2014

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• Fear is dangerous. It sparks violence much faster than anger.

  Veronica Rossi

  Sparks, Violence, Dangerous

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• There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.

  Kin Hubbard

  Doctors, Modern Life, Poor

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