Pace Quotes - Page 23

• If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Golf, Night, Play

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• I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Neutrality, Way

  "Defining Internet "freedom": Ars interviews Senator Al Franken". Interview with Nate Anderson, arstechnica.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Moving, Political

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• Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Moving, Garden, Trying

  "The joy of simply faffing around" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2008.

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• I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling is almost completely free. There is no longer any need for the gym as you get fit by cycling. And you can go at your own pace.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Cycling, Needs, Cost

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

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• I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.

  Naveen Jain

  Believe, Thinking, Impact

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• I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Justice, Church

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• Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Technology, Digital Revolution, Individual

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• I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.

  Marissa Mayer

  Vacation, Long, Four

  "How I Work". Interview with David Kirkpatrick, money.cnn.com. 2006.

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• I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.

  Ted Nugent

  Blow, Guitar, Play

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• From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

  Carre Otis

  School, Kids, Clear

  Carre Otis, Hugo Schwyzer (2011). “Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• ... I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old New Orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces

  John Kennedy Toole

  Dog, New Orleans, Golden Days

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.349, LSU Press

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• Erak. The one they call the Oberjarl," the Arridi answered him. Impulsively, Axl took a pace forward, raising his ax threateningly. You'll have to go through the rest of us to take him!" he shouted defiantly. Well done, Axl," he said. "You've just told them I'm here.

  John Flanagan

  Done, Said, Wells

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• A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out of energy (or in the case of the novelist-- ideas) because they have so far to run. To mix the metaphor, writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Running, Writing, Ideas

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• Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

  Napoleon Hill

  Real, Age, Way

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.136, Penguin

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• Gryffindor leads by eighty points to zero, and look at that Firebolt go! Potter’s really putting it through its paces now, see it turn — Chang’s Comet is just no match for it, the Firebolt’s precision-balance is really noticeable in these long —” “JORDAN! ARE YOU BEING PAID TO ADVERTISE FIREBOLTS? GET ON WITH THE COMMENTARY!

  J. K. Rowling

  Zero, Long, Balance

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• But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Time, Art, Past

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on

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• Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, You Like It, Eternity

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1826). “Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.165

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• Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with many landmarks, a life which is much subdivided when those subdivisions are not of the same kind, and when new and diverse interests, impressions, and labours follow each other in swift and distinct successions, seems the most long.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Happiness, Men, Long

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”

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• I struggled to stay on the pace there in the back half. But, at the end of the day I wanted to win this race. The Millrose is a prestigious event and it's definitely something I wanted to do in my career.

  Kim Conley

  Athlete, Winning, Race

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• Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Silence, Spinning

  John Milton, John Richardson Major (1853). “Milton's Paradise Lost, with notes, critical and explanatory, original and selected, by J. R. Major”, p.373

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Summer, Spring

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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• All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

  Ken Venturi

  Golf, Clock, Function

  Ken Venturi, Al Barkow (1983). “The Venturi System: With Special Material on Shotmaking for the Advanced Golfer”, Atheneum Books

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• Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the nearer thou comest to the end of thy days, the nearer thou mayest be to the end of thy hopes, the salvation of thy soul.

  Thomas Adams

  Christian, Horse, Home

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• Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

  Jon Kyl

  Technology, Effort, March

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