Pace Quotes - Page 33

• Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Prayer, Moving

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• When I think of the pace that I drove my first race, everything was happening a million miles an hour. Now when I get in the car everything happens so much slower.

  Dan Wheldon

  Thinking, Race, Car

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• I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate.

  Dizzy Dean

  Boys, Looks, Littles

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• Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.315

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• Because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Time Passes, Determine

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace

  Gary Lineker

  Commitment, Ageing, Footballer

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• Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

  Stewart Brand

  Civilization, Environmental, Attention

  Stewart Brand (1999). “The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility”, p.141, Basic Books

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• In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Couple, Order

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• The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Suicide, Dream, America

  Dinesh D'Souza (2014). “America: Imagine a World without Her”, p.6, Regnery Publishing

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• The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Yield, Attention

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2006). “It Takes a Village”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better.... Forget the competition and go at your own pace. Your only contest is with yourself.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Competition, Trying

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• The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.

  Dean Rusk

  Moving, Sight, Events

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• One may come armoured, Invinsible. His will immobile meets the mobile hour. The world blows cannot bend this Victor Head. Calm and sure are his steps in the growing night. The goal recedes, he hurries not his pace. He asks from no help from the inferior Gods. His eyes are fixed on the immutable aim.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Eye, Night, Blow

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• The issue here is this, that the Government's argument at the present moment is the argument that now the war is over, terrorism is defeated, we have to focus on economic development which in the north and east particular, being the areas where the war was fought, development has to proceed at a pace. That people from those parts of the country are leaving seems to suggest a lack of confidence and certainty in the trajectory of this kind of economic development.

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

  Country, War, Government

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• In my family, there were Kei and Minoru and then there were the rest. Everyone in my family is very opinionated and everyone tried to join the debate. But by the time my turn came, there was nothing left to say. I couldn't keep pace, so I looked to do my own things.

  Akira Mori

  Family, Debate, Turns

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• It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mind, Ends, Pace Of Life

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• I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Men, Boxing

  Twitter post from May 25, 2012

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• Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is the ability to take the reader on a journey, with all the changes of terrain, speed and mood that a long journey involves. Again, I find that looking at films can help. Most novels will want to move close, linger, move back, move on, in pretty cinematic ways.

  Rose Tremain

  Moving, Writing, Journey

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• I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Different, Legs, Tongue

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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