Speed Quotes - Page 16

• Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light.

  Tom Hanks

  Sorry, Believe, Mean

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• I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

  Jim Harrison

  People, Boredom, Watches

  Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.

  Stephen Covey

  Effectiveness, Perspective, Empowerment

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• The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth.

  Adrian Slywotzky

  Basketball, Football, Games

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• I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Challenges, Trying, Sound

  "Red Bull Stratos: Felix Baumgartner interview". Red Bull Interview, www.redbull.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

  John Naisbitt

  Expectations, Revolutionary, Higher

  John Naisbitt (2006). “Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future”, HarperBusiness

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• The best way to apologize is to let the customer vent first. Don't interrupt, just take notes and make empathetic noises. You can even tell the customer that it makes you mad too. Second, ask the customer what their speed of need is. Tell them what they ant to hear. That you apologize, that you understand how they feel, that you are meeting with the appropriate people to get a resolve, and that it will be done in 24-hours.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  People, Mad, Needs

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• Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  People, Half Time, Four

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• I use to think all road racers were nuts. You know racing around a track at that speed.

  Mick Doohan

  Thinking, Nuts, Track

  "Faster". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.

  Valentino Rossi

  Exciting, Dangerous

  "Faster". Documentary, www.imdb.com. March 7, 2004.

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• Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now.

  Esther Hicks

  Want, Ready, Right Now

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• Nothing is the speed limit of thought.

  Henri Michaux

  Limits, Speed Limits

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• I watch the ball fiercely to see its height and speed off my opponent's racket so I can decide how I want to hit it.

  Sloane Stephens

  Watches, Balls, Opponents

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• I wasn't a keen taker of speed because I didn't like the comedown from it.

  Jonathan Meades

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

  Joe Bradley

  Moving, Wrapping Up, Painting

  Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• If I talk about the bad old days of crystal meth for too long, I start getting like, "Oh...speed...that was delicious..." But in general, I don't so much. Or wait - maybe the recklessness just occurs in a different sphere so it doesn't look like bottoming out. But really - isn't trying to have a baby sort of a reckless thing to do?

  Michelle Tea

  Baby, Long, Waiting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious thing is that large-scale project financing is virtually frozen, so a lot of renewable energy projects are on hold. If the system doesn't get unclogged before the developers run out of cash, they will be cancelled. Money matters, and we are racing against time.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Smart, Obvious Things

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• Build high-speed, electrified trains over the most-traveled corridors. It'sreally hard to power carbon-free airplanes, but electrified trains are much easier. We'll be a half century behind the Japanese, but better late than never.

  Denis Hayes

  Airplane, Half, Easier

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that more is better. This is very materialistic, we have to realize that it is the quality of life, quality of relationships, quality of food, medicine, education and everything else which matters.

  Satish Kumar

  Believe, Civilization, Medicine

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• Milton on speed. I am going to need about a decade to think about that. That delay in syntax, the putting off of the click of the sentence into itself, is something that has always intrigued me. I love the emotional effect of it, and never want it to be merely a gesture. Sometimes I try it and it doesn't work, so I have to put the poem aside, and try again, more simply and more strange.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Emotional, Thinking, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into the ecosystems around us, but without sacrificing all the niceties of civilization like good restaurants, concert halls, and high-speed Internet access. I'm saying that partly tongue-in-cheek, but I'm also deadly serious. The future of technology is sustainable ecology.

  Annalee Newitz

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Technology

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds up the process that used to take generations. Preventing people from getting things like golden rice or disease-resistant cassava destroys human life, and does not spare the environment in any way.

  Annalee Newitz

  Engineering, Years, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.

  L. Todd Rose

  Ideas, Tests, Timing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed.

  Leigh Newman

  Writing, Thinking, Issues

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The question is not about whether it will work or not. It's how quickly we can pull it off. Structural change will happen. When economies grow, there comes a time when you cannot rely on investment alone. We had that. The return on investment is becoming less and less. So we have to change. The old model doesn't work anymore. It's a question of speed.

  Zhang Xin

  Return, Becoming, Investment

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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