Speed Quotes - Page 24

• I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.

  Tony Dungy

  Team, Practice, Games

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• One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.

  Roger Ebert

  Book, Character, Superhero

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

  Umberto Eco

  Car, Grandfather, Crash

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• The faster you go, the shorter you are.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• Power and speed be hands and feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Gnarly, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'

  Julian Fellowes

  Thinking, Years, Watches

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• Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday’s news.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Smart, Yesterday, Phones

  "Reimagining the Story of Newsies" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2012.

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• If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

  Glenn Ford

  Trying, Ifs

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• It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.

  Bruce Forsyth

  School, Way, Enough

  "Didn't he do well". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2007.

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• Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

  Robert Frost

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.

  John Frusciante

  Fall, Thinking, People

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• I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Europe, Growth, Fascination

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• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Stamina, Loses

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• CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

  Al Gore

  Past, Civilization, Done

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• The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect.

  Brian Greene

  Light, Hands, Talking

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• I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Hockey

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• You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.

  Robert Griffin III

  Determination, Dad, School

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• Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

  Larry Hagman

  Marijuana, Smoking, Wells

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• I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

  Amber Heard

  Limits, Tickets, Speed Limits

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• When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

  Russel Honore

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• I go through phases where I buy only Speed Stick and Axe, and Noxzema shaving cream.

  Marc Jacobs

  Shaving Cream, Phases, Sticks

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• Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

  LeBron James

  Get Up, Court, Aggressiveness

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• What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

  St. Jerome

  Brain, Way, Purses

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• Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

  Betsey Johnson

  Real, Garbage, Blinders

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