Speed Quotes - Page 29

• Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of our souls and leaves Jesus as a diminishing speck in the rearview mirror.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Mirrors, Voice

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Eye, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his body, forever required to think about his blisters, his exhaustion; when he runs he feels his weight, his age, more conscious than ever of himself and of his time of life. This all changes when man delegates the faculty of speed to a machine: from then on, his own body is outside the process, and he gives over to a speed that is noncorporeal, nonmaterial, pure speed, speed itself, ecstasy speed.

  Milan Kundera

  Running, Men, Thinking

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• I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, God, Responsibility

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.94, Modern Library

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• There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery

  Neal Stephenson

  Four, Software, Delivery

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.2, Spectra

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• This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

  Albert Einstein

  Hate, Military, Civilization

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.10, Broadway Books

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• All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void.

  William Gibson

  Taken, Sleep, Cutting

  William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.9, Penguin

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• Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. This is the critical lesson of improve, too, and it is also a key to understanding a puzzle of Millennium Challenge: spontaneity isn't random.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Basketball, Running, Practice

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, books.google.ru. April 3, 2007.

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• Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.

  David Baldacci

  Men, Age, Who Cares

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Whole Truth”, p.213, Pan Macmillan

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• Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Faith, Christian, Dark

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.167, A&C Black

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• Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Years, People, Car

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• It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wise, Writing, Thinking

  "How to be Hopeful". Commencement Address by Barbara Kingsolver, today.duke.edu. 2008.

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• After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through. ***TWO QUESTIONS*** Would the gates shut behind her? Or would they have the goodwill to let her back out? As Liesel would discover, a good thief requires many things. Stealth. Nerve. Speed. More important than any of those things, however, was one final requirement. Luck. Actually. Forget the ten minutes. The gates open now.

  Markus Zusak

  Two, Luck, Important

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• And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  God, Spiritual, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls.

  Booth Tarkington

  Spiritual, Men, Civilization

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.161, Booklassic

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• The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Degrees, Forget

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• Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Book, Fire, Race

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.250, Random House

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• The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

  Robert Frost

  Moving, Wind, Sky

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.

  James Ellroy

  Past, Self, Missing

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• If wearing this rag will in any way speed the process of gathering my furture soldiers, then I will waer it. But if it doesn't..." Vollrath bowed. "I will subject myself to your temper." You'll have no choice.

  Frank Beddor

  Choices, Soldier, Way

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• He looked at the box with interest. 'Well, well. Five speeds. Heat and massage. Deep, penetrating action. Sure this isn't yours?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Massage, Action, Heat

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.101, Hachette UK

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• Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

  George Monbiot

  Nature, Progress, Conditions

  " After this 60-year feeding frenzy, Earth itself has become disposable" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2010.

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• If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

  Deb Caletti

  Get Well, Book, Time Heals

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

  Ayn Rand

  Giving, Steps, Form

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.13, Hamilton Books

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• Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.

  Julia Child

  Hands, Boss, Care

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