Speed Quotes - Page 34

• Time is the speed at which the past decays.

  David Mitchell

  Past, Decay

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.235, Random House

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• When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her hooves pound a four-time rhythm instead of a three. But when Corr moves into a gallop, it's as if it's a gait that's just been invented, something so much faster than all the others that it should be called something else...Each stride feels like it takes us a mile. We'll run out of island before he runs out of speed. We're giants, on his back.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Running, Moving, Islands

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• I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a book, off in its own world. He wanted a son who did what he had done; swam and boxed and played rugby, and drove cars at speed with abandon and joy, but that was not what he wound up with.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Disappointment, Father

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• and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the way I love my favorite color, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I'd feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way that I've never felt needed to be said.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Song, Love You, Past

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Jun 02, 2013

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• I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that we were consistently exceeding the speed limit. Discordant sound, wind, risk of death—I tried to assume the mental state that I used at the dentist.

  Graeme Simsion

  Wind, Risk, Sound

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Purpose, Causes

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.130

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• Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless.
  He speeds; we pass away!

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Time, Men, Heaven

  Alphonse de Lamartine, “The Lake”

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• While we are postponing, life speeds by.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
  Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
  In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd,
  Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
  And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
  The speed that spins the future and the past:
  And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
  Awful eternity shall reign alone.

  Petrarch

  Time, Pain, Fate

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.440, Delphi Classics

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• Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Business, Creativity, Imagination

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• The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

  John P. Kotter

  Change, Competition, Next

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• Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

  William James

  Funny, Dance, Laughter

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• I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to move his arms and legs, to turn his head. I will give him steadiness, brilliancy and speed; but I cannot endow him with that fire and intelligence, those graces and that expression of feeling which is the soul of true pantomime.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Dance, Moving, Men

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• It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a speed course. They demand your attention and require you to be present. They are coming...they are here..... and then they are gone. It's how life comes. Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Graduation, Sweet, Past

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• As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.

  Alan Alda

  Graduation, Becoming

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• According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

  George Saunders

  Graduation, Becoming, Life Is

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.52, A&C Black

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• If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Mountain, Slow Down

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED

  William Rathbone Greg

  Time, Doubt, Half

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• There is a lot of relief for daters who are serious about wanting to be in a relationship. This comes in the form of what appears to be dramatic changes like speed dating and Internet dating.

  April Masini

  Single, Dating, Relief

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• True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
  Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, True Friend, Funny Friend

  Translation of the Odyssey, bk. 15, l. 83 (1725 - 1756)

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• A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

  David Ogilvy

  Teamwork, Baseball, Running

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• Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

  Simon Newcomb

  Airplane, Bird, Natural

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• It's not just straight-line speed. He's got the agility and the quickness to go with it. His vision on the field is phenomenal. It just opens the playbook so much as a coach that I'm really looking forward to it.

  LeBron James

  Vision, Agility, Lines

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• Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers - and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Technology, Space, People

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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• Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed

  Russel Honore

  Teamwork, Team Building, Culture

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