Speed Quotes - Page 8

• It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pursued

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Intelligence, Tests, Sake

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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• Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

  Alexis De Veaux

  Music, Air, Light

  Alexis De Veaux (1980). “Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

  Ethel M. Dell

  Wheels, Enough, Bigs

  Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell (2012). “The Keeper of the Door”, p.73, tredition

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• The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of collaboration with another creature and of controlling it in order to improve the collaboration, the joy of fussing over it - of loving it - these, from the age of about eight to sixteen were the most completely realised delights of my life.

  Diana Athill

  Horse, Eight, Order

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• what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Reading, Love Is, Eggs

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2011). “Leaving Brooklyn”, p.26, Hawthorne Books

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• Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust.

  Stephen Covey

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• I was just learning to be by myself. He seemed to really see me, see through the bullshit...He was so handsome, and he could dance. I thought, 'He won't be interested in me; I'm not a contender. He was so cool, so funny - I was such a fan of his and had always fancied his speed and his intelligence. I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough or his type.'

  Olivia Wilde

  Beautiful, Bullshit, Fans

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• Occasionally problems will occur. When it happens to your customers, fix the problem fast. Make it your speed and generosity that gets remembered, not the problem.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Generosity, Problem

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• Don't let high-speed completely replace high-touch. Your customers may appreciate both.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Appreciate, May

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• Skill development, speed and scale are the 3 important aspects that are relevant to the present-day growth and development module.

  Narendra Modi

  Skills, Growth, Democracy

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• The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.

  Anthony Albanese

  Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

  Paul Watson

  Sharks, Years, Sea

  "Sea Shepherd: How We Sank the Japanese Whaling Fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.

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• The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

  Jules Verne

  Speech, Cold, Deprived

  Jules Verne (1978). “The best of Jules Verne: three complete, illustrated novels, with original illustrations”

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• As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Mother, Children, Kissing

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.181, Macmillan

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• I like the marathon because it's one race where you can find out who's really the toughest. On the track, sometimes a guy can just pull away, and you want to stay with him but you don't have the leg speed. The marathon is slow enough that anyone can stay with you if he wants, if he has the will. The marathon is ultimately a test of will.

  Alberto Salazar

  Race, Track, Guy

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• An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

  Michael Owen

  Might, Weapons, Emotion

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• I have two speeds, nothing and full pelt.

  Andre Rieu

  Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My speed is a gift from God, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, it all comes from him.

  Allyson Felix

  Running, Glory, Gift From God

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• Jimmy Carter, who embraced all manner of schemes to make America a second or third-rate country, came down so squarely in favor of the double nickel [the 55 mph National Speed Limit]...This is the same Jimmy Carter whose limosine with him in it, just a little later in his presidency, was timed at an average of 72 mph for the 21.5 mile trip from Detroit Metro to the Detroit Plaza Hotel. He didn't want to be late for a campaign appearance.

  Patrick Bedard

  Country, America, Mph

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• Death is a large form of entertainment, probably the largest. Watching death in different ways is entertaining for us, whether it's a high-speed chase and a guy grabs a helicopter and flies away. We know the reality of it is that he wouldn't be physically able to hold onto that helicopter and fall to his death. But it's entertaining to watch.

  Curtis Jackson

  Fall, Reality, Guy

  Source: movieweb.com

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• When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.

  Salman Rushdie

  Moving, Writing, Emotional

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• There are millions of people out there who would love to become astronauts, who'd love to go to space - they'd love to look back at this wonderful world from space. That will be the engine that will enable us then to develop spaceships to transport people around the world at tremendous speeds in an environmentally friendly way.

  Richard Branson

  Space, People, Friendly

  "Richard Branson Responds To Elon Musk's Criticism; 'We're About To Prove Him Wrong'". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2014.

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• There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever... One exists in eternity, one has become eternal... One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Light, Views

  "New Maps of Hyperspace". Terence McKenna's speech at the Berkeley Institute for the Study of Consciousness (1984) as quoted in "Magical Blend Magazine", Issue #22, April 1989.

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• America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.

  Greg Abbott

  America, Community, Ready

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