Speeding Up Quotes

• It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

  J. K. Rowling

  Time, Giving, Potters

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• I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• Most of my work involves slowing down rather than speeding up. I prefer to look at prints than scans, and I prefer to look at original silver prints rather than digital prints. I prefer to look at fewer images, but spend time with those individual images.

  Michael Kenna

  Looks, Digital, Silver

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Space, Doe, Photograph

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• We are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to dwarf you. It tells you that the sun will not fluxuate for another billion years, that species come and go, and, in other words, on a temporal scale you don't matter. And that now doesn't matter. But when you look at the release of energy, the asymptotic speeding up of processes, we tend to be xenophobically oriented toward the human.

  Terence McKenna

  Humble, Dwarves, Years

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• At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

  Summer Sanders

  Hurt, May, Marathon

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• Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight.

  Dean Cavanagh

  Corruption, Relation, Speeding

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• The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts. Personally I am beginning to think there is more danger in lagging than in speeding up cultural change to keep pace with mechanical change.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Change, Thinking, Long

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• Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Meditation

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• We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady - instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Shoes, Pace

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• We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

  Paul Hawken

  Life, Down And, Slow Down

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• In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Growing Up, Life Changing

  MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

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• As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Two, Creating, Goal

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Movie, Creativity, Media

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up, however much our lifestyles and technologies have accelerated the rate at which we attempt to do things. It’s more of a diminishment of anything that isn’t happening right now—and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Real, Technology, Our Society

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• Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

  Pieter Geyl

  War, History, Process

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• Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

  Havelock Ellis

  Population, Tasks, Decrease

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.126, Elsevier

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