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Quotes About Speed

Révolution industrielle, la première révolution capable de faire progresser le monde à la vitesse fantastique de la machine.
~ Fernand Braudel
Questions like "Where am I headed?" and "Is this the place I want to be headed?" aren't central in your consciousness. Where are you headed, then? The answer is simple: you're headed where you're headed, as fast as you can get there.
~ Fernando Flores
He aquí proyectada en ralenti, para ver mejor, la vertiginosa sucesión de los hechos, que filmaron desde la corte celestial:
~ Fernando Vallejo
la muerte siempre viaja más rápido que la información.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Quittant Neuilly pour Paris XVIe, nous sommes entrés dans une vitesse sans mémoire, la rapidité des gens qui n'ont plus de temps à perdre, ou plutôt : nous inventions une nouvelle bourgeoisie qui n'avait plus le luxe de s'intéresser au temps perdu.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Without Time's swiftness, which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
~ blake william vi
The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
~ Bob Hope
Your body is molecular structure your body is a massive energy at a very high speed of vibration.
~ Bob Proctor
Dowd alluded to another factor necessary to understand the digital age: the technology that allows news to travel at warp speed also gives innovators the freedom and the ability to move quickly and make change to embrace new models in order to find an audience. That means we are only at the beginning. We should expect even more change, not less.
~ Bob Schieffer
Metal is starter-pack rock. It works as both a gateway to other forms of modern pop, via volume, speed, and power, and as a model of pure escapism—the roar of the fairground, the cheap thrills of the slasher movie, sex, and horror. Besides,
~ Bob Stanley
Movement" means great footwork coupled with quick speed, balance, dexterity
~ Brad Gilbert
Technology innovation is not going to slow down. The work to manage it needs to speed up
~ Brad Smith
Prime would eventually justify its existence. The service turned customers into Amazon addicts who gorged on the almost instant gratification of having purchases reliably appear two days after they ordered them. Signing up for Amazon Prime, Jason Kilar said at the time, "was like going from a dial-up to a broadband Internet connection.
~ Brad Stone
They said if he'd had two good arms he'd have made it, he was moving that fast. Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn't have to shoot him that much.
~ Harper Lee
Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one's a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps politeness.
~ Haruki Murakami
Wherever the intention of each might lie, we are together being carried along at the same speed down the same river of time.
~ Haruki Murakami
Time goes by so damn fast.
~ Haruki Murakami
Never in history has the human brain been asked to track so many data points. Everywhere, people rely on their cell phones, e-mail, and digital assistants in the race to gather and transmit data, plans, and ideas faster and faster. One could argue that the chief value of the modern era is speed, which the novelist Milan Kundera described as "the form of ecstasy that technology has bestowed upon modern man.
~ Harvard Business School Press
Durch die Eisenbahn wird Raum getötet, und es bleibt nur noch die Zeit übrig.
~ Heinrich Heine
The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering conventions. The old ways of painting, writing, sculpting, and composing no longer seemed adequate to capture the world.
~ Margaret MacMillan
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
~ Terry Pratchett
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
~ Adam Osborne
Direction is more important than speed. You can go fast in the wrong direction.
~ Redfoo
If somebody is going in the wrong direction, behavioral coaching just helps them get there faster. It doesn't turn the wrong direction into the right direction.
~ Marshall Goldsmith