Quotes About Speed

I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

Festina lente

Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back at the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.

BMW." He smiles. "Little black beamer.

Special relativity declares a similar law for all motion: the combined speed of any object's motion through space and its motion through time is always precisely equal to the speed of light.

Since instantaneous foldspace communication did not exist between planets, certified and bonded Couriers booked passage on express Heighliners, bearing flash-memorized communications for personal delivery to the intended recipients. The net result was much faster than radio or other electronic signals that would take years to cross vast space.

Saro was breathing like a bellows, still hard on her opponent's heels. At the sound of Bragoon's whistle, Saro summoned up all her energy and put on a massive burst of speed. As the finishing line loomed up, Springald set her eyes dead ahead, racing wildly for it. Saro made a mighty leap. She sailed up and over, passing above the startled mousemaid's head, to land beyond the line, half a pace ahead, right beside Brother Weld, who roared out, "Saro wins!

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

The good news is that the faster you move, the more energy you have. The faster you move, the more you get done and the more effective you feel. The faster you move, the more you learn. The faster you move, the more competent and capable you become at anything you try— be it homework, music, sports, or anything else you put your mind to. The faster you work and the more you get done, the higher will be your levels of self-esteem, self-respect, and personal pride.

12. Identify your key constraints: Determine the bottlenecks or choke points, internal or external, that set the speed at which you achieve your most important goals, and focus on alleviating them.

20. Develop a sense of urgency: Make a habit of moving fast on your key tasks. Become known as a person who does things quickly and well.

If God was my co-pilot, Yancy once groused to Burton, I'd have the fucking pedal to the metal soon as I left the garage.

We sometimes hear of things that can travel faster than light. Something called 'the speed of thought' is occasionally proffered. This is an exceptionally silly notion especially since the speed of impulses through the neutrons in our brain is about the same as the speed of a donkey cart.

Einstein had been fascinated by Bernstein's People's Book of Natural Science, a popularization of science that described on its very first page the astonishing speed of electricity through wires and light through space. He wondered what the world would look like if you could travel on a wave of light. To travel at the speed of light? What an engaging and magical thought for a boy on the road in a countryside dappled and rippling in sunlight.

What sort of a transportation system d'you call this? The more popular it is the slower it goes!... 'You have to devise a system that goes faster the more popular it is, so it can cope! It's perfectly obvious!

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

Don't look back! Why not? Because I just did! Run faster!

He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.

The fastest way to travel is to be there already.

No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

La luz cree que viaja más deprisa que nada, pero se equivoca. Por muy rápido que vaya la luz, siempre se encuentra con que la oscuridad ha llegado antes y la está esperando.

Why are you always in such a hurry, Mr. Lipwig?" "Because people don't like change. But make the change happen fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.