Quotes About Speed

ambulance carrying Guzman's lifeless body sped

A terrible thing happens when you water-ski. After you release the rope, you keep skimming over the water for a while, free. But there comes an inevitable moment when your speed fails to sustain your forward progress. The surface of the water breaks like glass. The depths open up to claim you. That was how I felt on land, watching the Object ski past. That same plunging, hopeless feeling, that emotional physics.

The length of the blackout was not absolutely fixed. If all went well, it would last about thirty-five minutes—a bit longer if the engine fired successfully and the ship slowed to 3,700 miles per hour and settled into orbit, a bit shorter if the engine failed to fire and the ship continued to speed along at 5,800 miles per hour. If something worse happened, the radio silence would last forever.

Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that's what gets you.

A Bugatti Veyron is] quite the most stunning piece of automotive engineering ever created....At a stroke then, the Veyron has rendered everything I've ever said about any other car obsolete. It's rewritten the rule book, moved the goalposts and in the process, given Mother Nature a bloody nose.

Speed has never killed anyone - suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

partimmo a un'andatura che avrebbe fatto onore al più veloce degli schiacciasassi mai costruito

Pain is knowledge rushing in to fill a void with great speed

And it's a life with no shortage of moments to recommend it, a life that picks up speed like a boulder rolling down a hill, easy and natural and comfortable, and yet beyond control somehow; it all happens so fast, you wake a young man and at lunch are middle-aged and by dinner you can imagine your death.

And when our lives do begin? I mean, the exacting part, the action? It's all so fast.

And when our lives do begin? I mean, the exciting part, the action? It's all so fast.

Apparently sprinters reach their highest speed right out of the blocks, and spend the rest of the race slowing down. The winners slow down the least. It's that way with most startups too. The earliest phase is usually the most productive. That's when they have the really big ideas. Imagine what Apple was like when 100% of its employees were either Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak.

Bird's mind and fingers work with incredible speed. He can imply four chord changes in a melodic pattern where another musician would have trouble inserting two.

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.

A lot of things work better in a locomotive.

Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.

The best founders work on things that seem small but they move really quickly. They get things done really quickly.

It's just fantastic to feel the speed and the braking. It was a hard work - to hold an f1 car on the circuit is a job in itself. To drive quickly is another thing. I enjoyed it.

If you have sixty seconds worth of distance...run!

To regain your lost years, you must make sure that any activity targeted at attaining your goal must be done with the qualities of intensity, speed and focus

You need speed to regain your lost years

You need intensity to be quick

When you are intense, you will do things persistently and with speed

Learn to do everything with speed to be efficient and effective