Quotes About Speed

Life is a race against disappearing time

Life is a race against time

Life must be lived in speed and focus

A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.

You work very slowly. In fact, if you went any slower you'd be in reverse.

Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two.

....I'd rather travel in Cargo-nanoships than a Bullet-train to reach my target.

It's not always about reach, it's about footwork, it's being fast, in and out, stuff like that.

There is a reductive nature to the Internet, and it's not limited to comic book news sites and stuff: it's everybody. There is a reductive nature of it, by which anything that's said very quickly gets reduced down to the next. Reduced, reduced, reduced to the point where rumors with some sense of nuance to them just become fact.

The $25,000 stunt was a demonstration of the automobile air bag system for an Allstate Insurance television commercial. I drove a car into a concrete obstacle at 25 m.p.h.

Jockeys - it's so difficult It's completely insane. You're balancing on the balls of your feet on the spine of a horse and it's like you're piloting a missile It's amazing. I think jockeys are stunt men.

One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.

Because we don't have a lot of light, because we have a very low budget, we have to adjust the speed of our camera to get the effect that we want. So sometimes this is the way we work, and the result of the filming becomes a kind of a style.

I will run with perfect style when they start judging races for their beauty, like figure-skating. For now, I just want to run as fast as possible.

I play a lot quicker, in quite an attacking style, play a few little crazy shots sometimes that other players wouldn't take.

The goal is not to solo. Of course, it is possible to move fast in alpine style also with a partner. I just need the right partner.

I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.

Being a fast mover and being decisive—it is very hard to be successful and not have those traits as a founder. Why that is, I'm not perfectly clear on, but I think it is something . . . about the only advantage that start-ups have or the biggest advantage that start-ups have over large companies is agility, speed, willing to make non-consensus, concentrated bets, incredible focus. That's really how you get to beat a big company.

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

The hardest part of skating is the ice.

Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.

Direction is more important than speed. We are so busy looking at our speedometers that we forget the milestone.

Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work.