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Quotes About Speed

Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.
~ Marvin Minsky
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.
~ Anthony Hecht
Messi or Cristiano - Speed? Cristiano. Shot? Cristiano. Dribbling? Messi. Intelligence? Messi. Talent? Messi. Winner is Messi!
~ Usain Bolt
Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.
~ Bill Parcells
Obstacles in life are similar to speed bumps on roads. They are both in place for a reason. So, slow down, be observant and make it to the end of the road successfully.
~ Jay Abiona
If you're living in constant fear of screwing up, don't be. As long as you move fast but safely, you're taking action, and action creates forward momentum and direction in your business—even if your progress isn't perfect 100 percent of the time. One
~ Jay Abraham
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
~ Jean Cocteau
Deznod?mintele cad ca tr?snetul. Nu cele ale istoriei, care nu vin niciodat?. Ci cele ale vie?ii, care vin foarte repede.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Viteza se strecur? pretutindeni, în c?l?torii, în obiceiuri, în mersul istoriei, care dup? cum repeta fiecare, se accelera, în ?tiin??, în mod?, ?i pân? ?i în literatur?.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
~ Jeanie Lang
spectacular. The chugging of the engine and the squeal
~ Jeanine Cummins
Cent éclairs par seconde frappent la surface terrestre !
~ Jean-Jacques Hublin
If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative.
~ Jeb Dickerson
With each passing second, more information becomes newly available than you could ingest, at typical viewing and reading speed, in the next eighty years.
~ Jeff Davidson
When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.
~ Jeff Gordon
I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.
~ Jeff Gordon
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
~ Jeff Marder
Long gone are the days when automobiles expanded possibility and choice for the majority of Americans. Now, thanks to its ever-increasing demands for space, speed, and time, the car has reshaped our landscape and lifestyles around its own needs. It is an instrument of freedom that has enslaved us.
~ Jeff Speck
the faster a society moves, the more it spreads out and the more time it must spend moving.
~ Jeff Speck
You're going to have to get much smarter very quickly.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Books don't take time away from us," she said. "They give it back. In this age of abstraction, of multitasking, of speed for speed's sake, they reintroduce us to the elegance—and the relief!—of real, tick-tock time.
~ Elizabeth Berg
anomaly, when in fact it's how the girl usually eats: head down, minimal conversation, maximum speed in clearing what she'll eat from her plate.
~ Elizabeth Berg
My hypersensitive awareness of time's speed led me to push myself to experience life at a maximum pace. If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert