Quotes About Speed

the faster you make them go, the less they will understand. More speed means less comprehension. ...This showed there's just a maximum limit for how quickly humans can absorb information, and trying to bust through that barrier simply busts your brain's ability to understand it instead. The scientists investigating this also discovered that if you make people read quickly, they are much less likely to grapple with complex or challenging material. They start to prefer simplistic statements.

This showed there's just a maximum limit for how quickly humans can absorb information, and trying to bust through that barrier simply busts your brain's ability to understand it instead.

More speed means less comprehension.

I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.

Life moves very fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

Life isn't moving quickly - time moves very quickly.

You've never in your life seen a horse run like this! He's all power - all beauty.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

But as luck would have it, the distance from Marathon to Athens was greater by sea than by land. For ships had to negotiate a long spit of land easily crossed on foot. This Miltiades did. He sent a messenger ahead, who was to run as fast as he could, to warn the Athenians. This was the famous Marathon Run after which we call our race. Famous, because the messenger ran so far and so fast that all he could do was deliver his message before he fell down dead.

The possibility that all recognition of images is connected with projections and visual anticipations is strengthened by the results of recent experiments. It appears that if you show an observer the image of a pointing hand or arrow, he will tend to shift its location somehow in the direction of the movement. Without this tendency of ours to see potential movement in the form of anticipation, artists would never have been able to create the suggestion of speed in stationary images.

Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!

Time is relative, said Heraclitus a long time ago, and distance a function of velocity. Since the ultimate goal of transport technology is the annihilation of space, the compression of all Being into one pure point, it follows that six-packs help. Speed is the ultimate drug and rockets run on alcohol.

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings at a single bound—look, up there in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman!

Around the world thoughts shall flyIn the twinkling of an eye.

Two-lane blacktop isn't a highway — it's an attitude.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.

Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul.

The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.

Life in the fast laneSurely make you lose your mind.