Quotes About Speed

I've always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used to last thirty or forty years - now we're lucky if it's five.

The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Sometimes the hardest part I think for actors on '24' is some of the jargon and getting the ideas and the thoughts and the information out quickly enough and succinctly enough and clearly enough.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

They were sweeping at full gallop round the mile-wide curve of the woodshore. To Marcus that moment was always like being born from one kind of life into another.

Anyone can make an athlete tired, but not everyone can make that athlete faster.

They are the four main components of fitness: endurance, stamina, economy, and speed. Because these components are interdependent, they must be developed in a progressive manner. The

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.

Live your life in the now, because you get to a certain age and you realize, "Wow, that was fast.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

Grandfather was about sixty, a lean active man who still rode his bicycle at great speed.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

There are lots of superheroes with different superpowers, and some of them are big and flashy, like super strength and super speed, and molecular restructuring, and force fields. But these abilities are really not so different from the superpower stuff that old Jiko could do, like moving superslow, or reading people's minds, or appearing in doorways, or making people feel okay about themselves by just being there.

Do it fast, simple, and right the first time (and did we mention fast?).

guiding principles about the system: "Do it fast, simple, and right the first time (and did we mention fast?)." They wrote these "laws" on a white board, and they stuck. They forced us to create code that was simple and efficient, and this is what ultimately gave us the ability to scale.

But Slipher felt he needed to acquire an even better spectrum to peg the exact speed. It was an endeavor, he told Lowell, that "would doubtless impress all these observers as a quite hopeless undertaking, and maybe it is, but I want [to] make an attempt.

hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold of to-day's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery that anyone who will can oust us from possession.

In a moment the earth will cover us all. Then the earth too will change, and then further successive changes to infinity. One reflecting on these waves of change and transformation, and the speed of their flow, will hold all mortal things in contempt.

We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down.

The rest of his life. How long that time had once felt to him. How quickly it has sped by. How much of it has been wasted. How soon it will be over.

Change can be accommodated by any system depending on its rate, Crake used to say. Touch your head to a wall, nothing happens, but if the same head hits the wall at ninety miles an hour, it's red paint. We're in a speed tunnel, Jimmy. When the water's moving faster than the boat, you can't control a thing.

Time is going faster and faster; the days of the week whisk by like panties.