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Quotes About Speed

The first race is really just something that we will all need to get through. Until people see the cars in action I don't think they will understand how quick they will be, which means they are going to be tiring to drive.
~ Nigel Mansell
Even if you watch the races I won - the indoor titles and the Olympics - I've never really been a superfast starter.
~ Justin Gatlin
I'm challenged to races. Never a stranger. I've had a good friend of mine who, to be honest, is tiny and, like, should have assumed that I could have beat him, that I'm faster than him, and then crew members, two different crew members. I'm 3 and 0.
~ Grant Gustin
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
~ Andy Grove
The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.
~ Marianne Williamson
Fighting Manny Pacquiao is like playing a very fast game of chess. He was very fast and sharp. You have to be alert at all times and on your toes. There was a lot of incoming.
~ Jessie Vargas
Short track is like metal rock. You kind of always got to be on your toes.
~ Eddy Alvarez
A top-class striker normally plays up on his toes, so he can sprint or go for every ball that falls in his direction.
~ Marco van Basten
'Waveform' puts you in charge of the wavy pathway of a ship in space. Hit the good stuff and avoid the bad things. While it sounds simple, this title will keep you on your toes as you try to navigate the dark inky space. By hitting the items you want or following the correct path, you build up your combo as well as your speed.
~ Rob Manuel
Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I don't tolerate anything that runs slowly. Whether it be a phone, tablet or computer, it has to run at optimum speed.
~ Joe Trohman
It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does.
~ Peter Jackson
We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
~ Carl Honore
You watch the great quarterbacks like Peyton Manning and Drew Brees and Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers. They all play so fast, but it's under control because they know what the defense is presenting to them before it happens. It allows them to anticipate things a little quicker, and that makes all the difference in the world.
~ Matt LaFleur
It isn't so much that geniuses make it look easy; it's that they make it look it fast.
~ Sarah Manguso
It isn't so much that geniuses make it look easy; it's that they make it look fast.
~ Sarah Manguso
Technology freed us up . . . to imprison us further. It's created the imperative to go faster, to take on more ideas, and to juggle more.
~ Sarah Wilson
Afraid you won't be able to keep up," needled Volant, interrupting. "I thought you were The Fastest Flier in the Sky?!" "Really," said Gabby. "That's how you're going to play this?" "Yep, slowpoke, that's how I'm going to play it." And without another word, Volant the eagle launched into the air, pointed south, with not so much as a glance back.
~ Scott Bischke
i drive 160 on the freeway in the hopes of a fiery escape my major x-mas wish and like everyone else i get shit life on a razor's edge words that kill and guns that don't
~ Scott C. Holstad
When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car, I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster.
~ Scott Dixon
Run like the hounds of hell on a sinner's scent!
~ Scott Lynch
It took approximately seventy five years for the telephone to reach fifty million users, the radio thirty eight years, thirteen years for the television, four for the Internet, two for Facebook and only nineteen days, for Pokemon Go.
~ Scott Matthews
Q: What did the tomato do after falling behind in the race? A: Ketchup.
~ Scott McNeely
The Algo Wars were leaving a path of destruction in their wake. "HFT algos reduce the value of resting orders and increase the value of how fast orders can be placed and cancelled," wrote Nanex researcher Eric Hunsader. "This results in the illusion of liquidity. We can't understand why this is allowed to continue, because at the core, it is pure manipulation.
~ Scott Patterson