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Quotes About Pace

Maybe that's why we did things so fast," said Jerrier Haddad, a managing engineer on the 701. "We didn't have schedules to slow us down.
~ Kevin Maney
As a photonic being, I could easily follow Captain Eden at a brisk run and likely overtake her in the next hour. Were you inclined to take better care of yourself—and maintain a routine of rigorous exercise, like most Starfleet officers—you might be able to keep pace with me. However, I suspect even a light jog would have you panting for mercy in less than four hundred meters.
~ Kirsten Beyer
Love has its speed. It is a spiritual speed. It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed. It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, at three miles an hour. It is the speed we walk and therefore the speed the love of God walks.
~ Kosuke Koyama
It's hard to walk briskly at this time of year; the accelerating pace of unfolding spring slows my own. I repeatedly stop- to watch what's moving. Soon the torrent of migrants will completely overwhelm my ability to keep up with all the changes. But it's easy to revel in the exuberance and the sense of rebirth, renewal.
~ Carl Safina
From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.
~ Carre Otis
I'm not much of a distance runner, more of a sprinter.
~ Carrie Jones
She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear,...
~ George R. R. Martin
Another convenience is the speed limit. There is none.
~ Gerald A. Browne
In those days people moved more slowly down there, and Arch, who did just opposite, might almost have been taken for a Yankee.
~ Gerald Clarke
Es la vida la que va frenando a los ojos de uno. Todo se hace más pausado, por así decirlo, y al contemplar las cosas a cámara lenta se aprecia mucho más. ¡Qué cosas se ven entonces! ¡Qué cosas tan extraordinarias se revelan a nuestro alrededor, que antes ni siquiera habíamos sospechado! ¡Es verdaderamente una aventura encantadora, deliciosa!
~ Gerald Durrell
It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.
~ Bela Schick
To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.
~ Cicero
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
~ Mary Kay Ash
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
~ Bible
Make haste slowly.
~ Augustus
Not all speed is movement.
~ Toni Cade
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
~ Elbert Hubbard
There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.
~ Robert Graves
'Twin Peaks' was incredibly slow, methodic, taking shots that were uncomfortably long, with a lot of scenes where there was barely any dialogue. 'Riverdale' has a much faster pace.
~ Madchen Amick
When you're telling taut, tight storytelling that has any kind of built-in plot twist elements, you tend to want to stack everything up on top of itself as opposed to letting things breathe and be languid in terms of the passage of time.
~ Julie Plec
I'm just starting to realize the type of work that I want to do. Not everyone can fit into the sitcom world because it's so fast-paced, but it feels comfortable to me.
~ Brooke Shields
It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.
~ Olivia Wilde
Trying to keep up is the ultimate act of uncoolness. And so I still retrieve not one but two daily newspapers from the driveway.
~ Steve Rushin
I played the 1980 UEFA Cup final for Borussia Monchengladbach against Eintracht Frankfurt, who had the legendary South Korean Cha Bum-kun as their forward. He was the face of Frankfurt then. He had pace, great technique, was a great dribbler, and scored goals. And most importantly, he was the ultimate team man.
~ Lothar Matthaus