The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives of the global economic order. In addition, we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology.
A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly.
Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use resources on a scale and at a speed that our fellow species can't.
Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions
Everybody is looking at their base business and saying, "What else is it? Sure, we do this, but while we're doing that, what else do we know about our customer, and what does that enable us to do?" That comes from the access to information and the ability to analyze it with a speed they never had. I think everybody is thinking that way.
Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.
Don't judge your running by your speed.
You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.
My speed is a gift from God, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, it all comes from him.
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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.
White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.
I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me!
If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.
A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.