#rapid

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#change #changes #fear #form #i

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough. ↗

— Sunny Murray

#beats #between #deep #difference #enough

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#around #distant #everywhere #fact #found

Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere. ↗

— Emma Smith

#life #rapid #river #simile #sweep

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#age #busy #knowledge #live #perfection

The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#advance #after #again #army #become

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#find #growth #little #lucky #mad

For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#also #around #become #behind #countries

Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#been #during #farmers #increase #increasing

This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#burden #countries #development #disease #double