#speed

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#being #government #high #kicked #life

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

#being #decisions #during #intention #least

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#asked #friends #harvest #help #i

Television speeded everything up. ↗

— Ruth Handler

#speeded #television #up

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker. ↗

— Julie Christie

#me #person #realize #slow #speedy

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little. ↗

— James Stewart

#career #had #i #little #maybe

Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#become #children #eager #especially #grew

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #arts-and-humanities #creation #creative-process #creative-work

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #associations #case #complexity #delicacy

Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several lives and I still lead some of them. ↗

— Renata Adler

#change