Rapid Quotes

297 Rapid quotes by 266 unique authors

To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he… — Dorothy L. Sayers
It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly. — Theodor Billroth
Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval. — Lloyd Grove
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which… — Milan Kundera
For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging… — Laurent Fabius
The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant… — Thomas Eakins
Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a stream of tremendously… — Carlos Castaneda
Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die… — George Crabbe
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. — Henry David Thoreau
Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is… — James Russell Lowell
A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition… — B.F. Skinner
After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very… — Shunryu Suzuki
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be… — Benjamin Franklin
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… — Matthew Simpson
I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and… — Neil Postman
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… — John Desmond Bernal
One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than… — Arthur Levitt Jr
No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. — Ernest Lawrence
Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We want continual growth,… — Frederick Lenz
As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs… — Danielle Trussoni
Each time you dip into the well of existence it changes you. Rapid mental development is that process. It is a process of escalating your… — Frederick Lenz
If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then you will have… — Frederick Lenz
I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we… — Matt Mullenweg
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by… — Ernst Mayr

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