Fast Results Quotes

#1. No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

John Barton

#2. The effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.

Paul Caponigro

#3. Eyes blurred, she drove away. Alone, buzzing down the asphalt trail to Kayenta, heart beating, her pistons leaping madly up and down, Bonnie Abbzug relapsed into the sweet luxury of tears. Hard to see the road. She turned on the windshield wipers but that didn't help much.

Edward Abbey

#4. Most people don't have facades," Natalie said drily. "Oh everyone thinks they do, but when you dig below the facade, there is only more facade.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

Dan Kaminsky

#6. The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.

Cindy Gallop

#7. What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve.

Seth

#8. There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does.

Helen Wills

#9. We all want results and we want them fast. But, when practicing meditation, impatience is a hindrance.

Gudjon Bergmann

#10. I'm not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn't say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don't think it's between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?

Matt LeBlanc

#11. To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#12. You want to play head games?" Molly snarled, her blue eyes blazing. "Let's go.

Jim Butcher

#13. You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't
if you are wise
talk down to any audience.

Norman Thomas

#14. A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower.

John Ousterhout

#15. The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

Isabel Allende

#16. The Council of American Builders met once a month and engaged in no tangible activity beyond listening to speeches and sipping an inferior brand of root beer. Its membership did not grow fast in quantity or quality. There were no concrete results achieved.

Ayn Rand

#17. Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Peace Pilgrim

#18. Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

Sumner Redstone

#19. What philosophers say about actuality [Virkelighed] is often just as disappointing as it is when one reads on a sign in a secondhand shop: Pressing Done Here. If a person were to bring his clothes to be pressed, he would be duped, for the sign is merely for sale.

Soren Kierkegaard

#20. I think people get intimidated, and they think results should happen right away. Like I said earlier, the body can only change so fast, and so when you're doing it right you just have to keep at it and keep up with a balanced program.

Daniel Cudmore

#21. Who do you think is lying to us?" Shevek demanded.
Placid, Bedap met his gaze. "Who, brother? Who but ourselves?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#22. We always have something running in the back of our thoughts. What's running behind yours?
Right now I was thinking about how nice his eyes looked, but I'd shave my head before I admitted that.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#23. Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.

Paul Clitheroe

#24. We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

William S. Burroughs