Quotes About Moving Quickly

#1. I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#2. The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

Bernard Malamud

#3. Life isn't moving quickly - time moves very quickly.

Robert Plant

#4. When strong, appear weak. Brave, appear fearful. Orderly, appear chaotic. Full, appear empty. Wise, appear foolish. Many, appear to be few. Advancing, appear to retreat. Moving quickly, appear to be slow. Taking, appear to leave. In one place, appear to be in another.

Sun Tzu

#5. People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.

Mark Zuckerberg

#6. Here was a guy who had taken much of the Silicon Valley ethic behind moving quickly and running organizations free of bureaucratic hierarchies and applied it to improving big, fantastic machines and chasing things that had the potential to be real breakthroughs we'd been missing.

Ashlee Vance

#7. Because you're running an enterprise with two hundred-odd people, and it's really your responsibility to keep it moving quickly. So you have to know what you're doing, do it, and move on.

William Monahan

#8. Soundlessly whispering into the void, my lips moving quickly, silently, without ceasing. Calling his name, calling him to me.
Even though there's no use.
Even though it's futile.
Even though it's way past too late.

Alyson Noel

#9. Without warning, he felt a familiar tug. Eilidh. If the intensity of the sensation was anything to go by, she was coming back and moving quickly. He had no way of knowing how long she would take, but it made his heart lighter to know he would see her soon.

India Drummond

#10. Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

James Gleick

#11. We are an industry that has historically been at the forefront of defining new media environments in ways that benefit consumers and move our entire business model forward. We must ensure that while we are moving quickly, we are also moving smartly.

Jim Stengel

#12. One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes ... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

Marc Andreessen

#13. She imagines the cocoa brown of Nnedi's eyes lighting up, her lips moving quickly, explaining that riots do not happen in a vacuum, that religion and ethnicity are often politicized because the ruler is safe if the hungry ruled are killing one another.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#14. In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.

Nicholas Negroponte

#15. Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly.

Curt Gowdy

#16. My own guess is that quite quickly the machine intelligence will start dreaming machine dreams and thinking machine thoughts, both of which would totally incomprehensible to us. This would then lead to each species, we and the machines, moving off on to its own separate life trajectory.

John L. Casti

#17. We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.

Rob Simmons

#18. We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing that people are captivated with the illustrations in a story.

Stan Lee

#19. I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

James Cameron

#20. There has been a noticeable decline in the labor factor in all wealthy countries in the past 20 years. The rich are getting richer, but those at the lower end aren't moving ahead as quickly as the capitalists.

Kenneth Rogoff

#21. Sometimes I will draw people and they will move away too quickly for me to finish what I wanted, and it is not enough for me to consider it a drawing of them. I hope I have gotten better at capturing things quicker in a drawing.

Jason Polan

#22. I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.

J.I. Packer

#23. I know we have to hurry!" Klaus cried. "I'm moving these noodles as quickly as I can!

Lemony Snicket

#24. Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can sense the reaction from the audience and quickly move on.

Betty White

#25. Move too quickly and time will pass you by.

Al Barry

#26. Some injuries heal more quickly if you keep moving.

Nick Vujicic

#27. I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should respect them. It is too risky to play sharply to beat them in 20 moves.

Bent Larsen

#28. He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. "I miss you," Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.

Erin Morgenstern

#29. Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

Brit Marling

#30. Be swift to take advantage of business opportunities. Bigger companies are too cumbersome to move quickly; this can be a competitive advantage for you.

Richard Branson

#31. I like to move quickly. I don't like the nature of television of just sitting around and overshooting.

Jake M. Johnson

#32. Of course there is sometimes a price to pay. While I was busy painting, not only was my light dissipating quickly, but the fog had crept in slowly at the same time. When I lifted my eyes from the panel, I realized that I had better get a move on - and quickly.

Cory Trepanier

#33. The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all of what's happening, so you can really just flow with the lines, and you're reading and it has a momentum and you understand it emotionally.

Kirsten Dunst

#34. We will always be attracted to the situation or person that we need, in any given moment, in order to learn whatever lesson that we need to learn. The most important thing is to learn the lesson quickly, let go, and then move on.

Robert Anthony

#35. Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we're left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there trembling not moving, assuming the worst that can happen or we step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant.

Sandra Oh

#36. I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#37. Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.

Livy

#38. Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate.

Robert Asprin

#39. In most cases we perform better when we're busy than when we're not busy. When we're slow, our mind wanders. We're not as attentive to our business. When we're on the firing line, we're sharper. We move more quickly and get the job done right.

S. Truett Cathy

#40. Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.

John Hickenlooper

#41. Like a summer storm, the ferment quickly passed,moving from explosive turmoil to exhausted calm in a few seconds.

Dennis Vickers

#42. You okay, baby? Cold"
"I'm fine." I glance quickly behind us and see the two security guys, whose names I forget, standing close by.
Moving me in front of him, Christian puts both his arms around me in my shoulder.

E.L. James

#43. This is Holy Wood. To pass the time quickly, you just film the clock hands moving fast ...

Terry Pratchett

#44. I believe that modern life is moving too fast. A bullet travels quickly, but it usually comes to an abrupt and fatal end.

Fennel Hudson

#45. Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

Gogen Yamaguchi

#46. I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.

Brian Selznick

#47. The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format.

Craig McCracken

#48. When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point. In Britain if the sparks call you Guv on day two, you never need an award of any other kind.

William Monahan

#49. When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

Robert Stone

#50. Things move so quickly on set. When you're about to do another take and you have a minute to figure out what you're doing, you just kind of determine how you're going to do it on the spot.

Michael Cera

#51. He had whispered the dark promise that he would fuck her ass, take her there, make her scream for him. She bit her lips, her fingers moving, one inserting into that tiny, dark hole while she wished she hadn't packed her vibrator so quickly.

Lora Leigh

#52. Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.

John Podhoretz

#53. Do not to take everything personally or so seriously, because sometimes you're just not right for a particular job. You have to be able to take rejection quickly and honestly, know what you need to work on, and move on.

Kellee Stewart

#54. Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

Brian Tracy

#55. I like TV in the way that it moves quickly, I like the pace of TV because I'm that type of actor. I like to go-go-go. I don't have to do 50 million takes of something. I guess I'm not that patient. I really like the pace of it.

A. J. Cook

#56. History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep changing parts.

Ian Fleming

#57. Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the license to look at them quickly - to consume them and move on.

James Elkins

#58. As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly.

Justin Hayward

#59. Life is ephemeral; each moment passes quickly, a blur of color on a fast moving subway car. There and gone and all we are left with is the imprint of what once was.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#60. We used a racquetball and threw it off the wall as hard as we could, then tracked it down with our eyes and feet. Nike has new balls that bounce all sorts of different directions and really help you learn to track the ball and move your feet to react quickly.

Antonio Cromartie

#61. In standard American English, the word with the most gradations of meaning is probably run. The Random House unabridged dictionary offers one hundred and seventy-eight options, beginning with "to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk" and ending with "melted or liquefied." In

Stephen King

#62. The sword glitters not because the swordsman set out to make it glitter but because he is fighting for his life and therefore moving it very quickly.

C.S. Lewis

#63. You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.

Sam Altman

#64. Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#65. Bobby Orr had lots of moves and speed. You had to be careful or he would make you look like a fool. Jacques was impresed how quickly he caught up to Yvan Cournoyer one night when the Habs were playing the Bruins. I didn't think the kid had that kind of speed.

Jacques Lemaire

#66. I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!

Martin Luther King Jr.

#67. Americans are born knowing everything and nothing. Born moving forward, quickly, or thinking they are.

Dave Eggers

#68. Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

Tahir Shah

#69. Zombies are always moving fast in video games. It makes sense if you think about it. Those games are all about hand-eye coordination and how quickly can you get them before they get you.

George A. Romero

#70. Who said that think we should normalize relations with Iran tomorrow? I never said that. I think we should move forward as quickly as we can.

Bernie Sanders

#71. Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly ... The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself, without our even thinking of it.

Vincent De Paul

#72. We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader.

Robert Mueller

#73. The best founders work on things that seem small but they move really quickly. They get things done really quickly.

Sam Altman

#74. Some photographers shoot hundreds of pictures in a row and you need to be able to move from pose to pose very quickly while trying to make it look effortless.

Jamie Eason

#75. Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.

William Carlos Williams

#76. We can't move quickly. You move quick out here and you die quick.

Cody Lundin

#77. The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#78. The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.

William Hurrell Mallock

#79. He deserves ten out of ten for doing what he does. He is a sensation, but still he can improve. He must know when to move the ball on quickly and when to try the impossible mission. When he learns this, he won't win a single Golden Ball, but an entire collection.

Johan Cruijff

#80. Unfortunately, I don't train enough on an everyday basis to be a black belt, but if I put my mind to it I think I could definitely move very quickly in that world.

Milla Jovovich

#81. And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.

George W. Bush

#82. Presence remains even amidst worldly activities. Stillness is there even when you're doing something quickly, like rushing to answer the phone. Otherwise you would be condemned to moving in slow motion.

Eckhart Tolle

#83. Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.

Michael Stean

#84. And because technology is moving so rapidly, things become obsolete very, very quickly. In 15 years time, Will Caster is probably going to be in some weird room in Vegas where people are plugging quarters into him. Who has a mini-disc of a laser disc player? It's over!

Johnny Depp

#85. Time was like a river, and I was a fish in that river, moving so quickly that the world outside my household was blur.

Alice Hoffman

#86. Learn your lessons quickly and move on.

Eileen Caddy

#87. We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's created the worldwide software industry that ... that is so very competitive and moving so quickly.

Bill Gates

#88. Children live in a way that is very generous. They learn from a young age what you value; they watch your every move. If you value writing, they will learn quickly to value it too, as something they can give to someone, or receive with pleasure from someone else.

Pam Allyn