Quotes About The World Moving Too Fast

#1. If you complain about the world moving too fast, slow down.

Michael Dolan

#2. Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that sit in waiting and are all part of winning in a fast-moving, ever-changing world.

Bob Proctor

#3. Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You're not moving so fast that you miss the world's details passing by - in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.

John Battelle

#4. This is a critical juncture in our history. Many young people of color in economically underdeveloped communities are becoming deeply rooted in personal and academic dormancy that interrupts their ability to invest in our fast-moving, ever-changing, increasingly demanding world.

Alfred W. Tatum

#5. Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane world of the familiar.

Richard Dawkins

#6. 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

#7. I think our collective psychosis is hilarious. With the world moving as fast as it is, if we weren't dysfunctional, we couldn't function.

Christopher Titus

#8. I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.

J. Christopher Burch

#9. By and large, the world wants to move away from the nuclear era. The question is how fast and how far. In a world of sovereign nation-states, I can't rationalize any number above zero. If it's more than zero, you have to acknowledge every nation has the right to have them.

George Lee Butler

#10. Recognizing that the movie business was the entertainment business that wasn't moving fast enough to fill my creative and financial coffers was an impetus to grow, and that has taken me and so many of my colleagues into a larger world.

Lynda Obst

#11. Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.

Jeff Ament

#12. To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Pearl S. Buck

#13. The world would not be moving so fast if it didn't have to constantly outrun it's own collapse.

Comite Invisible

#14. It seemed like the world is moving too fast and I wanted it to stop, or at least slow down, so that I could keep up. I wanted the time to wait for me. Then I realized, life goes on, and I have to live with it.

Kcat Yarza

#15. In this new world, with smartphones and tablets and cloud computing, things are moving around fast.

Hector Ruiz

#16. Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#17. 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

#18. What drives men of genius is their obsession with the idea that what has already been done is not good enough.

Eugene Delacroix

#19. It looked like Ben Stiller was one of the showbiz meteorites who was moving so fast he would soon have no worlds left to conquer.

Manohla Dargis

#20. My biggest fear isn't being a failure as an author but being a failure at being me.

Christina Noll

#21. The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Elbert Hubbard

#22. I can understand why those bands do it. It can be a hell of a lot of bloody fun. People are allowed to have a bit of fun after the age of 40, and a lot of them do need the money.

Nik Kershaw

#23. I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always

Red Skelton

#24. There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#25. Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is

Edwin Louis Cole

#26. In the sunny world, with its small things moving too fast, I shy away from light and in the attic cuss the dark.

Andre Alexis

#27. I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

Wes Borland