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If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.
Martin Scorsese

Understand, Universe, Off

It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.
Robert Redford

Technology, Mind, Hard

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
Wayne Gretzky

Play, Against, Playing

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.
David Byrne

Time, Joy, Head

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Charles Kettering

Chance, Getting, Somewhere

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
Will Durant

Men, Him, Learn

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
Jean Cocteau

Silence, Moves, Backward

Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation.
Suze Orman

Mean, Won, Grow

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.
David Byrne

Good, Correct, Bikes

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
Ed Koch

Live, End, Find

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Time, Everything, Play

When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.
Susan Orlean

Happy, Person, Machine

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
Maria Sharapova

Age, Nature, Young

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
Vera Wang

Life, Success, Learn

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
Gustav Mahler

Boring, Audience, Slower

A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders.
Ron Fournier

Both, Debt, Congress

There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
Carlos Santana

Heart, Nothing, Everything

You cannot run faster than a bullet.
Idi Amin

Cannot, Run, Bullet

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Suge Knight

Character, Judge, Prison

We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.
Claude Chabrol

Live, Show, Police

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.
Sandra Bullock

Broken, Means, Guy

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Down, Used, Times

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
Lech Walesa

Democracy, Rhythm

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
Candice Bergen

Time, Friend, Book

Nobody is faster than me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.
Jason Reitman

Decisions, Film, Whether

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.
Margaret Cho

Future, Everything, Else

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.
Antonio Banderas

Heart, Normal, Complete

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
Adam Osborne

Computers, Mistakes, Wrong

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'
Ai Weiwei

Nature, Philosophy, Cannot

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