I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.
If a player has good technique and a good basic speed, but is slow in the head, this may reduce his value to the team.
A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan.
Everything is now moving fast so communication has to be fast as well. But the tragedy is that we have attained this speed at the cost of depth of words.
Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.
To increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, calmness that you can maintain. That is the secret to playing fast.
For me, speed isn't anything I ever practiced. It's all in the genes. Plus, my mom gave me a lot of vitamins when I was small.
The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.
The car crash that took the lives of these two lovely people has been portrayed as a traffic accident caused by a drunk driving at high speed. The reality is that it was murder.
You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.
O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!
There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.
Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth.
Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
My workouts are mostly interval-based, so I'm never running at a constant speed. I'm always switching it up because I don't want my body getting used to one thing in particular.
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events to keep their books timely and relevant.
Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed.
I wanted to explore what all this new-found wealth means for the different generations of Chinese who have to live together in this place that is transforming at warp speed into the richest country on the planet.
A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)
I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.
I don't like traffic cameras. In fact, I hate them. But that doesn't mean I can break the speed limit and run red lights to get to a New Orleans Saints game.
Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.
Run!” Piper said. “We are running!” Jason picked up the speed. “Run better!” Leo shouted.
My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.
As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.
In speed skating, we want to have the strongest, most powerful lower half of the body and don't want to have any weight on top.
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.
Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.
I work on my speed and strength every day, and I do a lot of work on my first five yards. For a footballer, that's really important.
Super Cruise will follow the lanes of the road, follow the speed you set, and you can be hands-off driving on an expressway.
The impending destruction of jobs due to automation and AI technologies is definitely increasing the need for - and speed at which - we have to implement big solutions, such as a universal basic income.
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.
I enjoy the speed of fashion. I love doing different things and I think I still have something valid to say in fashion.
When practicing, it's great to break a part down into its different elements, start slowly, and then try to build up the speed until you're playing as fast as you possibly can.
What I tell a lot of the younger guys is, 'My speed isn't the same, my agility isn't the same, but yet I still can talk.' That's an extra defender out there.
You lose speed, that's normal, but the technique you never lose.
At some point, the power side of the game has to peak, players can't get much bigger. Guys will be doing more footwork and explosive-speed stuff.
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.
If they're traveling at the speed of light, their month is perhaps the equivalent of twenty of our years. So they're just buzzing around having a good old time, continuously looking.
With Test cricket, it's very important that you are bowling at high speed but T20 cricket is a great way to be versatile.
Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.
Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'
According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.
The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.
All sports are continuously developing, but what they all have in common is that the speed is increasing. That's also true of tennis; the ball is getting faster and faster.
It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed.
Having served as a member of parliament for more than two decades, I'm well aware that there can be genuine constraints that affect the speed at which certain issues progress.
We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.
Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.
I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.
The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.
I think I've lost that ability to slow things down - that ability drivers have to calculate what's coming by you at tremendous speed. I used to have it.
It's just fantastic to feel the speed and the braking. It was a hard work - to hold an f1 car on the circuit is a job in itself. To drive quickly is another thing. I enjoyed it.
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