Pauline Kael said that Rip Torn could get angrier faster than any other American actor: that he could go from zero to 10 in 1.8 seconds or something like that.
It’s fun to figure out a way to make something happen that will get the reader involved on a visceral level. When written well, an exciting scene on the page will actually have a physical effect on the reader – your heart will beat faster, your adrenaline will start to flow.
I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor – all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
One-day cricket is a lot more draining because it’s a lot faster. You don’t get as much break. You are running a lot harder.
I was born in L.A., so there’s a lot of focus on getting into great shape, and, for me, I found that when I started to be more loving to myself and find ways to get excited about my exercise routine, I got into shape easier and faster, and it became a lifestyle.
Everyone knows the more you chase something the faster it runs and the more you ignore something the faster it comes.
I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, ‘Hmm, that was fast – let’s see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.’
Knowing some guys are way bigger than you, way faster than you, you have to find other ways to do what you want to do.
Type ‘What is th’ and faster than you can find the ‘e’ Google is sending choices back at you: ‘What is the cloud?’ ‘What is the mean?’ ‘What is the American dream?’ ‘What is the illuminati?’ Google is trying to read your mind. Only it’s not your mind. It’s the World Brain.
Short stories consume you faster. They’re connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they’re also a total joy.
I only have so much ring time that my body can endure. I’ve had four surgeries on my knees, arthritis in my neck, separated my shoulders, broken my nose. I’m just gonna hope that science advances faster than I can deteriorate. Because what am I gonna do? Put a perfect body into the ground? What’s the point of that?
Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.
Even before the advent of smart devices, we employed touchscreens for our games with Nintendo DS, and we also adopted accelerometers for our Wii Remotes faster than smart devices did.
It’s good to have high-quality competition. It helps drive research forward at a faster pace.
By developing deep learning solutions that are faster, easier, and less expensive to use, Nervana is democratizing deep learning and fueling advances in medical diagnostics, image and speech recognition, genomics, agriculture, finance, and eventually across all industries.
If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I’m out folks. I’ve seen this story before, I ran an ISP back in the late 90s.
If we are ever going to fix our housing affordability crisis, we have to make significant changes to how we plan and construct, and we have to be open to solutions that make it easier and faster to build much-needed housing.
I found my luck in Leipzig. We achieved the goal of playing internationally much faster than we had intended. There are certainly worse destinies than being coach of such a team.
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
I think I’ll finish Cruz faster than I finished Barao. Cruz has got a crazy style. But I think I’m going to finish him quicker than I finished Barao.
I’ve always said the one change that would’ve been nice is if I’d been a bit faster – like fast enough to be able to run past people instead of just being overtaken all the time!
The first car I drove was a BMW M3. I drove it around a circuit close to my house. We just wanted to go and have some fun and didn’t think it was going to be competitive in terms of lap times. But I ended up being faster than the instructors that day.
I take biotin and silica for my hair to grow faster, but it’s good for your skin, too.
I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher.
I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn’t expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.
A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or – startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up – on their telephone, on their smart phone.
I agree that an actor’s shelf life is so less, so they want it to move faster. But in that fast forward mode, you don’t want to make wrong choices.
In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays and faster processors to justify their high prices.
I just try to compete. That’s all. There’s gonna be faster guys, stronger guys, but you just gotta give effort.
Kids are coming online and connecting at a pace that’s faster than their physical maturation process. Would you ever imagine that you’d have to talk to your kid about phishing before you’re talking to him about the birds and the bees?
There’s no faster way to get on the good side of most engineers than making fun of product managers.
As I’ve always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you’ve done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.
Computers get better faster than anything else ever.
When you are stronger, it helps. But ever since I have played football, I have been one of the smallest ones, and you have to try to compensate with other things because if you are faster or stronger, it helps you.
I knew that there would be climbers around me who would reach the summit faster. I was warned not to be hasty.
I’m not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey’s perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.
If you look at the history of communication, new technologies like the phone and e-mail didn’t just let people do things faster; it fundamentally changed the scope of the kinds of projects people dared to take on.
I always think of it like, you’ve really got to tell the truth when you get on the football field. Do you have talent? Have you put in the effort? Are you stronger, are you faster, or are you not? It happens out on the football field, almost like a truth serum.
It’s important to reflect upon how far we’ve come in achieving gender equality in the workplace and how we could move faster toward even greater goals.
Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.
One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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.
Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.
Nowadays, ideas can meet and mate very much faster than before, and the Internet is only accelerating this process. So innovation is bound to accelerate.
Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.
There were times I didn’t know if I even belonged in the NBA. Everyone at this level is so good – bigger, stronger, faster.
What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.
I think what has allowed me to be successful is that I can absorb more information than most and drill down to the key business elements of that information and make faster decisions. And of course, I truly try to enjoy every minute of my life. I can never understand why anyone wouldn’t.
As someone who started in the digital background, it’s an easier, better, faster platform to bounce off of. You already have so much momentum, and you already have the experience. You’re already comfortable being in front of the camera.
Here’s the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don’t get there, we’re both fired.
One of the reasons microcomputers progressed so fast is people are willing to accept crashes. It’s faster to build something and try it, even if it means you’ll have to rebuild later… If you spent too much time building and massaging one vehicle, you don’t learn anything.
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
