Valentino Rossi
Motorcycle Racer
"The speed is something dangerous but very exciting."
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Speed
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Paul Walker
Actor
"If one day speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling."
Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares."
Paul Walker
Actor
"If speed one day kills me, don't be sad because I was smiling"
Guthrie Govan
Musician
"Speed is a byproduct of good, slow practice."
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"They say...the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely."
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"Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction."
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"Nature has given you everything: you have got unlimited resources. The foundations of your State have been laid, and it is now for you to build, and build as quickly and as well as you can. So go ahead and I wish you God speed."
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"Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum."
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"You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going."
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"Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses."
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"We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed."
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"The city that has speed has success."
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"Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make only a dreamy, bewildering, swirling blur, most of which is unrememberable."
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"What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity."
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"Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder."
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"Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime."
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"Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now."
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"Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it."
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"Reckless haste makes poor speed."
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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
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"Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed"
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"To increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, calmness that you can maintain. That is the secret to playing fast."
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"I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly, or at medium speed. I either do or I don’t."
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"Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie."
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