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  • Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly! -- Charlotte Bronte
  • Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time -- Tim Harford
  • We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring. -- Henry Reed
  • Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket. -- Bill Engvall
  • The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The new order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'. -- Bob Dylan
  • Come mothers and fathers. Throughout the land and don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old road is Rapidly again. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand for the times they are a-changin'. -- Bob Dylan
  • My organs are too powerful... I manufacture blood and fat too rapidly. -- Robert Baldwin
  • The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. -- Jeremy Bentham
  • Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future. -- Walt Disney
  • An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. -- Jack Welch
  • Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. -- T. S. Eliot
  • People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion. -- Sarah Churchwell
  • Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world. -- Margaret Chan
  • One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures. -- Josiah Gilbert Holland
  • The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed. -- Christopher Nolan
  • There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. -- Josiah Gilbert Holland
  • America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. -- James Madison
  • If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in. -- Alan Moore
  • The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals. -- Gordon Moore
  • Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing. -- Rowan Williams
  • Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life. -- Brian Tracy
  • With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. -- Gordon Moore
  • When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly. -- Claire Scovell LaZebnik
  • The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable. -- Elon Musk
  • Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. -- Nikola Tesla
  • Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely. -- Rick Pitino
  • The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit. -- Michael Hastings
  • Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals of our society, such as platinum, copper and zinc, are rapidly becoming scarce. The asteroids might offer a replacement supply, providing the materials our descendants will need for a high quality life. -- Seth Shostak
  • The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from. -- Donald Trump
  • There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship. -- Helen Mirren
  • If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form. -- Stephen Hawking
  • I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven is to one against your finding the prince. That's why little girls don't do math. -- Emily Levine
  • Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly. -- John Maynard Keynes
  • Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field. -- Stephen Hawking
  • The world has become rapidly more competitive. -- John Hickenlooper
  • We are losing our environment so rapidly. -- Stefanie Powers
  • Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. -- Horace Mann
  • The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking. -- John Desmond Bernal
  • In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma. -- Storm Jameson
  • Well Ibrox is filling up slowly, but rapidly -- James Sanderson
  • The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems. -- Kathy Acker
  • Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. -- Quintilian
  • Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. -- Niklaus Wirth
  • We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. -- Douglas Coupland
  • I started buying on the Internet quite rapidly, as early as 1995. -- Francois-Henri Pinault
  • The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content. -- Richard E. Pattis
  • The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply. -- Thomas Malthus
  • Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. -- Barry Boehm
  • That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures. -- J. G. Holland
  • The stress of an action diminishes rapidly after that action is performed. -- Marshall Sylver
  • I had no idea that things would change so rapidly, so drastically. -- Bern Will Brown
  • And with technology, as we know, it can go very, very rapidly. -- Donald Trump
  • Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum. -- Bruce Lee
  • The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians. -- Robert Shea
  • Mobile Messaging is rapidly becoming the primary way users engage socially on mobile. -- Keith Teare
  • We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels -- Richard Branson
  • Because knowledge changes so rapidly, knowledge flow is more important than knowledge stock. -- John Hagel
  • Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes. -- Edith Wharton
  • Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight. -- Joel Fuhrman
  • If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning. -- Brad Thor
  • We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
  • The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up. -- Andre Breton
  • Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world. -- Lauren Bacall
  • Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. -- John Steinbeck
  • The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly. -- Isabel Paterson
  • The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world. -- Simon Mainwaring
  • Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom. -- Jimmy Greaves
  • Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws. -- Megan Whalen Turner
  • Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can. -- John Boyd Orr
  • In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly. -- Samuel Beckett
  • I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough. -- John Mayer
  • Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. -- Edward Sapir
  • Things change pretty rapidly. But they don't change inevitably. They change because you work for it. -- Barack Obama
  • Every generation has their challenge. And things change rapidly, and life gets better in an instant. -- Jon Stewart
  • The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage. -- Steve Blank
  • CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge. -- Rick Bayan
  • When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'. -- Thomas J. Watson
  • Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity. -- Hugh MacLennan
  • I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them. -- Adnan Pachachi
  • America's remaining wild horses are under aggressive attack and rapidly disappearing from government-managed, citizen-owned wilderness spaces. -- Zoe Helene
  • The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. -- Havelock Ellis
  • The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana. -- Norman Maclean
  • Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found. -- John Quincy Adams
  • We are rapidly moving toward a nation of the super-rich, by the super-rich and for the super-rich -- Bernie Sanders
  • When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline. -- Joe Whitney
  • Beginning in 1940,...questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer. ...the proportion of 'cancer' cures...increased rapidly... -- Hardin B. Jones
  • Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more. -- Michael Jackson
  • This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
  • No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet. -- Elizabeth Kolbert
  • There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better. -- Sam Yagan
  • The world today is changing rapidly, and we are helping to make it better for our children's future. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
  • One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration. -- Rene Dubos
  • Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers. -- Alexander Woollcott
  • Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
  • We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter. -- Howard Rheingold
  • Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside. -- Helene Cixous
  • It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods. -- Jack Kilby
  • Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy. -- Martin Seligman
  • There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more. -- Colin Powell
  • Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. -- Isabel Paterson
  • He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined. -- Chanakya
  • I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting. -- Victor Gollancz
  • As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly. -- Jeff Bridges
  • Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going. -- Edwin Land
  • Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. -- Lord Byron
  • Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. -- Aldous Huxley
  • A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current. -- Vivek Wadhwa
  • Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever. -- Donald A. Norman
  • Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act. -- McGeorge Bundy
  • I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute, & if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it -- William S. Burroughs
  • Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." -- Lewis Mumford
  • The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs. -- Wendy Beckett
  • What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. -- Robert Browning
  • In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity. -- Laurie Cunningham
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