Speed of Thought Quotes

The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There's no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that's what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.

The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

Thought flies and words go on foot.

When you can get the game to slow down for you, you can play a lot faster.

People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.

I like working really fast. The best ideas are the first ones that come into your head - so why bother thinking of any more?

We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.

I am not that fast and skilful. I am not Raheem Sterling, am I? So I know I have to use my strength and power in the box.

Jorginho is not a physical player, he is a technical player, but the most important quality is that he is very quick in the mind. He has the ability to move the ball very quickIy.

Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

The truly great players have this advantage over the rest of the international elite, gifted though those others are: they have the ability to slow down a ball travelling at 90mph, to move before others can, to make the world adjust to their rhythm rather than the other way round.

I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.