I noticed that a characteristic feature of stupid people who sometimes occupy responsible positions is the ability to quickly make radical decisions on any issue.
“One thing we’ve learned is, if it’s clear that something is a mistake, fix it quickly.
It doesn’t get better while you wait.”
“Charlie and I believe that when you find information that contradicts your existing beliefs, you’ve got a special obligation to look at it—and quickly.”
Cast away every thing from you that favours of the lust of the eye and pride of life. Be quick to hear, slow to speak, and let your conversation always be seasoned with grace.
—George Whitefield
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
—Plato
One day people will stop fighting, waging war, executing people, and will begin to love one another. This day cannot be evaded, for within every person’s soul lies love, not hatred, toward others. Let’s do all we can to reach this day more quickly.
—Leo Tolstoy
There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.
—Miyamoto Musashi
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
—Julius Caesar
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
—Aristotle
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
—Cicero
I find that both mind and body are quickly tired with intenseness and fervour in the things of God. O that I could be as incessant as angels in devotion and spiritual fervour!
—David Brainerd
It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Quickness is the essence of the war.
—Sun Tzu