Velocity Quotes
Velocity Quote of the day
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
Find your speed, maintain your velocity, keep it up, keep it consistent, and stay in the pocket.
The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.
An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.
Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.
In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.
By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.
The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.
A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.
I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.
People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.
From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.
What appears to be the established order of present-day civilization is actually only the inert but spectacular momentum of a high velocity vehicle whose engine has already stopped functioning.
I think herd mentality is a good thing overall. Because if every sheep had to figure out the velocity of the wolf and their personal risk, that would take forever.
Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.
When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.
Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system 'at rest' with the definite, constant velocity V independent of whether this ray of light is emitted by a body at rest or a body in motion.
We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.
No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?
My leg was made for kicking things. Doesn't matter the circumstance, style or formation. It's all about putting your foot on the right spot of the ball and letting your leg velocity do the rest.
The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are in the stadium, you feel them and you see the velocity of the players.
Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity.
Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors.
My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.
If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.
...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.
It is through many lifetimes of shifting the aggregate of the self that one finally reaches a point of maximum velocity whereby one can snap off the circle completely and move into freedom.
I haven't always thrown hard, but eventually my (velocity) caught up with my mechanics.
Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.
Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's vivid and high-velocity, too. I couldn't put it down.
Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1.
"The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique."
Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.
The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered.
Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.
Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'
When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.
The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.
The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.
