Valerie Jarrett Quotes

A million years went by quick.

Everything's so accelerated now.

We like things to happen very quickly; it’s our lifestyle.

To be effective, we must also be fast, because everything is happening faster.

Mr. President, If you don’t do something and do it right away, I don’t know what is going to happen to this country.

The one thing finished in this hasty world.

Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.

Everything today is "transient." Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get used to living in a world that exists in a more or less constant state of flux.

The world will not wait for us.

Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.

You're always in the mode of creating the next season. It's so fast, and in two months, the collection you just did is already old, and it's always next, next, next.

Television moves so fast. A series moves at such a rapid pace and things are changing, episode to episode, where you're going, "Wait, why am I doing this? This last episode, you told me I was doing this." You're shooting at a moving target.

For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

We're not moving fast enough with where things are going.

Speed focuses the mind. It cuts through the fog of drab everyday living and keeps us on our toes. Speed works. Speed saves lives. Speed is good. And we should have more of it, not less.

It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now.

We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.