James Gates Percival Quotes

If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat.

I can do lightning mathematics quicker than somebody can do them on a calculator.

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.

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.

Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

Thought flies and words go on foot.

Two key ingredients in any successful chef: a quick learner and someone with a sharp brain.

Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.

There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

It's I who have to talk fast. It's you who have to think fast.

Speed is not part of the true Way of strategy. Speed implies that things seem fast or slow, according to whether or not they are in rhythm. Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.

Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.

He bats like a lightning rod.