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  • Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.

    Sun Tzu: The Art of War: Part 4 2007

  • The Yerkes-Dodson law was first published in R.M. Yerkes and J.D. Dodson, “The Relation of Strength of Stimulus to Rapidity of Habit-Formation,” Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology, 181909: 459–482.

    Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007

  • The Yerkes-Dodson law was first published in R.M. Yerkes and J.D. Dodson, “The Relation of Strength of Stimulus to Rapidity of Habit-Formation,” Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology, 181909: 459–482.

    Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007

  • Rapidity of play, infallible accuracy of stroke, perfect copiousness, and above all a fresh and unflagging spontaneity, combine with a surprising invention, to give these stories a singular quality, of which we most effectively observe the real brilliance by comparing them with the too numerous imitations that their success has unhappily invited since.

    Voltaire 2007

  • The Yerkes-Dodson law was first published in R.M. Yerkes and J.D. Dodson, “The Relation of Strength of Stimulus to Rapidity of Habit-Formation,” Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology, 181909: 459–482.

    Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007

  • Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • The Yerkes-Dodson law was first published in R.M. Yerkes and J.D. Dodson, “The Relation of Strength of Stimulus to Rapidity of Habit-Formation,” Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology, 181909: 459–482.

    Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007

  • Rapidity, not rigidity: we need to prepare for rapid skills evolution

    What’s Your Skills Capital? | Impact Lab 2005

  • Rapidity of execution seems much admired among them, and the music is pleasant to the ear.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • Rapidity and precision are part of what give insular evolution its special loony charm.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

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