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• One of the first things they teach you in Driver's Ed is where to put your hands on the steering wheel. They tell you put 'em at ten o'clock and two o' clock. Never mind that . I put mine at 9:45 and 2:17. Gives me an extra half hour to get where I'm goin'.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Hands, Two

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Asking the front wheels of a car to do their normal job of steering while handling more than 170 is like asking a man to wire a plug while juggling. Penguins. While making love. To a beautiful woman while on fire, on stage. In front of the Queen. It's all going to go wrong.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Beautiful, Jobs, Queens

  "Top Gear", July 12, 2009.

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• Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.

  Bobby Bowden

  Football, Son, College

  Bobby Bowden, Steve Bowden (2001). “The Bowden Way: 50 Years of Leadership Wisdom”, p.121, Taylor Trade Publications

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• I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ... there are threads that are continuous and hold everything together and a major thread is country music.

  Neil Young

  Music, Country, Ideas

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• Imagine driving a car that isn't working well. When you step on the gas the car sometimes lurches forward and sometimes doesn't respond. When you blow the horn it sounds blaring. The brakes sometimes slow the car, but not always. The blinkers work occasionally, the steering is erratic, and the speedometer is inaccurate.
  You are engaged in a constant struggle to keep the car on the road, and it is difficult to concentrate on anything else.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Struggle, Blow, Car

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• Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.

  Primo Levi

  Fate, Omission, Honest

  Primo Levi (1987). “The Wrench”

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• I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension is produced by the skillful use of the force of the wind, and the steering, in any direction, is the result of skillful manoeuvres; so that by a moderate wind a man can, with an aeroplane, un- provided with any motor whatever, rise up into the air and direct himself at will, even against the wind itself.

  Louis Pierre Mouillard

  Men, Air, Eagles

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• If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles – but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature that.

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Car, Able, Wheels

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• I used to kiss things all the time. I would have to kiss everything, just about everything. The headboard on my bed, the steering wheel in my car. I think it was an OCD thing.

  Rich Fulcher

  Kissing, Thinking, Car

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and alive, simply driving the car going where I need to go, on time and in time. A still point of the turning world. With that awareness, I bring my attention into my body, and the body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

  Roger Housden

  Fall, Breathing, Hands

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of production, that sometimes we can't focus on our main job, which is steering the performances to create the whole film.

  Whit Stillman

  Jobs, Focus, Directors

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For example, there's some play in the steering column before it engages as you're turning the wheel.

  Ian Bogost

  Thinking, Play, Important

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Cars are like children: It's hard to say that any one is more special than the other. There are little things about each car that you come to love, whether it's the look, the steering wheel, the way it drives, or even the way it drives differently when you put the top up. They all have identities; they have spirits and characteristics that are truly endearing in some way.

  Ralph Lauren

  Children, Car, Identity

  "5 Questions with Ralph Lauren". Road & Track Interview, www.roadandtrack.com. May 12, 2011.

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• The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.

  Philippa Perry

  Creativity, Chaos, Middle

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  May, Daily Life, Clear

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• Wearing shorts is a huge perk. I think it's probably one of the reasons people become mailmen. You also get to drive in that vehicle that should be illegal in the United States, where the steering wheel is on the other side. They have no rules! They are the punk rock of government jobs.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I'm just remembering myself at 22 or 23. I was all engine and no steering. (Laughter) I had the wheels but I had no steering. I do think it's true that when you're younger, you're more likely to listen to all the naysayers, and people are always telling you how you ought to behave and what kind of job you should get and how you should look.

  Anna Quindlen

  Jobs, Laughter, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him. The producer, director and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it's a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it's a flop.

  Ben Hecht

  Stars, Jobs, Writing

  "Let's Make the Hero a MacArthur". Book by Ben Hecht, 1998.

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• I have a range of scenarios. One of them is a chaos, that what could happen is Congress does step up a little bit and the administration is paralyzed. And we go through all kinds of constitutional crises, impeachment or the 25th Amendment removal process. Another frightening scenario is Donald Trump is steering his way to a series of international confrontations at the same time as he's appeasing Russia.

  David Frum

  Russia, Littles, Way

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know - didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic. I suddenly understood why my friends, who I'd thought where slightly backward, had been so addicted to these children's books. They're like crack.

  Jason Isaacs

  Children, Book, Sitting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Replacing it with a thought. I sometimes think, "What the hell. I have four working limbs right now. I'm winning just to even have the privilege of this experience!" Steering my brain onto this track of thought begins the process of being grateful for the lesson and returns my mind to a more peaceful place.

  Graham Shiels

  Grateful, Thinking, Winning

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• God is in charge, waiting for His people to challenge the rulers of the earth and take the steering wheel from them, ... the battle for the earth is currently going on.

  Gary North

  People, Waiting, Challenges

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• The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver and the machine - is our spirit or heart.

  Dallas Willard

  Heart, Buttons, Different

  Source: renovare.org

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• We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.

  Robert Lowell

  Tunnels, Light, Hands

  'Since 1939' (1977).

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• It's pretty amazing to see a guy, while steering at the wheel, suddenly raise his little 300 dollar German camera with one hand and snap something that's on the move in front of him, and through an unwashed windshield at that. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958)

  Jack Kerouac

  Moving, Hands, Guy

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