Driving Quotes - Page 38

• This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Knowledge, Progress, Desire

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1911). “Philosophy”

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• Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.

  Judy Biggert

  Drug, Physicians, World

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• There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Hero, Ambition, Excellence

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• Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up. It's all I've ever done, and there's something about being in that car.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Giving, Car, Done

  Interview with Jeff Gluck, www.sbnation.com. October 13, 2010.

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• Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Aerodynamics, Safe, Speed

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• Driving is the only thing I love about F1.

  Kimi Raikkonen

  Things I Love

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• It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.

  Charles Duhigg

  Real, Self Understanding, Effort

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business". Book by Charles Duhigg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2012.

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• There is enough oil out there for world demand. It is true that a lot of what's driving oil prices up right now is not the lack of supply. There's enough supply.

  Barack Obama

  Oil, World, Demand

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• I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Mean, Golf, Hard Times

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• People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It's actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights. You think you're going to Toledo but you're actually going to Miami and you might not have enough gas so you might need to buy gas from someone who might take you out if you aren't driving well

  Ben Silbermann

  Night, Thinking, People

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• Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john. You can even read while you’re driving, thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Opportunity

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does.

  Helen Wills

  Games, Doe, Watches

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• I'm Michael Schumacher. I don't need to test my driving ability.

  Michael Schumacher

  Needs, Tests, Schumacher

  "Barrichello on China Pole". news.bbc.co.uk. September 25, 2004.

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• Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.

  Tayari Jones

  Air, Skins, Body

  Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.53, Algonquin Books

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• Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving a van carrying a load of dead badgers.
  I mention this solely to remind you that linguists are not kidding when they say … that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.

  Geoffrey K. Pullum

  Marine, Bus Stops, Lasts

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• Our sport is in a changing of the guard right now. It happens every 10 or 15 years, and Brad is the leader of that change at the moment. Sometimes his words and outspokenness offend some folks, but he doesn’t back down from his comments. He doesn’t back down in his driving either, and when competitors see him coming in the rearview mirror, they have to be wondering what he’ll do and what he’s thinking. I think fans love that and gravitate to drivers like Brad.

  Darrell Waltrip

  Sports, Thinking, Mirrors

  "SPEED Quotes: Byrnes, McReynolds​, Petty, Waltrip Talk 2013 NASCAR Season", www.foxnews.com. February 8, 2013.

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• Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.

  James M. Cain

  Girl, Distance, Years

  James M. Cain (1982). “The Butterfly”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around earth-give me a place to go and I'll go.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Block, Tired, Space

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• The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase of manifestation than our physical plane, having other dimensions than the three to which we are habituated, and perceived by other modes of consciousness than those to which we are accustomed.

  Dion Fortune

  Three, Phases, Dimensions

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.17, Dion Fortune

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• The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food — Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend — the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.

  Langdon Winner

  Country, Civilization, Cities

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• I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.

  Frank Lampard

  Years, Relax, Use

  Interview with Rob Hobson, www.cfcnet.co.uk. August 10, 2005.

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• A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.

  R. D. Laing

  Children, Taken, Mad

  "The Politics of Experience". Book by Ronald David Laing, p. 58, 1967.

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• I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Opportunity, Self, Missing

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• Racecar driving is a lot like sex; all men think they're good at it.

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Men, Thinking

  "Top Gear" (Episode #13.7, 2009), (2002–).

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• Wake in the deepest dark of night and hear the driving rain. Reach out a hand and take a paw and go to sleep again.

  Charlotte Gray

  Rain, Sleep, Dark

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