Motor Quotes

• Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

  Barbara Johnson

  Patience, Optimism, Gears

  Barbara Johnson (2008). “When Your Child Breaks Your Heart: Help for Hurting Moms”, p.134, Revell

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• Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

  Lewis Mumford

  Cities, Car, Lovers

  "My Works and Days". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1979.

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• Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.

  Bill Gothard

  Gears, Stripping, Feels

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• What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Long, Giving, Car

  The Apple Cart (1930) act 1

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• Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.

  Ayn Rand

  Emotional, Mind, Fuel

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.964, Penguin

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• It's important to make an effort under any circumstance - stagnant, sickness, being in an unstable lifestyle, even when society is insane. You should consider such periods as an omen before you move. When you are stuck on something, it is important to hold to your purpose but not press onward against the current. When you can't move at all, try to concentrate, continuing forward as if in a boat switching to a stronger motor. The keiko that is most important when you cannot move is kage no keiko [shadow training].

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Moving, Effort, Training

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• The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.

  Ayn Rand

  Airplane, Artist, Men

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.72, Penguin

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• Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of words I want to be one with the blossoms and birds.

  Edgar Guest

  Nature, Bird, Care

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• Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running.  How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Running, Ordinary, Tools

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• It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.

  Nikola Tesla

  Memorable, Two, Discovery

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• And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Race

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• One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.

  Erich Warsitz

  Airplane, Electric Motors, Safety

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• Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

  Elon Musk

  Winning, Years, Car

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

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• With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

  Robert Orben

  Luck, General Motors, Ifs

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• Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.

  Laini Taylor

  Kissing, Brain, Desert

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• The rotating armatures of every generator and motor in this age of electricity are steadily proclaiming the truth of the relativity theory to all who have ears to hear.

  Leigh Page

  Science, Age, Ears

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• So, this is a rabbit, I thought. He sort of looks like Chester, only he's got longer ears and a shorter tail. And a motor in his nose.

  James Howe

  Rabbits, Tails, Looks

  Deborah Howe, James Howe (2011). “Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a man who couldn't live without me, a man who pictured my face when he closed his eyes, who loved me when I was a mess in the morning and when dinner was late and even when I overloaded the washing machine and burned out the motor. [My son] stares up at me as if I can do no wrong. I have always wanted someone who treats me the way he does; I just didn't know that I'd have to give birth to him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Morning, Eye, Son

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• Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus question: 2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?

  Brad Warner

  Motor Vehicles, Car, Drug

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect.

  Will Hutton

  Business, Keys, Prosperity

  Will Hutton (2011). “The State We're In: (Revised Edition)”, p.242, Random House

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• Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the CEO of Wal-Mart earns nine hundred times the wages of his average employee. Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder's family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40% of the US population: 120 million people.

  Tony Judt

  Home, Average, People

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.16, Penguin

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• In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.

  Henry Ford

  Business, Company, Ford Motor

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• Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.

  Ross Perot

  Change, Teaching, Elephants

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• Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created' in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore.

  Bob Beauprez

  Jobs, Children, Government

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• Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]....If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies, the lower half of the Pharaoh's body would be covered only by scotch tape.

  Dave Barry

  Christmas, Skills, Scotch

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