Motor Quotes - Page 7

• At the start of each year I sit down and look at both calendars and plan it that way. Obviously sometimes there are some overlaps but I have to be organised. At the moment motor racing is taking precedence and I have been quite lucky this year in picking and choosing.

  Liz Halliday

  Motor Racing, Years, Down And

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or shell in place of a dagger or a battle-axe.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Horse, Science, Men

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• The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Size, Planning, Economy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.96, Princeton University Press

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• No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Grandparent, Return, Privilege

  john kenneth galbraith (1971). “the new industrial state”

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• There are many different types of prioritites in Motor Racing, the first...being how much you are willing to sacrifice in order to get to where you want to go.

  Carroll Smith

  Sacrifice, Order, Motor Racing

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• Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you reach teh top levels of professional motor racing you will achieve more results by optimizing the package that you have than by redesigning it.

  Carroll Smith

  Motor Racing, Important, Balance

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• When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Real, Thinking, Squares

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• Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Horse, People

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Years

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.

  Carroll Smith

  Winning, Race, Torque

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• A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life distribution is more important than income distribution. [And quality of life includes] a living environment as free of motor vehicles as possible.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Motor Vehicles, Cities, Important

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• To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Heart, Humming

  1928 'Letter fromParis to Comrade Kostorov on the Nature of Love' (translated by Samuel Charteris).

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• Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and this is where rules come into existence as soon as a balance is established between adaptation and assimilation, the course of conduct adopted becomes crystallized and ritualized. New schemas are even established which the child looks for and retains with care, as though they were obligatory or charged with efficacy.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Balance, Looks

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• Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Years, Car, Wish

  "Footnote on Cinema". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 260, 1967.

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• The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway is the perfect place for the Democratic Convention. You go around in circles, turn left every few seconds, and you end up right where you started.

  Jay Leno

  Circles, Perfect, Events

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• organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.

  James A. Michener

  Men, Organization, Church

  "Poland" by James A. Michener, (p.587), 1983.

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• Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.

  Bill Berry

  Thinking, Priorities, Brain

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• There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor skills, blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - the mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting, because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can’t control it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Loss, Men, Skills

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• There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Past, Magic Moments

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most robotic vacuum cleaners don't see their environment, have little suction, and don't clean properly. They are gimmicks. We've been developing a unique 360 vision system that lets our robot see where it is, where it has been, and where it is yet to clean. Vision, combined with our high speed digital motor and cyclone technology, is the key to achieving a high performing robot vacuum - a genuine labor saving device.

  James Dyson

  Unique, Technology, Keys

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• General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years.

  Harlow Curtice

  Years, General Motors, Good Years

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• I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.

  Barbara Kruger

  Power, Issues, Life And Death

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• The last thing I remember, I left with a girl on a motor bike that weighed 300 pounds.

  Rod Stewart

  Girl, Quality, Lasts

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• I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.

  Warren Zevon

  Drinking, Sleep, Oil

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• Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Weather

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