Traction Quotes

• There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction.

  Carroll Shelby

  Entrepreneur, Enough, Drivers

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• Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts.

  Geoff Thompson

  Wheels, Action

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• An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.

  Clayton Christensen

  People, Innovation, Done

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• So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Spinning, Wheels, Hell

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• When someone's got your rear tires off the ground, you don't have much traction.

  Kyle Petty

  Tire

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• Actually, you’re not famous at all. Maybe you’ll get some traction after you’re dead?

  Peter Orner

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• We broke something, I think it was traction.

  Carl Edwards

  Thinking, Car, Racing

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• With a larger wheel, you have more contact with the ground, so you have better traction whether you're braking or cornering or any of that stuff. Also, with bigger wheels, once you get them up to speed, they roll faster.

  Aaron Gwin

  Stuff, Wheels, Speed

  Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com.

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• If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction.

  John Yarmuth

  Opportunity, Voice, People

  "Sarah Palin’s Lame Media Strategy" by Rep. John Yarmuth, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2010.

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• The stage of investing that I do is seed stage, so it's really early. Here's a pair of founders who maybe have a prototype. They have a little bit of traction, maybe one employee, tops. At that stage, you really, really can only evaluate a company based on those founders and what they've been able to build. It's very, very team driven.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Team, Investing, Littles

  Source: www.fool.com

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• In Buddhism, we say reincarnation is the conscious taking of rebirth by a Bodhisattva, or by a high being, whereas rebirth, is what most people do. Rebirth is an involuntary process where they seek traction by finding a new body after their subtle mind loses the old one. There are two things commonly said about this. One- there is no evidence for it and two- if there is evidence, what's the mechanism which carries the consciousness from one life to another.

  Robert Thurman

  Buddhism, Two, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Salazar, Ken Salazar, who is a big advocate for the TPP and for fracking. So, you know, since when have we learned to believe what Hillary Clinton says? And just because something has been adopted in the Democratic Party platform, you know, it's a voluntary platform so it has absolutely no traction. This was about trying to buy back the [Bernie] Sanders supporters.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Believe, Trying

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.

  Jay Roach

  Enemy, Sometimes, One Thing

  Source: collider.com

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• We can`t allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

  Bernie Sanders

  Xenophobia, Racism, Gains

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• I bought a new book, '100 new ways to make love'. I ended up in traction - it was a misprint.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Book, Making Love, Way

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• To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm, while the movement itself slowed .  I first called this piece Mouvement symphonique. On reflection I found that a bit colorless. Suddenly, a rather romantic image crossed my mind, and when the work was finished, I wrote the title Pacific 231, which indicates a locomotive for heavy loads and high speeds (a type unfortunately disappeared, alas, and sacrificed to electric traction).

  Arthur Honegger

  Reflection, Giving, Mind

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• The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off!

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Democracy, World, Lectures

  "Top Gear: Series 5". TV Series, October 24, 2004.

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• There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so.

  Nick Cooper

  Business, Equity, Consumers

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• You get married, you start having responsibilities. It's really hard if your dream hasn't caught some traction by the time you're in your mid-to-late 20s. You want to provide for your family. I would say, the majority of people fall in that boat. They want to do something, but life gets in the way. And they're like "well, I'm going to get this job, and have safety and security."

  Jeremy Coon

  Dream, Jobs, Fall

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.

  L. Neil Smith

  Civilization, Doe, Popularity

  "Revenge of the Cookie Monster". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 31, 2010.

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• There's people that say “It's not fair You have all that stuff.” I wasn't born with it. It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you're new at this- and by “new at it.” I mean 15 years in, or even 20- you're just starting to grow traction. Young musicians believe they should be able to throw a band together and be famous, and anything that's in their way is unfair and evil. What are you, in your 20s, you picked up a guitar? Give it a minute.

  Louis C. K.

  Believe, Mean, Guitar

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• There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment. I found the experience of weightlessness to be one of the most fun and enjoyable, challenging and rewarding, experiences of spaceflight. Returning to Earth brings with it a great sense of heaviness, and a need for careful movement. In some ways it's not too different from returning from a rocking ocean ship.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Fun, Ocean, Thoughtful

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible.

  Paul Davies

  Ideas, Mars, Earth

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We must challenge to fight at every level, including Congress and to make that challenge political and to organize as a political party is how we get traction.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Fighting, Political

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Class, Gains, Energy

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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