Wheels Quotes - Page 38

• You are the captain of your own ship; don't let anyone else take the wheel.

  Michael Josephson

  Captains, Ships

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• For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make this film. That's part of the pleasure and that's why I'm not a normal professional director.

  Pawel Pawlikowski

  Journey, Directors, Littles

  "Writer/Director Pawel Pawlikowski Talks IDA, Returning to Poland, His Visual Style, Shooting in Black in White, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 1, 2014.

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• At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.

  Randeep Hooda

  The End Of The Day, Cogs, Actors

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

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• Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.

  Garrison Keillor

  Car, Comfort, Dining

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• I remember learning to drive on my dad's lap. Did you guys ever do that? He'd work the brakes. I'd work the wheel. Then I went to take the driver's test and sat on the examiner's lap. I failed the exam. But he still writes to me. That's the really nice part.

  Garry Shandling

  Dad, Nice, Writing

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• The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things.

  David M. Shoup

  Mistake, Adventure, Fighting

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• I like a lot of wheels. If I could have eight wheels, I would.

  Jon Stewart

  Eight, If I Could, Ifs

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• Wheel of Fortune was an important SAT prep for me.

  Mo Rocca

  Important, Fortune, Sat

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• You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is to fight with the wheel and jam on the brakes, which is the quickest way to get killed. What you have to do is let go, and the car will right itself. It's the same when an orchestra loses its ensemble. You have to resist the temptation to semaphore, and let the orchestra find its own way back to the pulse.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Letting Go, Fighting, Winter

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• This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing is better than a great symbol of China, the Tao, the wheel of yin and yang that represents life. The universe is the harmony of opposites, because there is no water without fire, there is no female with no male, there is no night without day, there is no sun without the moon ... there is no good without evil! This symbol is perfect since the white and black are embracing each other; inside the white there is a black point and inside the black there is a white point.

  Tiziano Terzani

  Moon, Night, Opposites

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• Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way.

  Michael Josephson

  Way, Captains, Ships

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• Don't reinvent the wheel. Focus on winning one customer at a time. Be honest and sincere. Do what's right. There's nothing magical about this. That's been my guiding principle. To make it work, you have to live it every day. Make it your mindset.

  Robert Spector

  Winning, Guiding Principles, Focus

  Robert Spector, Patrick D. McCarthy (2012). “The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence: The Handbook For Becoming the "Nordstrom" of Your Industry”, p.46, John Wiley & Sons

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• Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the wheel goes round.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Thinking, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1650, Manonmani Publishers

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• Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fall, Light, Grumbling

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!

  Terence McKenna

  Dope, Men, He Man

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• Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

  Terry Pratchett

  Grease, Guilt, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.63, Random House

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• I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.

  Paul Walker

  Wish, Behinds

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• I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

  E. B. White

  Science, Views, Space

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers.

  Janet Yellen

  Cutting, Yale, Grease

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• The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Dubai, Oil, India

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• ...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

  Dante Alighieri

  Stars, Moving, Desire

  Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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• A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let's not kid ourselves - all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences.

  Tom Robbins

  Spring, Real, Book

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.121, Bantam

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• Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Women, Healing

  "Champion of her Sex - Miss Susan B. Anthony Tells the Story of her Remarkable Life to 'Nellie Bly'". Susan B. Anthony and Nellie Bly, New York World (p. 10), February 2, 1896.

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• The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fate, Men, Jail

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.68, Ballantine Books

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• Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.

  Hugh Laurie

  Fall, Blow, Piano

  "The Gun Seller". Book by Hugh Laurie, 1996.

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