"Whether advanced driver training helps drivers in the long term is one of those controversial and unresolved mysteries of the road, but my eye-opening experience at Bondurant raises the curious idea that we buy carsâ€”for most people one of the most costly things they will ever ownâ€”with an underdeveloped sense of how to use them. This is true for many things, arguably, but not knowing what the F9 key does in Microsoft Word is less life-threatening than not knowing how to properly operate antilock brakes."

-- Tom Vanderbilt

#Eye Quotes #Keys Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The self is the modern substitute for the soul.”
“'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.”
“We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on.”
“We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.”
“They strip-searched me!" he burst out. "Me! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud!”

Source : Julia Golding (2008). “Dragonfly”, p.257, Marshall Cavendish
“A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.”
“The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.”

Source : Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.9, SPCK
“As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!”

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