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Bright ideas Quote by Carroll Smith

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“We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driver/engineer I ever knew once told me that he reckoned that about 20% of his bright ideas worked.”

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The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance.

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He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.

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In order to win, you have to be aggressive - with your car, with the racetrack, and with the competition. But you don't have…

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The price for men in motion is the occasional collision...

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If you have complete control over the damned thing, you're not going fast enough.

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At some point in every racer's life he has to make his peace with cheating. I do not approve of cheating ... at all.…

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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…

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Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis.

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Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.

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The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.

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Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.

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The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought.

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I am interested in a constructive approach, which looks at how wealth can be created using bright ideas that will help India prosper.

Vivek Agnihotri

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We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.

Cyril Ramaphosa

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Even students from rural India may have bright ideas. They need to be tapped.

Shiva Ayyadurai

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If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.

William Lashner

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Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

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Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into…

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You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of…

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It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.

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Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

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It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright…

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The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till…

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Soul Gathers Force It is possible, when the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can form no bright ideas of the perfection and…

William Ellery Channing

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