Motivation

[Garage Dog 65]

Reading and listening to threads here and interviews over on V8TV and keep hearing interesting mottos, sayings, and/or rule-o-thumb type one liners.

Thought it would be interesting to build a string of them for fun (and keep my mind off payroll, budgets, ops stats - and biz crap like that)

Heard Tracy Weaver say this one - Make it look simple

Frank said something like this - The last 5% ends up taking 55% of all your time

Others out there you can think of that would be good signs on the garage motivation/inspiration bulletin board ??

[race-rodz]

speed, quality, or price...... pick any 2

[Garage Dog 65]

Chip's father Sam Foose (according to the Mothers commercial) - Pay attention to the details !

[Garage Dog 65]

Speed costs - How fast you wanna go ?

[Garage Dog 65]

Drive it like you stole it - or - Drive it like it's stolen

[Garage Dog 65]

Mike Redpath's (Musclerodz) signature tag - Ignorance breeds Stupidity

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

-Ray Liotta

"Fack you pay me"

[70TWO NOVA]

"cubic inches=cubic dollars"

racing an import is like the special olympics, even if you win you're still retarded!

[chicane]

"Beat to fit... paint to match" - Mr. Guldstrand 1993

[PRRC]

A man that's motivated will find a way. A man that's not will find an excuse!

[HRBS]

If you have to ask "How Much", then you probably can't afford it !

[Yard Dawg]

"Nothing can be done that can't be done over again!"

"If it was easy, everybody would do it."

[RaceMan]

Winning is everything!!

or 2nd place is first loser!!

Winning isn't everything (that one just sucks)

Watch your pennies your dollors will take care of themselves :question:

[Rybar]

No matter how much money you spend, another guy will spend more! :lol:

[chicane]

"Drive fast... take chances" - J. Bittle 1987

[Yard Dawg]

"More work must be accomplished before no progress can be declared"! :willy:

:D

[Ummgawa]

Beatings will continue until Morale improves....

[BigVin]

It's a poor rat that has but one hole.

[BigVin]

Luck is the residue of hard work.

[70gotboost]

If you have to ask the question, you already know the answer.

[BigVin]

Puty and paint make a carpenter what he aint.

[JamesJ]

no replacement for displacement...

except revs

[Garage Dog 65]

Someday, I will remember all my experiences - and not just my dreams.

[bucks69]

A fool and his money shall soon part company

[Garage Dog 65]

Melinda Howell (Bill Howell's better half) said:

The next thing you buy - better have a bed in it.......

THANKS Melinda !

:lol:

[Buick Motorsports]

"If you had just one shot, one opprotunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in just one moment, would you capture it or just let it slip?"

[cheezer]

Lead, follow or get out of the way


cheezer

[wiedemab]

"Never whittle toward yourself or piss against the wind"

[sick65]

You can't teach cool.

[Yard Dawg]

"If you can't do it well, then enjoy doing it poorly".

[dave96dcm]

It ain't cheap to be cool.

[Steve Chryssos]

He who goes to bed with itchy behind, wakes up with smelly fingers.

[Steve Chryssos]

Research and data will only get you so far. You will not have all the answers until you actually drive the sucker.

[Mick Mc]

Technically, anything is possible


Mick

[RedRyder]

Less Talk, More Rock!!!

[Buick Motorsports]

“Don't put off until tomorrow what can be done today.”

[XcYZ]

Here's a good one as an Admin/Mod: I'll instigate & moderate while you debate, demonstrate and articulate.

[Diognes56]

-=Let them hate as long as they fear=- :yes:

David

[Ummgawa]

"You F@#ked up, you trusted us!":rofl:

[Garage Dog 65]

Jewel (singer/songwriter) - The things you fear are undefeatable not by their nature - but by your approach.

She could have been a fabricator huh ! (and an attractive one to IMO)

:lol:

[V8TV]

This one - (and pic) - is on our shop wall:

Failure is not an option!

- Gene Kranz

http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Kranz.jpg

[GM Muscle]

"dont talk about it, be about it"

[Ummgawa]

"I've got dozens of friends

and the fun never ends.

That is as long as I'm buyin'"


Thanks you STYX

[rwhite692]

Here's a couple:

My Dad used to say (on life):

"We're not here for a LONG time...We're here for a GOOD time."

On Money:

"Money goes where its wanted....and stays where its well treated."

[BigVin]

sh#t happens its what you do next that counts.

[Ummgawa]

"I've been younger a whole lot longer than you have been older"

[Diognes56]

In Billy Gibbon's words - “As Lightnin’ Hopkins said, ‘The rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel.’ Instant realization that cars and guitars was where it was at. But what made ‘em faster than you and me? Hot-roddin’.”

David

[Garage Dog 65]

Why not go out on a limb? - Isn't that where the fruit is?

[Garage Dog 65]

Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.

[ArisESQ]

how about hanging this on your shop wall:

http://images.despair.com/products/demotivators/gettowork.jpg


or what about this beauty:

http://images.despair.com/products/demotivators/procrastination.jpg

[Garage Dog 65]

Never track a car you can't afford to walk away from !

[vinz68]

Don't forget the 5 P's , Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance......

[redfire69]

You gotta break some eggs if you want to make an omlet!

(how old is that?:lol: )

[70 chevelle]

It is not enough to be alive , one must live!, Zora Arkus Duntov used that. I think.

[70 chevelle]

If it don't fit, make it.

[70 chevelle]

You can't fix stupid.

[70 chevelle]

No Brains , No Problems.

[tjbruning]

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1756/fabricationmotivationre8.jpg

[silver63c10]

"Bite off more than you can chew and chew like hell!"

One of my favorites lately (while working and going to school full time :lol:)

[John S]

"Don't let your alligator mouth overload your hummingbird a$$"

[will69camaro]

Friend talking about a rival that spun off track,

"His Ray Charles driving skills couldn't keep up with his Mario Andretti pedals."

Another real motivator you hear often is, "Anything worth doing is worth doing well."

or:
"If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all."

And for the "motivational posters" posted...These two are my favorites.

http://images.despair.com/products/demotivators/failure.jpg

http://images.despair.com/products/demotivators/misfortune.jpg

[Garage Dog 65]

How much is a bag is of groceries ? - It depend on what you put in the bag that makes it expensive....

Rodger @ www.ironworksspeedandkustom.com

[Beach Cruiser]

My dad always would tell me:
"if you don't have time to do it right the first time, you don't have time to do it over!"

[Garage Dog 65]

I'm glad I'm not an Engineer - then I'd have to follow the rules...

Carroll Shelby

[DG.]

Got a sentence on the inside of my workplace door:

"Love it, or leave it The Hell alone"


Helps me when I'm starting to think I'd rather be somewhere else :)

[porkchop]

Talk is cheap,performance is expensive.Also, Just because it fits does't mean it looks good.

[Blake Foster]

Why not go out on a limb? - Isn't that where the fruit is?

Ain't that the down right truth!!!

"Life is a RIP OFF if you EXPECT to get what you want" Joe Montana

"What you are willing to do will determine where you are willing to go"

"When working to excell at something, it is not enough to do what is expected"

" Imposible" is just the ultimate level of difficulty
in 1950 people thought it was impossible to get to the moon, 19 years later they did

"think BIG" see what is possible and MAKE it happen.

"Clear your mind of CAN'T"

[Garage Dog 65]

I guess it can be summed up by comparing a hammer to a nail gun. Sure you'll vent more frustration with a hammer, but you'll probably get more accomplished with the nail gun.

Posted by streetfytr68 - Steevo

[GHOSTDANCER]

Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying

[ohcbird]

sh!t or get off the pot...

You'll never miss the shots you don't take (Gretzky)

[DOOM]

Its your LIE tell it how ever you want....

Theirs always time to do it right the second time... :cheers:

Money talks mine says "GOOD BY"...

SURGEON GENERAL WARNING!! DO'NT BORROW MONEY IT CAUSES AMNESIA!!

[deuce_454]

if it aint broke... break it

[Garage Dog 65]

“The difference between Genius and Stupidity is – Genius has limits …”

Albert Einstein


:lol:

[Mick Mc]

Life happens while you're planning for the future.



Mick

[Mick Mc]

People think that a car is to get you from point A to point B,
the car IS THE point. Jesse James (maybe not these exact words)






Mick

[Greg from Aus]

He who dies with the most toys wins :thumbsup:

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

If your not living life on the edge, you are taking up space.

Its not the fall that kills you, it the sudden stop at the end.

[AM.MSCL]

Life is a Virgin because a Bitch is to easy!

Money does NOT buy intelligence but does bring out the idiots and gold diggers!

Thoughts for Racing:
If you don't break then you are not pushing it hard enough; If you break then you didn't build it strong enough.

You have to lose control every once in a while to find out the limits of your ability!

[Neil B]

Roosevelt's 'Man in the Arena' gets me every time. It's posted in many race transporters...

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

[mike23109]

Better to be quiet, and thought a fool, than to open your mouth and erase all doubt.

[dhondagod]

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good"


Opportunity is often missed because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison


Younger people are still laboring under the illusion that they can accomplish everything if they just move fast enough.


From whom much has been given, much is expected. -Luke 12:48


Chris:cool:

[amaronut]

measure with a micrometer, mark it with crayon, cut it with an axe

it's just a dumb old car

[americansupercarinc]

My father always said
If you find a job you love ,you will never work a day in your life

[Theresa]

"The greatest Oak was once just a little nut who helds its ground."