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  • A parade looks like a bunch of people are excited about being in traffic.

    People   Looks   Excited  
    Twitter post from Oct 17, 2013
  • It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.

    "Get Inspired: Q&A with Deepak Chopra". Interview with Crystal Tate, www.womansday.com. December 11, 2009.
  • Transport drives me crazy. I find myself on this constant conveyor belt and the planes, buses, traffic jams, ugh.

    Crazy   Jam   Ugh  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.

  • There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.

    Jam   Miles   Traffic  
    FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 21, 2014
  • If you are trying to get from here to there, and you already are late, you know that you are late, and yet you are aligned with the present moment while you are stuck in a traffic jam. You are totally accepting of the moment.

    Trying   Jam   Moments  
    Source: rayhemachandra.com
  • There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.

  • Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.

    Party   Waiting   Jam  
  • It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.

    Memories   War   Cancer  
  • On Max Yasgur’s six hundred acres, everyone dropped their defenses and became a huge extended family. Joining together, getting into the music and each other, being part of so many people when calamity struck — the traffic jams, the rainstorms — was a life-changing experience. None of the problems damaged our spirit. In fact, they drew us closer. We recognized one another for what we were at the core, as brothers and sisters, and we embraced one another in that knowledge.

    Michael Lang (2009). “The Road to Woodstock”, p.4, Harper Collins
  • If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.

    Past   Car   Skins  
  • The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

  • It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.

    Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.92, Simon and Schuster
  • [Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take, regardless of traffic jams, Tube strikes or leaves on the line. It provides excellent exercise. It does not pollute the atmosphere. It does not clog up the streets.

  • We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have traffic jams, parking problems , and we-d do a lot better to look up a little bit because there is that great aerial highway that-s always ready to go, you Don't have to pave it and the benefits are very great.

    Two   Looks   Jam  
  • Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

    Fear   Needs   Jam  
    Eileen Wilks (2011). “Death Magic”, p.25, Penguin
  • I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.

    Piano   Despair   Want  
  • Everything that happens to you is self-created. Whenever you're responding to any situation, whether it's a sip of coffee, or a traffic jam, or a love note, or criticism from a boss, or rainy weather, you're in fact responding to a signal that you generated within yourself.

    Coffee   Weather   Self  
  • The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams

    Car   Jam   Traffic  
  • I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

    Larry King, Greg King, Peter Occhiogrosso (1989). “Tell It to the King”, Jove
  • There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

  • Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.

    Cancer   Jam   Body  
  • Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

    Home   Night   Jam  
    Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.92, U of Nebraska Press
  • Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.

    Moving   Jam   Comedy  
    "Jon Stewart, Faking It and Making It". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 22, 2005.
  • There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.

    Jam   Miles   Traffic  
    Brian Tracy (2004). “Getting Rich Your Own Way: Achieve All Your Financial Goals Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.95, John Wiley & Sons
  • I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

    FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 22, 2013
  • It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

    Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.101, Pan Macmillan
  • I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.

    John Grisham (2011). “Three Classic Thrillers 3-Book Bundle: The Firm, The Appeal, The Chamber”, p.299, Dell
  • If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

    People   Goal   Tolerance  
    Glennon Doyle Melton (2014). “Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life”, p.139, Simon and Schuster
  • See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience. (she steered clear of the traffic jam and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.) She embraces the undeclared possibility in what seems like just another ordinary day. (her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)

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