“The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.” ThinkingLittlesHelpingProblemCausesClearFocusMissingTelevisionListeningBecomingNewsConceptsAddRadioMythDrivingEaseGet AwayDriversDistractionRelativeThreateningFatigueDistractedInner LifeLureMultitaskingMulti TaskingTelevision News Author:Tom Vanderbilt
“So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.” IfsFeelsMatterHappensWaitingWonderBuildingListeningPrayingLimitsSittingDrivingThings HappenSellingBreathingBuyingGood TimesHelplessEarningStoppingBakingAggravation Book:Gospel Medicine Source: Gospel Medicine
“Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShowsTalkingListeningGoes OnSellsRadioDrivingServingBrutalControversyBostonJerkSponsorsTalk Radio Author:Tom Heinsohn
“Listening to music and driving - that's the best way to listen to music. You just kind of zone out. Driving's so futuristic - you're barely putting in any effort, and this huge machine is pummeling down a strip of concrete.” WayKindEffortHugeListeningMachinesDrivingBest WayZoneConcreteListening To MusicFuturistic Author:Galcher Lustwerk
“I was delivering pizzas at Domino's. I was 17 maybe. I liked it a lot. Just driving in the nice weather and listening to music.” NiceListeningDrivingWeatherListening To MusicPizzaDeliveringNice Weather Author:Tao Lin
“I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing, sky diving, driving at night.” PeopleIdeasNightSkyRocksListeningTypeActivityDrivingTalesChairsClimbingDivingKnittingRock Climbing Author:Glenn McQuaid
“To me 30 isn't old. But it's definitely the beginning of no longer young. Because you notice little subtle things happen to you. You'll be in your car driving around listening to the radio and hear stuff like, That's was an oldie from The Clash.” LittlesHappensYoungStuffCarListeningRadioDrivingThings HappenSubtleClashCar Driving Author:Dana Gould
“Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.” SometimesWaitingVoiceSuccessfulListeningBalanceEntrepreneurDrivingStayingPersistentInner VoiceBumpsSuccessful Entrepreneurs Author:Naveen Jain
“Rarely a producer gives me music and I write to it. I think that's too easy. Most of the time for me, it's on an elevator or in my car listening to absolutely nothing. I'll just be driving and then the lyrics birth.” ThinkingGivingWritingEasyCarListeningBirthGive MeDrivingProducersAbsolutely NothingElevators Author:Brooke Valentine
“I guess what attracted me about the philosophy aspect was that it was realistic. It didn't go off into the realm of imagination land, which I find a lot of religious teachings, actually almost every religious teaching does. I keep meaning to write this up as a blog post, but lately, while driving in my car I've been listening to a religious station that comes on out of Cleveland from the Moody Bible Institute.” WritingDoePhilosophyImaginationReligiousTeachingLandCarListeningAspectDrivingPostsRealmsStationsRealisticBlogsInstituteClevelandMoody Author:Brad Warner
“The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best time I've ever been to New York.” WorldNew YorkListeningDrivingCoastHighwaysPacificBest TimesVelvetVelvet Underground Author:Devendra Banhart
“I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could get on a car stereo. Once you get a car at that age, you're spending all the time you can away from home, sometimes just driving around aimlessly. Listening, or not even listening, but subconsciously soaking up this classic rock barrage.” SometimesHomeAgeSchoolRocksCarCollegeListeningHigh SchoolRadioSpendingDrivingAlternativesClassicAway From HomeSoakingClassic RockGood CollegeAlternative Rock Author:Craig Finn
“Being the recent accessibility of rare vinyl and cassette music via blogs, as well as the digital backlash which is driving more people to crave the tangible - most of these minimal wave releases are hand-numbered vinyl editions, which adds another level to the listening experience. They can listen to an LP and it's there for them to look at, examine its cover art, and hold whilst buying and downloading music in digital form remains such an ephemeral experience.” PeopleArtListeningWaveDrivingVinyl Author:Veronica Vasicka
“For me, promotional thing about some new album coming out destroys a lot of the excitement of making records. Records, movies, books - they're not supposed to be like math books. The purpose of them is to kind of take us out of ourselves and give us some sort of alternate experience or respite. To try to maximize the relationship of listening to a record through promotion is like experiencing driving a car by reading about stimulus programs. It kind of defeats the purpose.” GivingTryingKindBookPurposeReadingCarListeningProgramDefeatMathDrivingExcitementPromotion Author:Will Oldham
“When I write, it's intimate. I write in the car, and I don't even hear, like, ambulances driving past me because I'm in my car, listening to the music, writing. I record in an attic with no booth. It's not like I'm in the dark with candles, but it's like a house, a home, and I record like that. I think that plays into the music.” ThinkingWritingHomePastHouseDarkCarListeningDrivingIntimateCandle Author:Lupe Fiasco
“I remember the audition process for Xena: Warrior Princess; I was driving there and I was listening to The Cranberries' "Dreams," so I was thinking of that audition again recently with the sudden passing of Dolores O'Riordan, Cranberries singer. And I remember that song, I was like, "Okay, I can do anything" as I was driving onto the lot at Universal.” ThinkingDreamRememberSongListeningOkayDrivingWarriorPrincess Author:Selma Blair
“As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.” FeelsCitiesLonelinessListeningLonelyRadioDrivingLos AngelesIsolatedLayoutLonely Places Author:Jason Schwartzman