Autopilot Quotes:

Life is not a journey you want to make on autopilot.

- Paula Rinehart

topic: Journey, Want, Life Is, Autopilot

When you’re living by default, you’re automatically reacting to life in habitual ways, many of which may be limiting you and your life. In contrast, living deliberately means making more conscious and constructive life choices. When you’re living deliberately, you’re living from a position of responsibility; you’re making choices with greater awareness. You’re taken yourself off autopilot, so you’re better prepared to align your actions with the results you want to achieve.

- Lauren Mackler

topic: Taken, Mean, Responsibility, Making Choices, Autopilot

One study says that 90 percent of our everyday behavior is based on our habits. . . That means how we treat people, how we spend our money, what we watch, what we listen to - 90 percent of the time, we're on autopilot. We do what we've always done.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Mean, Discipline, People, Autopilot

habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

- Diane Ackerman

source: Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.119, Vintage

topic: Passion, Thug, Habit, Autopilot

We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another.

- Jerry Andrus

topic: Eye, Brain, Mind, Autopilot

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

- Bertrand Piccard

topic: Habit, Reacting, Interest, Autopilot

Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. And it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day.

- Chris Hardwick

source: Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.81, Penguin

topic: Long Ago, Brain, Wake Up, Too Much Work, Autopilot

The way an aircraft flies - that is the way the strategy works. Most of the time the plane is on autopilot, and does a great job of flying itself. Every once in a while it is necessary for the pilot to jump in.

- Roy Niederhoffer

topic: Jobs, Flying, Pilots, Aircraft, Autopilot

The times when I am running the best are when it feels effortless. The body is on autopilot, doing what you have trained it to do.

- Perdita Felicien

topic: Running, Track, Body, Autopilot

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

- Elon Musk

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Car, Google, Tesla, Autopilot

The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.

- Abby Sunderland

topic: Running, Eye, Islands, Abby, Keel

The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.

- Joan Didion

source: FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 25, 2011

topic: Mean, Thinking, Practice, Lazy Thinking, Autopilot

As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.

- Matthew Perry

topic: Actors, Worst, Autopilot

Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is routine. In a Boeing as much as an Airbus. And they make better work of it than any pilot can. You're not supposed to be the blue-eyed hero here. Your job is to make decisions, to stay awake, and to know which buttons to push and when. Your job is to manage the systems.

- Bernard Ziegler

topic: Jobs, Hero, Adventure, Airbus, Boeing

The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its danger files and ancient bag of tricks.

- Diane Ackerman

topic: Creativity, Ideas, Worry, Fugue, Floats

Put your financial life on autopilot as a form of 'forced' saving.

- Suze Orman

topic: Saving, Financial, Form, Autopilot

Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.

- Alexa Von Tobel

source: "The Great Debate: To Automate or Not" by Alexa von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

topic: Attention, Goes On, Pay, Personal Finance, Autopilot

There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.

- James Wolk

topic: Drama, Dancing, Joy, Autopilot

I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.

- Abby Sunderland

source: "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.

topic: Ocean, Broken, Capes, Drifting, Autopilot

I'd be lying if I said I went into any project with any premeditated ideas of what's gonna happen or what's gonna be perceived as a result of it. I just kinda work on autopilot and then, when it's done, it's done and I have more of an internal sense of when that is. And then I leave it up to the audience to decide if one's better than the other.

- Devin Townsend

topic: Lying, Ideas, Done, Autopilot

I was terrified of vault, like literally I hated it. I had a fear of running as fast as I could at a solid object, which is I think a normal fear to have because nobody would really want to do that. Once I got over the fear of running into the table I just kind of relaxed and now it's like autopilot. I love it.

- Alicia Sacramone

topic: Running, Thinking, Vaults, Autopilot