If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I’d call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I’d take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor’s room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

McLaren were one of the first teams I liked and supported.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

Imagination decides everything.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

I’m never on Twitter. I’m never on Instagram. And that’s not by choice: it’s just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain’t really been my focus.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Political courage is not political suicide.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.