F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

I can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can’t really measure degrees of difficulty.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

I’m loving my role as a McLaren Young Driver, spending time in the simulator at the McLaren Technology Centre and attending some Grands Prix with the team.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

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.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

My favourite car I drove in the ‚shoot out‘ at Silverstone was the 2016 Mercedes DTM car. I loved every moment in it, the downforce being particularly surprising.

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.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we’re ever likely to do that is by going into space.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

To be announced as a race driver for McLaren is a dream come true.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

‚Speed‘ and ‚Point Break‘ were a lot of running and jumping, and then ‚The Matrix Trilogy‘ had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.