I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

If you look at me close enough, there’s a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don’t know if it’s my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

I raced with my brother from when I started to 2014 when I finished karting.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

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.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

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!

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

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

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

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

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

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.

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.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

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

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

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

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

I don’t race cars.