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.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

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 always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

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.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

Of two evils, choose neither.

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

I’m definitely more one of the drivers who would want to do Daytona, Le Mans, and the Indy 500.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

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.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I don’t think I would run for president.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

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.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

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.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

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.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

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

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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.