Quotes from Garth Stein

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there. Still,

I cannot lie still. I cannot be alone with this. I need to scream and thrash, because it stays away when I scream. When I'm silent, it finds me, it tracks me down and pierces me and says, "Now I've got you! Now you belong to me!

A woman scorned, indeed! Kate Hepburn would smash her with a single blow and laugh while doing it.

The turn we were in was simply a state of existence for Denny. It was where we were, and he was happy to be there, and I could feel the joy emanating from him, the love of life. But his attention—and his intention—was far ahead, to the next turn and the one beyond that.

that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves. I

Learn to listen! I beg of you. Pretend you're a dog like me and listen to other people rather than steal their stories.

That's not just a dog, there. That's your yék. Your spirit helper. He came to protect you.

A race car driver must be very selfish. It is a cold truth: even his family must came second to the race.

The Weather Channel is not about weather; it is about the world! It is about how weather affects us all, our entire global economy, health, happiness, spirit. The channel delves with great detail into weather phenomena of all different kinds—hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes, monsoons, hail, rain, lightning storms—and they especially delight in the confluence of multiple phenomena.

Children are not chattel. they cannot be given away or traded in the marketplace.

I understood that a race car driver must be selfish. Success at any endeavor on an elite level demands selfishness.

I admire the female sex. The life makers. It must be amazing to have a body that can carry an entire creature inside. (I mean, other than a tapeworm, which I've had. That doesn't count as another life, really. That's a parasite and should never have been there in the first place.)

Vivir cada día como si se lo hubiésemos arrebatado a la muerte. Así quisiera vivir siempre.

La macchina va dove vanno gli occhi," the boy says. The champion laughs, then looks to the sky. "Si," he says. "The car goes where the eyes go. It is true, my young friend. It is very, very true.

He says racing is doing. It is being a part of a moment and being aware of nothing else but that moment. Reflection must come at a later time.

which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

the race isn't over until the checker flies.

Denny je bil skrušen. Zoe je bila skrušena. Eva je bila skrušena. Jaz sem bil zmrcvarjen. Tako zelo smo se približali veli?ini. Vohali smo jo in dišala je kot pe?en odojek. Vsi imamo radi vonj pe?enega odojka. Toda, ali je huje, da ga vohaš, ne da bi se gostil z njim, ali da ga sploh ne vohaš?

Un concepto tan simple, pero tan verdadero: tenemos ante nuestros ojos la respuesta a lo que preguntamos. Somos los creadores de nuestros propios destinos. Pero, actuemos intencionalmente o por ignorancia, nadie más que nosotros mismos es responsable de nuestros éxitos o fracasos.

I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience.

But racing in the rain is also about the mind! It is about owning one's own body. About believing that one's car is merely an extension of one's body. About believing that the track is an extension of the car, and the rain is an extension of the track, and the sky is an extension of the rain. It is about believing that you are not you; you are everything. And everything is you.

Kakor psi imajo tudi ljudje radi ponavljanje. Lov za žogo, dirkanje v krogu, drsanje po drsalnici. Kajti tako kot je vsaki? podobno, je tudi razli?no.

The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can overcome obstacles-preferably of his own making-in order to triumph. A hero without flaw is of no interest to an audience or to the universe, which, after all, is based on conflict and opposition, the irresistible force meeting the unmovable object.

I knew that once they identified her disease for her, once everyone around her accepted her diagnosis and reinforced it and repeated it back to her time and again, there was no way she could stop it. The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.