Quotes from Garth Stein

To finish first, first you must finish

Kar udejanjamo je pred nami; sami oblikujemo svojo usodo.

No race has ever been won in the first corner," he said. "But plenty of races have been lost there.

Yes: the race is long—to finish first, first you must finish.

The car goes where your eyes go.

Dirka?i pravijo, da avto pelje v smer pogleda. Voznik, ki ne more odtrgati o?i od ograde, ko izgubi nadzor, se zaleti vanjo; voznik, ki pogleda na stezo, ko za?uti, da so zavore proste, si povrne oblast nad vozilom. Avto gre, kamor gredo o?i. Druga?e re?eno, kar udejanjaš, je pred tabo.

Ideally, a driver is a master of all that is around him, Denny says. Ideally, a driver controls the car so completely that he corrects a spin before it happens, he anticipates all possibilities. But we don't live in an ideal world. In our world, surprises sometimes happen, mistakes happen, incidents with other drivers happen, and a driver must react.

To live eveyday as if it had been stolen from death, that is jow I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to. When I am a person, that is how I will live my life.

To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am.

My soul has learned what it came to learn, and all the other things are just things. We can't have everything we want. Sometimes, we simply have to believe.

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?

The car goes where the eyes go.

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.