The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.
("The Art of Racing in the Rain")
More Quotes from Garth Stein:
I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about doing the right thing, rather than doing what is most expedient. At that moment, honestly, I had grave doubts as to my ability to interact on such a level. I wondered if I could ever become the human I hoped to be.Garth Stein
Art of Racing in the Rain--Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.
Garth Stein
People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.
Garth Stein
The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.
Garth Stein
Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.
Garth Stein
The car goes where the eyes go.
Garth Stein
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