Kristensen Quotes

#1. The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.

Tom Kristensen

#2. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

Tom Kristensen

#4. In improv there are no mistakes, only beautiful happy accidents. And many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident.

Tina Fey

#5. I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

Jennifer Capriati

#6. I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.

Tom Kristensen

#7. There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past.

James Rozoff

#8. It's not like they can take anything from me,' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing to give. Nothin' but time, that is. And I been doin' time my whole life, one way or the other.

Edward Humes

#9. I definitely believe that if you stop working at relationships, they go away.

Ashton Kutcher

#10. I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.

Donald Knuth

#11. Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.

Tom Kristensen

#12. Retirement: A Time to Become Much More than You Have Ever Been

Ernie J Zelinski

#13. Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, so in the whole focus, the whole energy, you know that you cannot change the world and have a race two weeks later.

Tom Kristensen

#14. Contextualization is a good dance partner, but she should never be allowed to lead. Put her before the exegetical steps in your sequence of preparation, and problems will quickly emerge.

David R. Helm

#15. When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.

Haile Gerima

#16. We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

Carson McCullers

#17. I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.

James Douglas