Sunday, June 10, 2007

Life extends in his beliefs

Watching second times of the documentary tape of Ayrton Senna's Racing Is In My Blood.
I strongly sensed the passion of learning and challenging himself through his life. Like he said, he put his personality into race. He was racing with his mind, his body, his psychic, and beyond. " By focusing and absorbing your body and mind into the racing, only by doing it, you learn about yourself," said Senna. As Senna recalled, "during racing, you commit yourself, no compromise." "When you give more, you find more." "During racing, you need to have a clear mind to know when to be aggressive, when to do calculating, when to give, and when to hold." To me, this is the essence of developing the sense of photographing.

After Senna's death it was discovered that he had donated millions of dollars of his personal fortune to children's charities, a fact that during his life he had kept secret. In the documentary film "The Right to Win" made in 2004 as a tribute to Senna, Frank Williams notably recalls that as good a driver as Senna was, ultimately "he was an even greater man outside of the car than he was in it."
Senna died at the age of 34 but his beliefs and passions are continuing passed and installing to people's mind.

Senna's famous quotes:(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayrton_Senna)

"I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me."

"My car quit so I parked it." (after retiring from the 1988 Monaco Grand Prix)

"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose."

"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit'. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."

"One particular thing that Formula-1 can provide you, is that you know you're always exposed to danger. Danger of getting hurt, danger of dying. This is part of your life, and you either face it in a professional, in a cool manner, or you just drop it, just leave it and don't do it anymore really. And I happen to like too much what I do to just drop it, I can't drop it."

"Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else."

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