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Daily Inspiration Quote by Ayrton Senna

"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"

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Senna frames performance as a flirtation with the edge, then a small, almost mystical breakthrough: you hit the limit, and the limit moves. It’s an addictive idea for any culture that worships “pushing boundaries,” but in his mouth it lands differently because his job was literally to surf the boundary between control and catastrophe at 190 miles per hour. The line isn’t motivational poster fluff; it’s an internal mechanic of elite risk. He’s describing the moment when fear becomes data, when repetition turns panic into pattern recognition.

The phrase “something happens” is doing heavy lifting. He refuses to romanticize it with talk of destiny or genius, yet he also won’t reduce it to mere technique. That vagueness mirrors the lived reality of high-speed mastery: the best drivers can explain braking points and setup changes all day, but the final click - the willingness to commit earlier, to trust grip you can’t fully verify - is half psychology, half faith.

Notice the inventory of tools: “mind power,” “determination,” “instinct,” “experience.” It’s a four-legged table. Instinct alone is recklessness; experience alone is caution. Senna insists that flight comes from stacking the rational (experience), the visceral (instinct), and the moral (determination) under a disciplined mind. In motorsport, “fly very high” is both euphoric and ominous: a beautiful metaphor that, given Senna’s fatal crash, reads like an unintentional epitaph for a sport where transcendence and consequence share the same racing line.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Senna, Ayrton. (2026, January 17). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-so-you-touch-this-limit-something-happens-and-29981/

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Senna, Ayrton. "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." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-so-you-touch-this-limit-something-happens-and-29981/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"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." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-so-you-touch-this-limit-something-happens-and-29981/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Ayrton Senna

Ayrton Senna (March 21, 1960 - May 1, 1994) was a Celebrity from Brazil.

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