Walter Hagen Quotes

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Me
  • Hands
  • Blood

• All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Genius
  • Chaos
  • Mystery

• I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Real
  • Think
  • Care

• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Me
  • Find
  • Mad

• I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Brain
  • Helps

• If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Time
  • Control
  • Eyes

• Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Body
  • Healthy
  • Dancing

• Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Smart

• I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'

  

  FKA twigs
  • Want
  • Years
  • Period

• Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • World
  • Good
  • Reality

• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Remember
  • Words

• Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Mother
  • Sins
  • Beware

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Think
  • Human
  • Profound

• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Taken
  • Attitude

• At about 17, I decided I wanted to take kiteboarding seriously and compete, so my agents were like, 'Just keep sending in a few audition tapes anyway, just for good stuff.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Like
  • Seriously

• After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.

  

  Joe Namath
  • Different
  • Long
  • Fun

• Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion, pain, and (okay) sometimes enormous pleasure.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Pretty
  • Light
  • Pain

• It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Good
  • Music
  • Money

• However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Human

• There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Respect
  • Missing
  • Short