Ernie Els Quotes
You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for millions of years, accompanying the human race since the early days of our evolution.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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I don't just train to be a participant. I train to come up big in big moments. That's when I know I've got to roll the sleeves up.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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I know that I have a special stomach.
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When someone gets passed that mic, and they know deep down inside that they wanna say something or sing something or produce something, but they don't do that, it's like killing your musical life.
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I would read all day if I could.
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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We don't really see a lot of comedic moments in '24.' In fact, I haven't seen all of it, but from what I have seen, I don't know if I've ever laughed at anything that anyone has done on '24.'
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Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.
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He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.
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There can be no faith without risk.
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The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them.
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I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.
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You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.
