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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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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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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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
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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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It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can't manage your way out of.
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She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.
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No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
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And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
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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.
