Harvey Penick Quotes

In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.

Harvey Penick

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• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • School
  • Reason
  • Prison

• People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Logical

• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Thought

• 'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Life
  • History

• I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • People
  • Live
  • Today

• The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Help
  • High
  • Energy

• I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they'll open up the door to other people. I'm in a position to open up the door to help other people do what I do.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool; it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've chilled.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Cool
  • Thought
  • Ride

• Sloan Gibson is doing a great job. We need to give him more power to terminate employees.

  

  David Jolly
  • Great
  • Job
  • Power

• Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

  

  Jim Talent
  • Good

• Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Faith
  • Forgiveness

• Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Bad
  • Attention
  • Habit

• Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • People
  • Death
  • Die

• For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Knows
  • Place
  • Fact

• My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Joke
  • Choke

• So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

  

  Penelope Keith
  • People
  • Work

• Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Game
  • Respect
  • Golf

• I like to play snooker, golf as well.

  

  John Terry
  • Golf

• If it's sports and women's golf, men's golf, and it's on TV, I'm watching it. I watched those ladies do what they do at such a high level, and she's obviously a big basketball fan and a fan of ours, too. So it was cool to have that interaction.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Golf
  • TV
  • Women's

• Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.

  

  Harvey Penick
  • Golf
  • Weaknesses
  • Strengths