Harvey Penick Quotes

I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.

Harvey Penick

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• My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • People
  • Way
  • Most

• On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Unexpected

• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Picture
  • Company
  • Wait

• If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Country
  • Knowledge
  • Start

• I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • People
  • Why
  • Enjoy

• I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Sell

• You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • You
  • Military
  • Just

• I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Book
  • Help
  • Self

• Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Always
  • Something
  • Authority

• The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • World
  • Better

• I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Good
  • Faith

• You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • Live

• I love North Carolina.

  

  Tyler Hilton

• I've been an 'Office' fan from day one. I knew Steve Carell in Chicago back in the day, so I started watching to support a Chicago guy and immediately got hooked on that show.

  

  Jim O'Heir
  • Guy
  • Support
  • Chicago

• Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show.

  

  Danny Masterson
  • Long
  • Real
  • Cool

• We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • God
  • Friends

• Nobody has to give me permission to write.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Write
  • Give
  • Permission

• If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

  

  Ray Davies The Kinks
  • Life
  • Done
  • Single

• Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • High
  • Game

• You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Government
  • Identity
  • Cards

• You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.

  

  Odetta Holmes
  • Life
  • Society
  • Die

• When financial sectors are small and capital is mobile, floating exchange rates spell massive currency volatility. When a lot of foreign capital flows in, a freely floating exchange rate rises sharply, wreaking havoc for domestic banks and exporters alike.

  

  Zanny Minton Beddoes
  • Currency
  • Capital
  • Exchange

• I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.

  

  Harvey Penick
  • Basketball
  • Golf shot