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.
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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.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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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.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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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.
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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.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.
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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.
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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.
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I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.
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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.
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I love North Carolina.
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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.
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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.
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We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
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Nobody has to give me permission to write.
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There are some stories I want to tell that I think it'd be cool to see an African-American dude do.
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If I had to do it all over again, would I want my dad here? I would say no. Our world is in a better place because our father gave his life.
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You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.
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I have learned how to take votes where I had to hold my nose because I had to compromise - something that you learn to do, especially when you have been in the minority.
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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.
