Betsy Rawls Quotes

I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.

Betsy Rawls

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• Golf
• Perfection

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• One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • World
  • Great
  • Stand

• I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.

  

  Larry King
  • Doing
  • Questions
  • Asking

• Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Live
  • Real
  • Together

• I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Creative
  • Plan

• I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Way
  • Me
  • Better

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Community
  • Value

• I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Remember
  • Words

• My favourite smell is horses. In fact, most of the time, I do smell like horses.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Time
  • Smell
  • Favourite

• When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Great
  • Music
  • God

• I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Up
  • Science
  • Being

• People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Great
  • Influence
  • Welcome

• When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Gold
  • Chinese
  • Coming

• A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Characters
  • Heroes
  • Lot

• The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Children
  • Learning

• I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • English
  • Back
  • Wing

• I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Home
  • Run
  • Superstition

• A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Plague
  • Eminence
  • Stares

• I stand before you today heart broken, I know history and I love this country ...God blessed this country and it took sacrifice because even though they were endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that's an inheritance. And if you are not willing to fight for you inheritance, even when you leave your children, if they won't fight for it, they don't keep it. Mean greedy evil people will take it away.

  

  Louie Gohmert
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Time
  • Reading

• Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Time
  • Done
  • Society

• I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.'

  

  Yishan Wong
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.

  

  Betsy Rawls
  • Game
  • Golf
  • Perfection