Jack Nicklaus Quotes

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

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• Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Today

• I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Cowboy
  • Hat

• Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Play
  • Politics

• I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • World
  • Dream
  • Movies

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Ideas
  • Idea
  • Wealth

• Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Age
  • Society

• The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Real
  • Debate

• My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Me
  • Dad

• I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Team
  • Personal

• I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Men
  • May
  • Problem

• We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Exist
  • Defeat
  • Possibilities

• The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Heart
  • Head
  • Worked

• One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Work
  • Need
  • Employees

• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

  

  Mae West
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Unless

• I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Never

• Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Beginning

• What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually – to look in the mirror and not be ashamed – has been very important in not relapsing.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Important
  • Ashamed
  • Emotionally

• Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Need

• When I started working in film, I loved photography, I loved the image, I loved telling the story within a frame, but as I started playing around with film and video, it was like, 'Oh my god.' You just have so much more to play with.

  

  Lynn Shelton
  • God
  • Photography

• Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?

  

  Karen Horney
  • Me
  • Thought
  • Knows

• This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Work
  • Me
  • Interested

• Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
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