Jack Nicklaus Quotes
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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Sometimes compromise is painful.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
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Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.
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If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.
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You need to carry out very careful pre-feasibility and feasibility studies before you enter any crisis situation.
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The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them.
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You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
