Ethel Smyth Quotes
Night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.
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Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health and finances, their family and friends.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
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When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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3D printing is going to transform our societies, our freedoms and our sense of security.
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It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.
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Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.
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The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.
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We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.
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I can't sleep with my make-up on. There is something about it. It doesn't matter what time it is; I just can't do it.
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Life isn't a 24/7 merry go round. If it were, you wouldn't get the 7 hours of sleep necessary to keep you fit and sane.
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This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.
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Night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.
