George Pattison Quotes
Every stroke a tennis player plays is different, yet we perceive them as playing in a distinctive and unique way. It's what Heidegger called a certain 'how' of existing. It's ultimately always singular, and the double task of (a) getting it in view and (b) communicating it to others will inevitably be marked more often by failure than success!
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.
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Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
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The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
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'What happened?''Let’s just say my efforts to reprogram the weapon were not an unqualified success, shall we, and leave it at that?' She hated discussing failure almost as much as she hated the thing itself.
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Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.
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Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.
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War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
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In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.
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I once played amateur tournament tennis six months without double-faulting.
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Because I've had time off, I've learned to appreciate tennis more - to put something back into it.
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In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.
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What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful.
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I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.
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Every stroke a tennis player plays is different, yet we perceive them as playing in a distinctive and unique way. It's what Heidegger called a certain 'how' of existing. It's ultimately always singular, and the double task of (a) getting it in view and (b) communicating it to others will inevitably be marked more often by failure than success!
