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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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
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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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I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.
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I don't mind if someone yells a motto out of their car at me. 'No touching! No touching!' No harm is done.
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I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.
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Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
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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!
