Ken Venturi Quotes

The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

Ken Venturi

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • She
  • Mother
  • New York

• When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Pressure

• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • You
  • Matter
  • Horizon

• The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Choice

• Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Clothes
  • Dead
  • Suit

• Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Purpose

• The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Think
  • Stupid
  • Internet

• 'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Mind
  • Kids

• People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Voice

• I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Up
  • America
  • Think

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• I think that liberals need to grow up.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Up
  • Think
  • Grow

• You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Book
  • Happiness

• I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Judge
  • Bible
  • Our Lives

• I'm a vocabulary nerd.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Nerd
  • Vocabulary

• Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.

  

  Inbee Park
  • She
  • Me
  • Week

• The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

  

  Angelina Grimke
  • Law

• Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

  

  Ken Venturi
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Brain