Wyatt Earp famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
-- Wyatt Earp

#Live Life #Fine #Accuracy
Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.
-- Wyatt Earp

#Mean #Men #Shooting
My name is Wyatt Earp! It all ends now!
-- Wyatt Earp

#Names #Ends
That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.
-- Wyatt Earp

#Tombstone #Honor #Sacred
You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?
-- Wyatt Earp

#Bad Ass #Ass
Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into.
-- Wyatt Earp

#Running #Fate #Destiny
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.
-- Wyatt Earp

#Fighting #Gun #Needs
The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.
-- Wyatt Earp

#Gun #Men #Play
No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight.
-- Wyatt Earp

#Wise #Fighting #Gun

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end...
Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.
Try to be accurate about stuff.
You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.
If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?
No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

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