"Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts."

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Source : Gene Sarazen (1950). “Thirty Years of Championship Golf: The Life and Times of Gene Sarazen”

Gene Sarazen

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“What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?”
“Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.”

Source : Edward Rowland Sill, “The Fool's Prayer”
“To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions”
“Success is sequential, not simultaneous”
“Everyone was so good at what they were doing, and what they were bringing onto the table, that I was confident. I guess I was just trying to keep up, really, that was my hope at the end of the day; that I could do them justice and do the story [Maze Runner] justice and do Wes [Ball] justice.”
“So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places.”
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
“Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.”

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