"Lessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile."

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Source : Harvey Penick, Davis Love III (2012). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

Harvey Penick

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“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.”

Source : Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam
“Those deep hazel eyes held his and didn't blink. "You'd be amazed what I would do to keep you alive." Abruptly, V's mouth opened, his breath growing tight. And as the two of them stood chest-to-chest, he knew every inch of his body, felt it all at once.”
“My doctor told me I should get out of breath three times a week, so I took up smoking.”
“In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them.”
“A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.”
“I like to feel occupied.”
“I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!”
“That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful, but not glaring.”

Source : Jeremiah Seed (1763). “Discourses on several important subjects: To which is added, Eight sermons preached at the Lady Moyer's lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London”, p.217

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