"I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice."

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Source : Dan Jenkins (2015). “DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Dan Jenkins

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“The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks.”

Source : "Sofia Vergara's Secrets: The Esquire Cover Story" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 19, 2012.
“Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.”
“The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.”

Source : "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 142, 1999.
“Whatever the job is, we can do it. Thats why the nation has a Marine Corps.”

Source : "Reshaping Your Corps". Interview with Bob Drury, www.menshealth.com. June 2, 2011.
“Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys. Adolescence. The first date, the first kiss, the first chance to hold hands with someone special. Delayed, postponed, a decade's worth of longing--while everybody around you celebrates life, you pretend, suppress, inhibit, deprive yourself of you own joy--but finally ultimately, eventually, you find a place where you can have a taste of everything denied.”
“Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.”
“I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.”
“The soul of Man must quicken to creation.”

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