Rotella Quotes & Sayings

A golfer has to learn to enjoy the process of striving to improve. That process, not the end result, enriches life. — Bob Rotella

As a manager, you need to make professional friends and contacts, not BFFs. — Chad Halverson

'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist ... Whatever word you want. — Alexander Payne

In conversation, he came off as if he was enjoying a private joke at your expense. When he sang, though, he sounded as if he believed every word with all his heart. And it became hard to dislike him. — Sebastian Rotella

Life is never the fairy tale they sold us on when we were kids. More often, it's the nightmare we can never wake from. What they don't tell us when we're little is that the trick is to find the one who will be there in the middle of the night to hold us when we're screaming and tell us that it'll be all right. The one who doesn't shirk or run from our nightmares, but who holds us through them and makes sure we never face them alone. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Hard work is much more important than talent — Carlo Rotella

If at first you dont succeed.........quit! — Jackson T. Wright

Raymond collected expressions. He repeated them in experimental accents, as if learning a tune. He sounded like an Eighteenth Street Mexican when he said cuate, like a Logan Square cubano when he said comemierda. — Sebastian Rotella

Isabel, remember we used to talk about a honeymoon in Spain?"
"Of course."
"It woulda been a blast. I took a walk last night. Two in the morning, it felt like two in the afternoon. Traffic. People on the street: families, old folks on benches. The bars and restaurants were full, everybody carrying on. Hard to believe there's an economic crisis."
"Maybe they should shut up, get some sleep, and fix the mess. — Sebastian Rotella

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends. — Christopher Dawson

Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning ... Anyone can start over and make a new ending. — Chico Xavier

The reality is that many of us in these parts are not enamored of Paris." The Commandant gulped down his coffee. "I worked there as a young officer in the CRS, the riot squad. I speak from personal experience. Paris is bizarre. Paris is a museum surrounded by a jungle. — Sebastian Rotella

Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston. — Rob Sheffield

True simplicity implies love and trust - it does not expect to be derided and rejected, any more than it expects to be admired and praised. — Thomas Merton

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you." — Alexander Graham Bell

A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make. — Amy Heckerling

Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal. — Alan Lightman

I used to read every golf magazine front to back; I was addicted to Golf Channel, read Rotella, read every golf book. — Trent Dilfer

It little mattered whether my curiosity irritated him: I knew the pleasure of vexing and soothing him by turns; it was one I chiefly delighted in, and a sure instinct always prevented me from going too far: beyond the verge or provocation I never ventured; on the extreme brink I liked well to try my skill. Retaining every minute form of respect, every propriety of my station, I could still meet him in argument without fear of uneasy restraint: this suited both him and me. — Charlotte Bronte

She's just tried to bloody knife me, Robin!"
"Well, she didn't manage it, did she?" commented Robin, busy with the kettle.
"Ineptitude," said Strike incredulously, "is no fucking defense under the law! — Robert Galbraith

Our job is to make others feel better and to find happiness. It will ultimately make you happy and abundant. — Debasish Mridha

I'm one of the more positive cats, but when people go off about everybody wanting to be a DJ, I don't doubt them either. I understand their point as well. — Neil Armstrong

That's what happens. Governments fuck you around. People fuck you around. By the time they're done, you don't know who you are. Especially if you weren't sure to begin with. — Sebastian Rotella

There may be obstacles, but money is not one," the Iranian said.
"Good. Money is usually an obstacle if you don't have it. — Sebastian Rotella

That Raymond was something," Nestor said. "Very talented."
"Perhaps not the best pianist." Bocha grimaced apologetically, as if compelled to put that evaluation on the record.
"He used to tell me he was basically faking it on the piano," Pescatore said. "He said he played just well enough to get into trouble. — Sebastian Rotella

Pescatore marveled at the seascape. It gave him vertigo. The wind deployed cloud formations. The sun seared the Moroccan coastline. He had read a line once about "the lion-colored hills of Africa." Were they lion-colored? What color was a lion exactly? — Sebastian Rotella

We all have had inconvenient friends. — Sebastian Rotella