Quotes by Australian/Australia authors (page 9)

"Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"I've really got no complaints about the way I played, just extremely frustrating with the putter and I'm sure there's a lot of other players saying the same thing except the guy who's going to win the golf tournament"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"When you see that many people with a smile on their face, then you must be doing something right"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand it"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"I don't see myself playing or adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"You know, like I said, I'm not going to adjust my Senior Tour schedule"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions"

Jim Goad, Author

"Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body"

Jim Goad, Author

"You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"They're not posing as being Jesus Christ all the time"

Jim Goad, Author

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