#nature

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature. ↗

— Robert Redford

#baseball #because #example #fishing #golf

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box. ↗

— Robert Redford

#box #brings #certain #depending #far

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story. ↗

— Robert Redford

#close #comes #completely #control #find

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#faster #like #looks #much #nature

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. ↗

— Auguste Renoir

#confidence #himself #his #listen #master

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#great #mere #nature #never #produce

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#god-like #good #human #human nature #nature

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#attractions #good-natured #hopes #humor #kept

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team. ↗

— Pat Riley

#efficiency #game #moving #particular #performance

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! ↗

— Pat Riley

#contribute #declaring #each #ego #hardest