Quotes About Handicap

Lack of education," old Mrs. Sharpe said thoughtfully, "is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. They had no resources at all.

Mais le racisme n'est qu'un manque d'imagination. Et au fond, manquer d'imagination c'est être sérieusement "handicape mental".

I have a nine handicap in golf - I can always find time for a round - and I'm on my treadmill and cross-trainer every day.

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race.

While sophisticated plays can work in poker, if attempted by an inexperienced player, they'll usually backfire. Elaborate bluffs and check-raises are best left to experienced players. It's just like golf: don't try to hit a tricky flop shot with that 25-handicap of yours!

Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities.

I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can't explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.

Above all, a Technician must be dispassionate. The Reality Change he initiates may affect the lives of as many as fifty billion people. A million or more of these may be so drastically affected as to be considered new individuals. Under these conditions, an emotional make-up is a distinct handicap.

This lack of translation is a mental handicap that comes with being a human; and we will only start to attain wisdom or rationality when we make an effort to overcome and break through it.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.

for a negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.

Innocence is both a privilege and a cognitive handicap, a sheltered unknowingness that, once protracted into adulthood, hardens into entitlement.

Because of a streak of dreaminess and a gentle abstraction in his nature, Victor in any queue was always at its very end. He had long since grown used to this handicap, as one grows used to weak sight or a limp.

Howard then made Seabiscuit's entry for the Santa Anita Handicap. He left the jockey space blank.

Unfortunately, I only have time to play 15 to 20 rounds a year. I'm a 6-handicap but can play to a 16, no problem.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running for office can have, bigger than being gay, unmarried, thrice married, or black.

Florida sends me a handicap sticker when I'm there. It's embarrassing. But I can't walk more than six holes before the whole knee swells up, and then I can't go anymore.