The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Interpretation
The integrity of a game lies in adhering to its unique rules and tools.
Hemingway's quote implies that every activity or pursuit has its own essential qualities and rules that must be respected. If we allow foreign methods or tools into a specific practice, we dilute its essence and compromise its integrity, which in this case refers to the sport of golf.
In practice
In a motivational speech about maintaining integrity in sports and personal pursuits.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.
I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.
[W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused.
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
A man walks on through life - with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirring in his heart, and then suddenly, without any warning, the Spirit taps him on the shoulder. What happens? He turns 'round. The word 'repentance' means 'turning 'round.' He repents and believes and is saved.
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