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Grip pressure - not mechanical flaws - is the biggest factor when you're nervous. You unconsciously grip it tighter, which keeps you from making a smooth swing with a natural release. Keep your grip pressure light, and you'll be surprised how much your mechanics stabilize. -- Ernie Els
Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird. -- Sam Snead
Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy. -- Isaac Asimov
I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did. -- Dana Gould
Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for. -- Dwyane Wade
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself. -- Alberto Giacometti
If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth. -- George Osborne
When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip. -- Lewis Black
Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip. -- Russell Crowe
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy. -- Shane Smith
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. -- John Muir
My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world. -- Andreas Gursky
A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace. -- Kwame Nkrumah
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be. -- Anthony Bourdain
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip. -- Wassily Kandinsky
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. -- Todd Gitlin
Nothing's ever too fast. Maybe sometimes on the road some people are too fast if they don't know how to control the car, but in racing, the faster and more power and grip, the better it is. -- Heikki Kovalainen
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. -- Gore Vidal
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. -- Henry Ford
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too. -- Stephen Fry
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities. -- Cynthia Ozick
Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living. -- D. H. Lawrence
Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business. -- Brian Wilson
I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip. -- Henry Rollins
I dread handshakes. I've got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake. So I'll say, 'Gimme five!' If a boy wants a handshake, I'll just give him a hug. -- George Foreman
Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip. -- Eckhart Tolle
The style I have in judo is very unique... One big advantage a judo player has is they have very good posture and - like, wrestlers, they show when they're about to do a take-down... which judo players don't, and so I kind of incorporate the boxing style with a judo grip and finishing that way. -- Ronda Rousey
I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year. -- Mike Love
Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip! -- J. D. Salinger
Good golf begins with a good grip. -- Ben Hogan
Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. -- Charles M. Schwab
Better to flee from death than feel its grip. -- Homer
Get a grip, get a life, and get over it. -- Justin Johnson
Get a grip, Oreo, and be true to the game. -- Ice Cube
You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece. -- Leonard Cohen
Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers. -- Taliesin
Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size. -- Ronnie Coleman
Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and fine serenity... -- Surya Das
To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth. -- Mark Twain
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. -- Barbara Tuchman
Right now, in my mind, this is nothing but grip strength and focus. -- Joe Teti
I didn't have a grip on that ball. I shouldn't have thrown it. -- Kevin Millar
I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip. -- Wendelin Van Draanen
What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip. -- Bernard Beckett
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease? -- C. S. Lewis
America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas. -- William Pfaff
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. -- Abraham Lincoln
Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries. -- Douglas MacArthur
A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization! -- Deeba
Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing. -- Frank Herbert
Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip -- Charles Spurgeon
We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics. -- Tom Daschle
A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response. -- Kim Jong Il
Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests. -- John W. Gardner
My professional persona never loosens its grip, keeping an eye on me at all times. -- Agnetha Faltskog
The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality. -- David Alan Harvey
sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me . -- Maggie Stiefvater
I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little. -- Matt Berninger
A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization! -- Deeba
There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat -- Terry Southern
Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson. -- Bernie Mac
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you? -- Ben Hogan
Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow. -- Paula Fox
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you -- Ben Hogan
Half of my heart's got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time. -- John Mayer
Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip. -- Albert Mohler
Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now. -- Mike Nichols
You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. -- Kip Thorne
From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance). -- Brenda Shoshanna
I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem. -- Murray Walker
You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence. -- Joseph Conrad
In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip. -- John Updike
US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government. -- Ignacio Chapela
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. (Bengali poet and novelist, 1861-1941) -- Rabindranath Tagore
The way I hold the club, I've got my hand way over, like I'm driving a motorcycle. My Kawasaki grip. -- Pete Sampras
If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I'd need: food, shelter, and a grip. -- George C. Scott
I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways. -- Harlan Coben
Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually. -- Frederick Lenz
Beloved, let the fact of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the same -- Oliver B. Greene
My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl. -- Kristen Stewart
Oh Man! Maternal love is a bitch. It takes a woman in its grip at the most unexpected moments. ~ Ananya Mehta -- Kirtida Gautam
It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore. -- M.I.A.
Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips. -- Tupac Shakur
Certain majors [lables] just know what they're doin', and got a good grip on the dynamic of what's happening, and some don't. -- Joe Budden
The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Get a grip on your heart and pride, girl. Nobody has or ever will give a damn whether you're happy or not. -- Sandy Blair
And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence. -- Robert Fisk
We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality. -- Garrison Keillor
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself. -- Ezra Pound
I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money. -- Malachy McCourt
Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass. -- Bhartrhari
When I'm out there, I don't think about anything. I just grip it and rip it. I don't like to worry about technique. -- Yani Tseng
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature. -- Saul Bellow
Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor. -- Mother Teresa
Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake. -- Eudora Welty
I think science is real.And I think it's important that we grip this and deal with it, both at home and abroad. -- Hillary Clinton
SOME GIRLS WEAR PRADA. SOME GIRLS WEAR GLOCK 17 SHORT RECOIL SPRING-LOADED SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOLS WITH A LOADED CHAMBER INDICATOR AND A NONSLIP GRIP. - T-SHIRT -- Darynda Jones
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation. -- Charles W. Chesnutt
This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern. -- Sean Carroll
Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility. -- Richard St. Barbe Baker
Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior. -- Kris Carr
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon. -- Brian Greene
You can't learn something about all women. Sometimes I feel that the older I get, the less of a grip I've got on it. -- Jamie Hince
She was right; if Logan lost a grip on his emotions, it could be dangerous for Page because she'd be the one administering the shot. -- Dannika Dark
Sanity is tenuous. Tenuous. Comes and goes. Many of the brightest people floating about this planet have only a finger's grip on sanity, if that. -- Cathy Lamb
Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted. -- Melina Marchetta
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. -- Anne Rice
It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on. -- C. S. Lewis
Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip? -- Orison Swett Marden
I wear Blundstones for hiking. They're like a work boot with a bit of grip, so you can wear them all day. They're quite groovy. -- Anna Torv
One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general. -- Christopher Hitchens
Get a grip. You're pricklier than a feral cat," he said, sitting up."Too bad for you, I'm not in heat," I said, calming down. -- Tiffany King
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