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Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course. -- Henry Beard
Handicaps are mindsets. Whatever it is that stands in the way of achieving something, that's when it's a handicap. I prefer to see them as obstacles or challenges. This is how I've been my whole life. I don't know any different. I just live my life through my feet. -- Jessica Cox
In politics stupidity is not a handicap. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind. -- Marlee Matlin
When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. -- George McGovern
Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant. -- Tito Jackson
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. -- Gustave Flaubert
I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting. -- Shia LaBeouf
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. -- Ray Kroc
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind. -- Stephen Hawking
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. -- Salvador Dali
Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match. -- Kapil Dev
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome. -- Golda Meir
The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential. -- Yehuda Berg
People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap. -- Vivien Leigh
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field. -- Aubrey de Grey
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. -- Lewis Mumford
I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal. -- Gary Johnson
You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time. -- Gordie Howe
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music. -- Jim Davis
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. -- Carter G. Woodson
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. -- Frans de Waal
And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense. -- Shia LaBeouf
I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled. -- Paul Michael Glaser
I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting. -- Barbara Mertz
One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good! -- Bethany Hamilton
A lot of people, when they say 'forgive and forget,' they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they don't haunt you or handicap you or kill you. -- Ishmael Beah
My handicap? Woods and irons. -- Chris Codiroli
Disability can be no handicap. -- Stephen Hawking
Fear is a survival tool not a handicap. -- Garrison Wynn
A bad attitude is the only true handicap. -- Scott Hamilton
Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap. -- Bobby Nichols
Talk about handicap! I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
Differences can be strength rather than a handicap. -- Condoleezza Rice
I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world. -- Winston Churchill
Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it. -- Sophia Loren
Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap. -- Robert Genn
I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph. -- John H. Johnson
The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential. -- John C. Maxwell
Well, I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means. -- Ray Romano
My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap! -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury. -- Christopher Paolini
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. -- Alan Watts
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. -- Josephine Tey
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap. -- Richard Reeves
Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities. -- Stuart Hill
Sometimes I park in handicap spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces. -- Denis Leary
There's no such thing as a handicap - it's all in your head -- Bethany Hamilton
Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world. -- Anthony Burgess
Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes. -- Helen Keller
I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap. -- Alistair Cooke
I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals. -- Bob Hope
In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice. -- Bertha Knight Landes
I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race. -- Ari Fleischer
In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap. -- Ken Buck
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. -- James Lane Allen
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood. -- Michael Medved
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner played golf this weekend. Obama's handicap is Joe Biden. -- Jay Leno
This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency -- Molly Ivins
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them. -- Helen Keller
But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting. -- Philip Gibbs
Pride is a very dangerous disease that can turn your talent, asset, and achievements into a handicap. -- Uzoma Nnadi
Each person begins life with a head start in some areas and a handicap in other areas. -- Daniel Lapin
My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress. -- Ronald Reagan
You have to watch your handicap. My son Steve says, "Never make a putt you don't have to." -- Jack Nicklaus
my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success. -- Marie Pitt
I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said. -- Jack Redmond
Me myself I park in handicap, the reason why... ya know my bankroll make me walk with a crazy limp. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick. -- Arthur Balfour
As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly. -- Coco Chanel
You had some unexpected help. You had help from God! Essentially, it became a handicap match! Me vs you and God! -- Vince McMahon
There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun. -- Fred Bear
My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me. -- Rick Hansen
Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off. -- Jodi Picoult
One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change. -- Gail Sheehy
Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition. -- Franz Beckenbauer
Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say? -- Isaac Marion
Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress -- Steve Grand
The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which. -- Charles Francis Richter
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more. -- Pearl S. Buck
I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand. -- Dennis Lehane
I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words. -- Ann Voskamp
President Clinton and President Obama played a round of golf over the weekend. President Clinton asked Obama what his handicap was, and Obama said, 'Joe Biden.' -- Jay Leno
He does not see as i have that you have given him your heart, but he is male. We will cut him some slack for that handicap, yes? -- Katie MacAlister
It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it. -- Herbert Newton Casson
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too -- Lawrence Bixby
Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning the struggle or the Gnostic esoteric work. -- Samael Aun Weor
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap -- Jacques Barzun
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. -- Jacques Barzun
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap. -- Paul Chambers
Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty -- Harry Chapin
You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time. -- Gordie Howe
Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God's image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved. -- Jean Vanier
I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF THOSE PEOPLE TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT HUMANS AND HUMANITY. -- Marion Cotillard

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