Harry Vardon Quotes

Human error is usually the result of impatience.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

During the times of peace and prosperity a leader becomes careless and unmindful of the future

The idea of MPs texting and emailing through debates makes my gorge rise, as it does when a minicab driver makes phone calls at the wheel. I'm not paying you to keep in touch with your mates!

For some reason, it never crossed any mind in this administration to ask for the money back.

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.

I lose things all the time. I once left my mother's ashes at a bus stop!

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.

I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.

Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.

But I'll tell you what I'm really bad at: I don't concentrate on what I'm doing, so I constantly lose things. I put my purse in the fridge - I'm one of those people.

I'm not a good storm-outer... because I forget stuff.

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.

He takes the second step before the first

I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!

People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb.

Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.

Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.