Wyatt Earp quotes
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“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.”
-- Wyatt EarpSource : "Playing loose and fast with the truth" by Stephen Pritchard, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2011.
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“Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.”
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“That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.”
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“You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?”
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“Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into.”
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“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.”
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“The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.”
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“No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight.”
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Source : Angela Johnson (2010). “The First Part Last”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
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“In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.”
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“Try to be accurate about stuff.”
Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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“You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.”
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“Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.”
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“If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?”
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“No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.”
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