Marksman Quotes

• A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, Political

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• A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Self, Essence

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• Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Guitar, Musician

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.25, Paladin Press

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• No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

  George Iles

  Eye, Science, Gun

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• Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Aim

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• alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Target, Genius, Talent

  "The World as Will and Representation".

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• A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Rifles, Fine

  Jeff Cooper (1998). “To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth”, p.172, Paladin Press

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• Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

  Bruce Lee

  Experts, Done, Levels

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• Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Philosophy, Distance

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• Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman.

  Steven Weber

  Hair, Media, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most of my relatives are police marksmen, apart from my grandad who was a bank robber. He died recently, surrounded by his family.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Police

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• You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said. Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my window." "Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it." "Twice." "Thus proving that he and I are outstanding marksmen.

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Needs, Potatoes

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.97, Penguin

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• Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hands, People, Achievement

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• I'm a writer-director-actor, which I've always kind of enjoyed. I compared it to the Olympic biathlon. "Not only can he cross-country ski, but he's a terrific marksman as well." I want people to say, "You mean that writer performed a tracheotomy?" That's right, I do everything.

  Harold Ramis

  Country, Mean, People

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, believermag.com. March 1, 2006.

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• Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows.

  Arthur Lismer

  Arrows, Experts, Use

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• Alfredo Di Stéfano was the greatest footballer of all time - far better even than Pelé. He was, simultaneously, the anchor in defence, the playmaker in midfield, and the most dangerous marksman in attack.

  Helenio Herrera

  Anchors, Dangerous, All Time

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• Can it be entirely accidental that the most famous fictional spy of them all, James Bond, Number 007, deadly marksman, intriguer, the ultimate man behind the curtain, sexual athlete and ruthless patriot, is also a Scot, as was the author, whose wish-fulfilment he was?

  Linda Colley

  Athlete, Men, Numbers

  Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.132, Yale University Press

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