William McNamara Quotes

You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!

William McNamara

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• I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Yourself
  • Win
  • Tough

• I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Quality
  • Clear
  • Website

• Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Time
  • Present
  • Never

• Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Hate

• I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Excellence
  • Craft
  • Stubborn

• This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Politics
  • Separate
  • Match

• What I like about Rebel's style of comedy is she never plays the victim... she's never been fazed by her shape; it's just the way it is. She would mock her appearance whatever she looked like.

  

  Kate Jenkinson
  • Way
  • Comedy
  • Style

• Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Kids
  • Skinny
  • Timid

• The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state - be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Life
  • May
  • Power

• It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Great
  • Important
  • Future

• An unashamedly indecent read. Welsh fans will love it.

  

  Olaf Tyaransen
  • Fans
  • Welsh

• It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Life
  • Great
  • Dream

• Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Help
  • Violence
  • Poverty

• Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Men
  • Women
  • Business

• Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

  

  Anna Hutchison
  • Truth
  • Rule
  • Submit

• The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absurdity and cruelty. The British are fast turning themselves into a nation of slaves, where even the slave-masters are not free.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • People
  • Free
  • Law

• There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Experience
  • Results
  • Improvement

• Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic. Before the invention of navigational instruments, a beautiful lady was carved on the prow of the boat to help sailors cross the ocean; and architects, grappling with the intangibles of design, select a guru whose work gives them personal help in areas where there are few rules to follow. The guru, as architectural father-figure, is subject to intense hate and love; either way, the relationship is personal, and necessarily one-to-one.

  

  Denise Scott Brown
  • Relationship
  • Follow
  • Instruments

• If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.

  

  Jon Foreman
  • Future
  • Change
  • Tomorrow

• I think I’m super fucking Finnish. I’m so Finnish, so European, so Nordic. There’s always a part of me where I’m like … America—I don’t know how to be here. But I really try.

  

  Alma
  • Try
  • Part
  • Finnish

• You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!

  

  William McNamara
  • Passionate