William Westney Quotes

[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.

William Westney

• Practice
• Knowing
• Apologizing
• Tendencies
• Perfectionism

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• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Practice
  • Difference
  • Theory

• I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Good
  • Best
  • Practice

• Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Practice

• Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Humility
  • Credit

• If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Real
  • History
  • Practice

• The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Mind
  • Practice
  • Questions

• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Why
  • America
  • Government

• I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Practice
  • Guitar

• When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • School
  • High
  • Sports

• My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Up
  • Different
  • Age

• I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Practice

• Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the Internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still paying for cable or satellite service often also have Netflix or Hulu accounts.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Practice
  • Service

• I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!

  

  Vijay
  • Practice
  • Enjoy
  • Dancing

• Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Schlitz Malt talls. My brother would go out at 7pm to party and get laid, and when he'd come back at 3am, I would still be sitting in the same place, playing guitar. I did that for years - I still do that.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Party
  • Practice
  • Brother

• My dad traveled so much for work that, when he was home, we always wanted to spend as much time with him as we could, so going to practices and doing stuff like that with him took precedence over Saturday morning cartoons. We'd go to practice with my dad just so we could be a part of it.

  

  J. B. Bickerstaff
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

  

  Jesse Owens
  • Life
  • Practice

• You can practice against each other, but there's something about a game situation.

  

  James Worthy
  • Game
  • Practice

• Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?

  

  Eliyahu Goldratt
  • Why
  • Practice

• It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.

  

  Jim McKelvey
  • Time
  • Challenge
  • Practice

• Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Life
  • inspirational
  • Looks

• Het is voor iemand als ik een heel eigenaardige gewaarwording om in een dagboek te schrijven. Niet alleen dat ik nog nooit geschreven heb, maar het komt me zo voor, dat later noch ik, noch iemand anders in de ontboezemingen van een dertienjarig schoolmeisje belang zal stellen.

  

  Anne Frank

• [perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.

  

  William Westney
  • Practice
  • Knowing
  • Apologizing