William Westney Quotes

Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.

William Westney

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• The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Today
  • You
  • Fireworks

• As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Important
  • Respect
  • Unity

• We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Strong
  • Path
  • Matter

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• I want more movies like 'Straight Outta Compton.' Showing our stories of triumph, we'll make it through, and we'll get to something better.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Better
  • Movies

• What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.

  

  Ed Lee
  • People
  • Time
  • Community

• Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Done
  • Water
  • Tree

• You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• Handsome is that handsome does.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Farewell

• As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.

  

  David Harewood
  • Imagination

• I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor

• Well, I guess, but I just feel so strong. Actually, it was probably when I was 50 that we were trying to - to get pregnant, and I thought that I could do it then.

  

  Cheryl Tiegs
  • Trying
  • Strong

• I wasn't happy at the career I was at and wanted to try something else, and so I tried fighting, and it's working out pretty well. I set my own schedule; I have my own training facilities. I'm not traveling as much, and I'm at home every night.

  

  Brock Lesnar
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• We all have our levels of risk tolerance. People who have decided they want to go to space are going to go.

  

  Jim Cantrell
  • People
  • Space
  • Risk

• Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Music
  • Home
  • Happy

• The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

  

  Edward Levi
  • Power
  • Commitment

• You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know?

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Black
  • Mean
  • Slave

• I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I am. I love the feeling of holding a finished book in my hands, and then I can't wait to start the great adventure of writing the next one.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I want to be part of the human race I want to live, breathe.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Want
  • Humans
  • Race

• Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Spirit
  • Creative
  • Adventure

• I take pride in knowing the NFL is pink in October, sparking conversations everywhere about breast cancer and prevention, all in the spirit of my mom.

  

  DeAngelo Williams
  • Mom
  • Pride
  • Cancer

• Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.

  

  William Westney
  • Humans
  • Adventure
  • Universal