William Westney Quotes

When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis of self-acceptance for those who are so used to driving themselves and trying to please others.

William Westney

• Trying
• Driving
• Honest
• Calm
• Acceptance
• Perfectionism

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• You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Understand
  • Interest
  • Public

• I know politics; I know the media.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Media

• Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Today
  • Legal

• I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • People
  • Myself
  • Story

• I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Good
  • Done
  • Friends

• Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Remember
  • Film
  • Cousins

• Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Flowers

• Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

  

  Ovid
  • Born
  • Praise
  • Ancient

• The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • True
  • Moment
  • Be True

• Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • People
  • Story
  • Easy

• Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• Crying that it's an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with reality, not what you wish reality was.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Reality
  • Light
  • Wish

• I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.

  

  Clarice Lispector
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Effort

• I don't know how to dance, and I don't have any extra flexible skills.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Dance

• When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Good
  • Great
  • Trying

• Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• It's pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst.

  

  Lily James
  • Up
  • Pretty

• I want to entertain.

  

  Jessica Szohr

• The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

  

  John Huston
  • World
  • Together
  • Small

• I'm prone to tangential digressions, but I've never regretted being remarkably inconsistent:it's led me to fascinating people and interesting stories.

  

  Natalie MacLean
  • People
  • Stories
  • Led

• I didn't actually grow up in London.

  

  Ben Hardy
  • Up

• I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Listening

• When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis of self-acceptance for those who are so used to driving themselves and trying to please others.

  

  William Westney
  • Trying
  • Driving
  • Honest