William Westney Quotes

Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.

William Westney

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• I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Soccer

• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Religion
  • Beauty

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Ideas

• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Real
  • You
  • Need

• I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Day

• It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Society
  • Face
  • Celebrate

• Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Better
  • Well

• Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Purpose

• Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Time
  • War
  • New

• In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • World
  • Technology
  • Computers

• I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes, macarons, all of that!

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Paris
  • Chocolate
  • Pastries

• At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Earnest

• There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there, manage a life when you don't make a lot of money. It's very adult.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Live
  • Children
  • Love

• Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Kind

• We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Expect
  • Expecting

• I like action-adventure movies.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Action
  • Like
  • Movies

• A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

  

  Euripides
  • Danger
  • Turns
  • Brave Man

• I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.

  

  Peaches Geldof
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Wife

• It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity.

  

  John Norman
  • Imagination
  • Practice
  • Sex

• A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Practice
  • Vulgar
  • Mechanick

• Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.

  

  William Westney
  • Practice
  • Teaching
  • Seems