Chance Quote by William Westney Download Open image “If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.” — William Westney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chance Chances are Ifs Inspirational Love Music practice
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that… — Channing Pollock Copy Share Image
The problem is not what we are doing badly, it is because we are not doing things well. — Patrice Evra Copy Share Image
Problem was that we could make things worse but we couldn't make anything better. — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
You're not gonna do what we do better than we do it. Even if you're doing what we do, you're not gonna do it… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
Things might not get better but they might not get worse. There's something sort of beautiful about that. — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses. — William Westney Copy Share Image
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… — William Westney Copy Share Image
If you have played "six times wrong, one time right" the problem is not quite corrected. — William Westney Copy Share Image
Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal… — William Westney Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
. .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room. — William Westney Copy Share Image
The reason so many of us lose our bearings about practising early in life is that we practice in living rooms with other family… — William Westney Copy Share Image
Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it. — William Westney Copy Share Image
Music study presents a natural, here-and-now route to selfknowledge and self-integration. — William Westney Copy Share Image
Mistakes are . . . immensely useful. . . they show us . . . where we are right now and what we need to do next — William Westney Copy Share Image
Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be… — William Westney Copy Share Image
Before I debuted, it was my goal to make my debut, and afterwards, I aimed at winning champion titles on television music shows, and… — Hyuna Copy Share Image
I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm… — Stipe Miocic Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Love changes people, for better or for worse. You could look at it as a chance for you to change. The best kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image