Snell Quotes

#1. God, if only I were smart enough to know I'm worth more than being kept secret

Anthony Paull

#2. Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour over things that might be decided in minutes. However, if the issue at stake is large, stay as long as the next man, but go ahead and do things.

John J. Raskob

#3. i'm a realist, miss randall. if you show me a glass, i see it as neither half-empty nor half-full. i see enough water to drown a man, if i can find a way to put it in his lungs.

D.L. Snell

#4. In rereading, the irony is all dramatic.

DJK

#5. When it's pouring rain and you're bowling along through the wet, there's satisfaction in knowing you're out there and the others aren't.

Peter Snell

#6. Failing to remember is the primary reason for most performers' poor practising habits.

Howard Snell

#7. The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.

John Piper

#8. I'm not into one-hit wonders.

Clive Davis

#9. Any word with the our ending could be spelt or, don'tchaknow." "Like neighbor instead of neighbour?" "It's a good idea," put in Snell. "Labor, valor, flavor, harbor - there must be hundreds. If we confine it to one geographical area, we can claim it as a local spelling idiosyncrasy.

Jasper Fforde

#10. As soon as effective listening takes place, the ear identifies what needs to be done and guides the techniques search for a solution

Howard Snell

#11. It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but ... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Jonathan Davis

#12. The most valuable practice aid is patience.

Howard Snell

#13. There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning to our words. This is what is missing in the words on the page of a book, and the notes on the score.

Howard Snell

#14. It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.

Howard Snell

#15. I think I've seen the fastest miler ever. His name is Morceli.

Peter Snell

#16. Sound is not simply what we hear or play, but equally a feeling in the body

Howard Snell

#17. Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

Jasper Fforde

#18. Good listening is always the first step in the process that creates technique and capability

Howard Snell

#19. As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

Peter Snell

#20. My grandmother told me, "Words are holy. Treat them with respect. There's power there.

Alma Hogan Snell

#21. When the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

Howard Snell

#22. I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.

Bat For Lashes

#23. Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.

Peter Snell

#24. The underlying aim of practice .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.

Howard Snell

#25. Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page] in the German and British academic tradition.

Camille Paglia

#26. When girls were permitted to wear slacks to Creelman on Saturdays in 1963, it was headline news in the Ontarion.

James G. Snell