Westphal Quotes

#1. Have fun doing whatever it is that you desire to accomplish. Learn it one step at a time, emphasizing the fundamentals, and do it because you love it, not because it's work.

Paul Westphal

#2. Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.

Craig Ferguson

#3. It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how?

James Westphal

#4. I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

Clay Aiken

#5. Honestly, I just want to keep people awake. Or at least give you one joke to go to bed with.

Jimmy Fallon

#6. It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the public.

Merold Westphal

#7. Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Dean Koontz

#8. You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.

Paul Westphal

#9. To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.

Merold Westphal

#10. Earlier today I was eating a nugget.

Angello Wellson-Noble

#11. My soul absorbs you, my mind inhales your essence, you confirm my life.

Al Cash

#12. You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.

Muhammad Ali

#13. My biggest fear in life is to be average.

M. Night Shyamalan

#14. Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.

Rodney Yee

#15. To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.

Merold Westphal

#16. There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#17. For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment ... Nothing is immune from the demand that boredom be relieved (but without personal involvement, for mass society is a spectator society).

Merold Westphal

#18. The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.

Arlene J. Chai

#19. On the correctly formed pubescent girl, a Speedo looked wonderful. When it was wet, it was an incitement to riot.

Clive James

#20. The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.

Paul Westphal

#21. I distrust official charity.All charity should be done by stealth.

Romain Rolland

#22. Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to The Wind in the Willows, was his favourite book.

Evelyn Waugh