George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
designer mets
I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were
taste modern responsible
Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.
horse men may
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
beauty perfect intellectual
The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.
looks answers world
To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.
sleep inspire sound
Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.
music writing self
I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.
music two america
If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.
science hands boxing
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.
being-yourself perfect effort
In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.
being-yourself mistake please
Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'
being-yourself suffering taught
Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.
being-yourself giving-up rejection
When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.
damage fortunate spared
We're very, very fortunate to have been spared as much as we were. While there has been flooding, it's isolated, and the damage is very minimal.