#ak

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#back #deeply #end #exhausted #heroes

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives. ↗

— John Wilkins

#lives #make #mind #pleasant #thoughts

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress. ↗

— Maurice Wilkins

#general rule #going #i #make #mean

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection. ↗

— Maurice Wilkins

#copies #could #disorder #essential #exact

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable. ↗

— Tom Wilkinson

#any #being #fool #foolish #kind

I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked. ↗

— Allison Williams

#cameras #college #crazy #distorted #fashion

When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#find #get #group #kid #kids

At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#country #day #doubt #embodied #end

I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#festival #festivals #haven #i #life

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy. ↗

— George C. Williams

#decisions #devising #gradually #help #human