#contribute

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#advantage #changing #common #contribute #controlling

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#because #close #close friends #contribute #friends

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs. ↗

— John Warnock

#better #care #communication #contributed #food

There is no life that does not contribute to history. ↗

— Dorothy West

#does #history #life

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application. ↗

— William Weld

#best #citizenry #contribute #government #highest

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#contribute #decisions #familiar #good #good work

I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family. ↗

— Venus Williams

#best #contribute #family #i #myself

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#attainable #certainly #closure #contributes #doubt

It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#attention #contribute #country #fighting #health

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#eye #fix #intellectual #may #mind