#ld

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#alone #cannot #hold #house #opponents

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#easy #i #interesting #know #life

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#breadth #broad #calm #death #delicious

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#dread #emigrants #held #indians #mexican

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. ↗

— Richard Whately

#makes #necessary #neglect #rebuilding #repair

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#bosses #capacity #choose #control #destroyed

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

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#comes #cycle #destroying #employ #end

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#america #angry #around #bar #currently

Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, 'No, I just want to be an actor.' ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#always #ask #even #i #just