#lock

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#like #loose #same #spring #time

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#breaking #clock #efficient #everyone #fans

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#focus #goal #just #me #one thing

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. ↗

— Edward Witten

#beyond #blocks #building #building blocks #equipment

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#adjustment #combination #does #door #each

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#i #locked #out #perhaps #thought

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#doors #people #smart #smart people #unlocked

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power. ↗

— Orville Wright

#design #had #just #motor #power

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.' ↗

— Steven Wright

#down #front #got #grocery #guy

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine. ↗

— William Wyler

#five #hollywood #life #miserable #morning