#mist

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win. ↗

— George Wald

#competition #mistake #russians #species #thought

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#constant #direction #generally #governments #headed

Maybe the mistakes have looked worse because they led to goals. ↗

— Ian Walker

#goals #led #looked #maybe #mistakes

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964. ↗

— John E. Walker

#chemistry #college #degree #i #oxford

I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#facing #falls #focused #going #i

That mist was thick. It was hard to see at times. The wind was wild. It'd come at me one way and hit me from the front, and hit me from the back. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#come #front #hard #hit #me

There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was water moving everywhere. And if I looked up there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face. So it was a very unique, a weird sensation. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#cable #down #everywhere #face #focus

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn. ↗

— Earl Warren

#head #heart #learn #mistake #way

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#commonplace #human #laugh #make #maturity

Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#anything #artificial #combinations #committed #ever