#quit

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#assume #context #dangerous #feels #given

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music. ↗

— Barry White

#high #high school #i #i quit #make

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#context #deal #destroyed #distorted #either

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit. ↗

— Sue Wicks

#enough #even #getting #i #killed

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#could #english #here #how #irish

All art is quite useless. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#quite #useless

My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother. ↗

— Geoffrey Wilkinson

#brother #came #chemistry #early #early age

When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time. ↗

— Prince William

#amazing #background #basically #burn #catch

It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all. ↗

— Prince William

#around #because #close #engagement #excitement

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people. ↗

— Prince William

#ambitious #help #help people #people #people say