#read

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#concentrated #experience #more #more people #most

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#already #hard #i #keep #learning

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#candle #light #mirror #reflects #spreading

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

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 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

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell. ↗

— Barry White

#barry white #company #launch #out #put

It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God. ↗

— George H. White

#accuse #crime #enough #even #fair

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange. ↗

— Jack White

#certainly #commercial #i #seems #song