#sly

I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way. ↗

— John Wooden

#doing #i #i think #light #like

The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#every #feel #give #go #i

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles. ↗

— Francis Wright

#curiously #directed #equally #exercise #faculties

I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.' ↗

— Al Yankovic

#bathroom #consciously #fantasies #going #had

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously. ↗

— Venus Williams

#first #i #job #seriously #sister

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#continuously #exercise #form #general #good

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#doing #find #go #had #i

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time. ↗

— Evan Rachel Wood

#take #time #you #yourself

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#i #i think #irrational #seriously #take

There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like Earth, and particularly the understanding of that part of the then-existing group-civilization which called itself the West. That idea, to my mind, met its materialist apotheosis in Berlin at the time of the Wall. Perhaps I go into some sort of shock when I experience something deeply; I'm not sure, even at this ripe middle-age, but I have to admit that what I recall of Berlin is not arranged in my memory in any normal, chronological sequence. My only excuse is that Berlin itself was so abnormal - and yet so bizarrely representative - it was like something unreal; an occasionally macabre Disneyworld which was so much a part of the real world (and the realpolitik world), so much a crystallization of everything these people had managed to produce, wreck, reinstate, venerate, condemn and worship in their history that it defiantly transcended everything it exemplified, and took on a single - if multifariously faceted - meaning of its own; a sum, an answer, a statement no city in its right mind would want or be able to arrive at. ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#cities #diziet-sma #mankind #marterialist-apotheosis #multifariously-faceted