#these

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#better #challenges #command #control #crises

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected. ↗

— Edmund White

#being #felt #hurt #i #life

How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was? ↗

— Ryan White

#could #eye #how #me #people

If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate. ↗

— Shaun White

#building #bummer #cities #definitely #go

Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding. ↗

— Shaun White

#crazy #get #go #got #home

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#even #finite #grasp #infinite #infinitude

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#around #been #built #commerce #community

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors. ↗

— Dar Williams

#because #funny #funny thing #go #got

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie. ↗

— Edward Bennett Williams

#got #license #lie #new #new york

I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important? ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#artists #being #comfortable #constantly #days