#tower

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

#confidence #did #i #little #now

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#man #mind #more #seven #sitting

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#center #intelligence #new #skill #successfully