#wil

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#force #friends #lever #make #up

Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom. ↗

— Zack Wamp

#armed forces #best #critical #ensure #forces

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future. ↗

— An Wang

#future #important #important thing #jeopardize #make

The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it. ↗

— Vera Wang

#attached #falling #falling in love #heart #key

Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young. ↗

— Burt Ward

#maybe #me #those #times #wild

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. ↗

— Alan Watts

#appear #find #paradoxes #particularly #study

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#criticize #encourage #flatter #forced #forget

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.' ↗

— Chris Ware

#carver #comics #confidence #connect #connor

I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#actually #am #being #character #color

We must continue, however, to send a strong message of resolve to the people of Iraq, to our troops, to our coalition partners, and to the rest of the world that we, the United States of America, will stay the course and get the job done. ↗

— John Warner

#coalition #continue #course #done #get