#ems

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life. ↗

— Vera Wang

#against #although #always #anyone #better

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it. ↗

— Patrick Warburton

#audience #find #themselves #without

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#answers #direct #energies #excuses #focus

A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have. ↗

— Chris Ware

#book #impose #life #real #real life

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon. ↗

— Chris Ware

#bad #blames #cartoon #might #painting

There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows. ↗

— Chris Ware

#billboards #everything #hate #i #laziness

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves. ↗

— Earl Warren

#convict #criminals #endangered #illegal #liberty

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#common #deep #discovering #incapable #legislators

I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#am #another #being #earth #fulfilling

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. ↗

— George Washington

#dislodge #easier #enemy #experience #got