#iv

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion. ↗

— Eli Whitney

#fashion #form #give #just #objects

Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture. ↗

— Sue Wicks

#cheering #come #contribution #day #every

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#get #inconvenient #leave #less #long

Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat with his boot, so he tells himself, sometimes successfully. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#war #warriors #home

Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#black #certain #go #hand #i

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them. ↗

— Gene Wilder

#because #believe #call #demon #demons

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#adult life #anything #i #i can #imagine

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education. ↗

— William Wiley

#age #artist #aware #been #being

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#i #left #my own #own #paid

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#fear #i #letting #me #motivates