#lea

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal. ↗

— Gary Wills

#common goal #goal #leadership #mobilization #toward

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#become #clear #freedom #ignored #longer

Education is the mother of leadership. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#leadership #mother

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#bad #good #good manners #manners #ones

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#indirectly #into #lead #man #people

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less. ↗

— William John Wills

#been #camels #disappointed #even #fact

The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume. ↗

— William John Wills

#assume #barren #beautiful #believe #could

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#dragon #george #giant #grammar #harry

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something. ↗

— Luke Wilson

#along #clear #comedy #cut #drama

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#longer #men #must #please #princeton