#rio

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#alone #anything #because #curiosity #discipline

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#control #getting #know #people #president

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#cases #different #each #generally #had

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. ↗

— Richard Whately

#curiosity #memory #much #parent

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#aggression #culture #find #impede #less

That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said "But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously," and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#fought #i #lot #most #movie

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#aside #been #does #ever #great

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#creative #mankind #periods #prolific #seldom

Be curious, not judgmental. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#judgmental

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#conqueror #ever #exterior #i #life