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* "Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy."
Denis Waitley

* "It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts."
Addison Walker

* "But a mighty power and stronger
Man from his throne has hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle,
Is the hand that rules the world."
W.R. Wallace

* "The sages do not consider that making no mistake is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of a person lies in their ability to correct their mistakes and continually to make a new person of themselves." (*)
Wang Yang-ming

* "I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old--many people don't have that privilege.' "
Earl Warren

* "The longer I live the more I am convinced that the one thing worth living for and dying for is the privilege of making someone more happy and more useful. No person who ever does anything to lift their fellows ever makes a sacrifice." (*)
Booker T. Washington

* "I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
Martha Washington

* "The future is a concept--it doesn't exist! There is no such thing as tomorrow! There never will be because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now."
Alan Watts

* "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself inour hands and hopes we've learnt something from yesterday."
John Wayne

* "A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds. . . . An obligation which goes unrecognized by anybody loses none of the full force of its existence. A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much."
Simone Weil

* "The 'preferred future'--an image of aspiration--[is] a powerful guidance mechanism. . . . When people plan present actions by working backward from what is really desired, they develop energy, enthusiasm, optimism and high commitment."
Marvin Weisbord

* "It is the business of the statesman to provide a decent burial for the past and to facilitate the birth of the future."
Victor Wellesley

* "The school will teach children how to read, but the environment of the home must teach them what to read. The school can teach them how to think but the home must teach them what to believe."
Charles A. Wells

* "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrope."
H.G. Wells

* "God damn you all: I told you so."
H.G. Wells

* "I wake up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day a little difficult."
E.B. White

* "A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civiliztion is in full decay."
Alfred North Whitehead

* "The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used."
Alfred North Whitehead

* "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
Alfred North Whitehead

* "It is the duty of the future to be dangerous."
Alfred North Whitehead

* "The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. . . . Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."
Alfred North Whitehead

* "Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

* "Talk happiness. The world is sad enough
Without your woe. No path is wholly rough."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

* "So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

* "I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde

* "Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skins."
Wendell Willkie

* "All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape."
Angus Wilson

* "If an idea cannot be expressed in terms of people, it is sure sign it is irrelevant to the real problems of life."
Colin Wilson

* "If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself."
Woodrow Wilson

* "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
Woodrow Wilson

* "I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow."
Woodrow Wilson

* "Liberty never came from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistence. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it."
Woodrow Wilson

* "My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
Oprah Winfrey

* "It is creative perception more than anything else that makes the individual feel that life is worth living."
D.W. Winnicott

* "Human beings are not animals; they are animals plus a wealth of fantasy, psyche, soul, or inner world potential or whatever you will."
D.W. Winnicott

* "Our power to think things out about human nature . . . is liable to be blocked by our fear of the full implication of what we find."
D.W. Winnicott

* "Creativity is the retention throughout life of something that belongs properly to infant experience: the ability to create the world. . . . By creative living I mean not getting killed or annihilated all the time by compliance or by reacting to the world that impinges; I mean seeing everything afresh all the time. . . . When we are surprised at ourselves we are being creative, and we find we can trust our own unexpected originality."
D.W. Winnicott

* "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."
Ludwig Wittgenstein

* "Be!
Be!
The past is dead.
Tomorrow is not yet born.
Be today!
Today!
Be with every nerve,
With every fibre,
With every drop of your red blood!
Be!
Be!"
P.G. Wodehouse (Rocky Todd in The Aunt and the Sluggard)

* "We argue with ourselves: 'I should be doing something useful. But the truth is I can't do anything usefulk if there's no I to do it.' . . . That is what going into the chrysalis is all about--undergoing a metamorphosis in order one day to stand up and say I am."
Marion Woodman (The Pregnant Virgin)

* "To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."
Virginia Woolf

* "If all the good people were clever,
And all the clever people were good,
The world would be nicer than ever
We thought that it possibly could.
But somehow, 'tis seldom or never
The two hit it off as they should;
The good are so harsh to the clever,
The clever so rude to the good!"
Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth

* "To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What Man has made of Man."
William Wordsworth

* "The child is the father to the man."
William Wordsworth

* "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!"
William Wordsworth

* "Not in Utopia--subterranean fields,--
Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where!
But in the very world, which is the world
Of all of us,--the place where in the end
We find our happiness, or not at all!"
William Wordsworth

* "Enough, if something fro our hands have power
To live, and act, and serve the future hour;
And if, as toward the silent tomb we go,
Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower,
We feel that we are greater than we know."
William Wordsworth

* "That best portion of a good man's life,
His little nameless unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love."
William Wordsworth

* "Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science."
William Wordsworth

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* "Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because they like it, and one thing supremely well because they detest it."
B.W.M. Young

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* "Sitting in front of his master, the student posed the question, 'All the mountains, rivers, lakes, the earth, the sun, the moon and the stars, where do they come from?' In answer, the master replied, 'Where does your question come from?'"
Zen story

* "I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
Zhuangzi, 369-286 B.C.

* "One of the principal purposes of the modern enterprise is the expansion of knowledge--not knowledge for its own sake, but knowledge that comes to reside at the core of what it means to be productive."
Shoshana Zuboff (In the Age of the Smart Machine)

* "Science creates the future without knowing what the future will be. If science knew tomorrow's discovery they would make it."
Sir Solly Zuckerman

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