#apt

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. ↗

— Ted Turner

#captain #environmental movement #father #i #i think

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#adapt #case #faster #inventions #make

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere. ↗

— Arthur E. Waite

#business #canons #either #evidence #faculty

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#attitude #birth #criterion #edge #gifted

I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me! ↗

— Lech Walesa

#believe #chatting #computers #connected #course

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#complex #country #desire #dialogue #even

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. ↗

— John E. Walker

#captain #cricket #i #keen #school

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#common #common man #deceit #directed #eternal

Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#beauty

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#after #army #captain #come #end