#ma

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#enthusiasm #great #ideas #man #resulted

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#because #discouraged #failure #far #find

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#anyone #because #comedians #interesting #kind

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#bent #britain #corporation #effectively #influence

I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses of covert surveillance. I suspect that emails will be the next scandal. And devices that track people moving around. That's just starting to come out. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#around #certain #come #covert #detailed

When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#great #makes #material #me #movies

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#dumb #i #information #just #thoroughly

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#describe #got #problem #science #things

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#comic strip #doll #hobbes #i #issue

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. ↗

— Alan Watts

#fear #flourish #future #guilt #heart