#nat

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#car #like #mind #off #process

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. ↗

— Alan Watts

#enjoy #great #how #imagination #know

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. ↗

— Alan Watts

#becomes #certain #clings #faith #fanatic

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. ↗

— Alan Watts

#completely #different #god #mosque #natural

For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#been #black #black community #claimed #community

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#been #before #die #driven #eight

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#born #buddy #called #children #community

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#carpet #come #comfortable #explaining #feel

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#any #avoid #behavior #being #communication

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#dying #i #national #quotation #vice