#out

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#between #build #building #customer #destroy

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

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#differently #each #i #live #looked

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#conversational #equivalent #experience #out #sort

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

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. ↗

— Alan Watts

#defined #everything #impossible #loving #other

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. ↗

— Alan Watts

#confuse #does #god #just #peel

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. ↗

— Alan Watts

#become #faith #go #let go #might

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it. ↗

— Vince Gill

#funny #funny thing #going #into #majority

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