#table

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#between #century #come #comfortable #done

It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#build #class #company #computer #demanding

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#color #colors #earth #rather #ripeness

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions. ↗

— Cornel West

#act #actions #believe #black #criticism

One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#actually #agricultural #any #broad-based #california

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#business #changes #continue #control #create

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable. ↗

— Steve Womack

#constituents #did #down #government #here

My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases. ↗

— Shinya Yamanaka

#cell #clinical #conduct #decade #develop

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#best #camera #comfortable #creek #dawson

Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart or because you're dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others. ↗

— Heather Wilson

#also #because #children #comfortable #deal