#trouble

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it. ↗

— John Waters

#i wish #maybe #me #something #then

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#could #devices #easily #hard #hard work

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#better #challenges #command #control #crises

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#control #created #order #organizations #ourselves

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#christ #comes #energy #evil #expense

The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress. ↗

— Charles Erwin Wilson

#lot #making #must #price #progress

Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#every #every time #first #good #good student

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father. ↗

— Toby Young

#classic #difficult #down #father #find

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#brother #brother and sister #child #doing #freedom

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#general #instead #love #much #music