#use

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

— Bill Watterson

#dumb #i #information #just #thoroughly

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

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

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. ↗

— Alan Watts

#believe #born #defend #estates #heirs

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. ↗

— Alan Watts

#go #impoverished #live #present #reason

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#change #everything #hardly #hotel #hotel room

A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#better #hear #i #lot #mixing

I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#because #bill #changes #chord #follow

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#adulation #because #being #drums #fell

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? ↗

— J. C. Watts

#agree #analyses #believing #cannot #competing