Thomas J. Watson Quotes

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Thomas J. Watson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 17, 1874 - June 19, 1956

Topics

SuccessFailureMistakesLearnYou

It was clear from the beginning that I was going to be a musician.

Andrew Gold

BeginningGoingClearMusician

Film has its own innate poetry.

John Hillcoat

PoetryOwnFilmInnate

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

Andy Taylor

MusicPeopleYouLookTouchOut

I want to be a top player.

Son Heung-min

WantTopPlayer

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.

Trisha Goddard

GodMyselfThinkingPlanFindNew

I know I play a lot of jocks, but I'm actually a really big board game and video game nerd. It's one of the most interesting fields of entertainment because you get to create your own role and create your own rules. Some people get so creative with it, and I'm also super competitive. I'm a really big nerd.

Ross Butler

CreativePeopleGameInterestingYou

I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I'm doing and noticing what I'm doing but is giving me time to figure it out. They don't jump right in and give you a note before you've had time to really search on your own with how to do a scene. I like a director that encourages me to be playful.

Julia Stiles

TimeMeSearchGivingDoingYou

My bedroom was filled with reading material: books salvaged from dustbins, books borrowed from friends, books with missing pages, books found in the street, abandoned, unreadable, torn, scribbled on, unloved, unwanted and dismissed. My bedroom was the Battersea Dogs' Home of books.

Christopher Fowler

HomeReadingFriendsStreetUnwanted

As fantastic as it is to have 'Vogue' and 'Vanity Fair' as places to work, I don't often get to shoot the kind of things I like to photograph in the way I like to photograph.

Annie Leibovitz

WorkVanityKindPlacesWayFair

Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there were no swipe fees at all. Merchants can't negotiate or control them. They've tried, but they have no leverage against the big banks and issuers. So they get ignored.

Peter Welch

ControlCardsIntroductionLeverage

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

Shia LaBeouf

PerceptionSkillImportantSometimes

Society is indeed better off when we share knowledge with one another and have open debates about the issues in the public arena, with the hands and motives of the players identified.

Sheldon Whitehouse

KnowledgeSocietyBetterHandsOpen

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