Thomas J. Watson Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

John Ralston Saul

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I never expected to become a director. It never occurred to me to come to America, to Hollywood. It's all been a wonderful accident. I'm still amazed every time I finish a film.

Stephen Frears

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You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.

Steven Pinker

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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

Tori Amos

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To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

Trevor McDonald

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If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

Romain Rolland

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I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.

Mickey Rourke

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Room service is great if you want to pay $500 for a club sandwich.

Don Rickles

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TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.

Drew Carey

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When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

David Steinberg

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I'm extremely easy to watch. I think I'm generally handsome, charming.

Chip Gaines

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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

Boris Johnson

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