
Watson, Jr. cited in: Joseph Mancuso (1975) Managing technology products. p. 160.
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Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
Watson, Jr. cited in: Joseph Mancuso (1975) Managing technology products. p. 160.
1950s, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
Context: The individual who is self-centered, the individual who is egocentric ends up being very sensitive, a very touchy person. And that is one of the tragic effects of a self-centered attitude, that it leads to a very sensitive and touchy response toward the universe. These are the people you have to handle with kid gloves because they are touchy, they are sensitive. And they are sensitive because they are self-centered. They are too absorbed in self and anything gets them off, anything makes them angry. Anything makes them feel that people are looking over them because of a tragic self-centeredness. That even leads to the point that the individual is not capable of facing trouble and the hard moments of life. One can become so self-centered, so egocentric that when the hard and difficult moments of life come, he cannot face them because he’s too centered in himself. These are the people who cannot face disappointments. These are the people who cannot face being defeated. These are the people who cannot face being criticized. These are the people who cannot face these many experiences of life which inevitably come because they are too centered in themselves. In time, somebody criticizes them, time somebody says something about them that they don’t like too well, time they are disappointed, time they are defeated, even in a little game, they end up broken-hearted. They can’t stand up under it because they are centered in self.
On Coalition Government (1945)
So don't worry if now your time is bad it's making you strong so nothing can effect you in future
“Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.”
cited in A Little Book of Aphorisms (New York: 1947), p. 186.
“Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.”
Meditations. ii. 7.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
1930s, Mortals and Others (1931-35)
“The "good old times" — all times when old are good —
Are gone.”
St. 1.
The Age of Bronze (1823)