Alan W. Livingston quote: "I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people crazy. But on the other hand, when people around me are sloppy, that drives me crazy."

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into ...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON

My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I t...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON

I read somewhere once that you could be whatever you wanted. As long as I could remember, I was dete...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON

I don't like to leave anything unfinished. I have an absolute need to see that every phone call ...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON

The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything ...
RICHARD W. LIVINGSTON

The menu is not the meal.
ALAN W. WATTS

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
ALAN W. WATTS

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of ...
ALAN W. WATTS

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called prese...
ALAN W. WATTS

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which i...
ALAN W. WATTS

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and ...
ALAN W. WATTS

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN W. WATTS

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN W. WATTS

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the oce...
ALAN W. WATTS

Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture,...
ALAN W. WATTS

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, every...
ALAN W. WATTS

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN W. WATTS

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own....
ALAN W. WATTS

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepe...
ALAN W. WATTS

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's u...
ALAN W. WATTS

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As i...
ALAN W. WATTS

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
ALAN W. WATTS

It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And i...
ALAN W. WATTS

We remain dissatisfied in the overall sales performance of our Circuit City business, ... no new tre...
W. ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely was...
ALAN W. WATTS

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One lear...
ALAN W. WATTS

To Taoism that which is absolutely still or absolutely perfect is absolutely dead, for without the p...
ALAN W. WATTS

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but infe...
ALAN W. WATTS

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. Our donation i...
W. ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
ALAN W. WATTS

The source of all light is in the eye.
ALAN W. WATTS

In a relativistic universe you don't cling to anything, you learn to swim. And you know what swimmin...
ALAN W. WATTS

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
ALAN W. WATTS

The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that mos...
ALAN W. WATTS

Continued strength of the consumer electronics and home office categories and the recent substantial...
W. ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

Although we had anticipated modest sales disruption related to our exit from the appliance business ...
W. ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
ALAN W. WATTS

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, bec...
ALAN W. WATTS

We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in...
ALAN W. WATTS

What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the ...
ALAN W. WATTS

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," th...
ALAN W. WATTS

Near term, we have seen a softening in our business, coincident with the onset of the war with Iraq....
W. ALAN MCCOLLOUGH

Confucians, along with Hebrew, Islamic, and Catholic scholastics, as well as Protestant fundamentali...
ALAN W. WATTS

Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars...
ALAN W. WATTS

By itself, a tree is meaningless, but it is the meaning of the word “tree.
ALAN W. WATTS

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said...
ALAN W. WATTS

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
ALAN W. WATTS

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
ALAN W. WATTS

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to ...
ALAN W. WATTS

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conv...
ALAN W. WATTS

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
ALAN W. WATTS

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in prin...
ALAN W. WATTS

If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this...
ALAN W. WATTS

The natural world gives us many examples of the great effectiveness of this way. The Chinese philoso...
ALAN W. WATTS

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each o...
ALAN W. WATTS

Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writ...
ALAN W. WATTS

Discord on one level is harmony on another
ALAN W. WATTS

when somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand t...
ALAN W. WATTS

Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many...
ALAN W. WATTS

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that ther...
ALAN W. WATTS

If there was one overriding element to Faraday's character, it was humility. His 'conviction of defi...
ALAN W. HIRSHFELD

I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN W. WATTS

Although the rhythm of the waves beats a kind of time, it is not clock or calendar time. It has no u...
ALAN W. WATTS

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not ...
RON LIVINGSTON

There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making f...
RON LIVINGSTON

It's important to have all of them open because they're designed to function as a unit. The quality ...
BRAD LIVINGSTON

There's no longer just one restaurant. We're trying to blend local flavor of the area with some fran...
BRAD LIVINGSTON

We're confident in the market and we certainly will seek out carriers to fill that niche.
BRAD LIVINGSTON

With larger populations, they have more seats, more competition and a broader, more exhaustive list ...
BRAD LIVINGSTON

That would indicate to me that this community will support four frequencies (directly) to that marke...
BRAD LIVINGSTON

We'll continue to provide other services that make economic sense.
BRAD LIVINGSTON

For a freshman, she's as good as it gets, ... She comes from a tennis family, she's a nice girl and ...
BOB LIVINGSTON

I anticipate it won't make a great deal of difference. I await the findings of the Judiciary Committ...
BOB LIVINGSTON

I don't have any idea what we're going to do until the Judiciary Committee reports.
BOB LIVINGSTON

This is not something that should be taken lightly, it's not something that should invoke pressure f...
BOB LIVINGSTON

I fought every ... administration when they tried to use the Corps of Engineers as a piggy bank to p...
BOB LIVINGSTON

[Rep. Bob Livingston (R-Louisiana), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is considered th...
BOB LIVINGSTON

Fess Parker, when he played Davey Crockett, he had long hair. In Lubbock, everybody had to have a fl...
BOB LIVINGSTON

So I got my Cowboy stuff on... I'm doing this stuff all over India. I went to Pakistan, Sri Lanka, B...
BOB LIVINGSTON

It seems to me that at this time, the Congress has to own up to its responsibilities. Members of Con...
BOB LIVINGSTON

appears to be falling apart, tattered just in the last two years, unfortunately during your reign.
BOB LIVINGSTON

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these part...
BOB LIVINGSTON

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn'...
JESSICA LIVINGSTON

What about the whiskey?" Jack said as they ran. "Won't it keep them out?"
The Green Maidens don...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

What did the Faerie that attacked you look like?"
"Super creepy. Ripped jeans, weird tattoos, b...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its offi...
EDWARD LIVINGSTON

Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senio...
BOB LIVINGSTON

My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an ex...
RON LIVINGSTON

I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on o...
BOB LIVINGSTON

Don't ever say that, Fennrys," she said. "I don't ever want to hear you say that you don't de...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

When I first retired, I just needed to keep active, so I started coaching riders. But then (Ride for...
KEVIN LIVINGSTON

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.
EDWARD LIVINGSTON

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.
BOB LIVINGSTON

We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was ...
BOB LIVINGSTON

I'm in India at this point. I'm trying to figure out how I can get gigs there. Because an American c...
BOB LIVINGSTON

I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one s...
BOB LIVINGSTON

Then Willie Nelson hits town and comes to see us at a double concert at Mother Earth... he sees all ...
BOB LIVINGSTON

Music was big in the circles that I ran in, and they certainly weren't leftists or alienated. All th...
BOB LIVINGSTON

It was so intense! At the dance hall, people hanging out of the rafters! Everybody from Austin had c...
BOB LIVINGSTON

We have left the issue of impeachment to the consciences of the men and women in the Congress, ... U...
BOB LIVINGSTON

I have decided to inform my colleagues and constituents that during my 33-year marriage to my wife, ...
BOB LIVINGSTON

As a constitutional matter, I share your view that censure of the president would violate the carefu...
BOB LIVINGSTON

We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that mig...
BOB LIVINGSTON

The era of big spending is still with us, ... He promised everything to everybody.
BOB LIVINGSTON

stick to our principles and set reasonable goals for ourselves.
BOB LIVINGSTON

Frankly we haven't decided yet ... the Judiciary Committee has not completed its work.
BOB LIVINGSTON

I was a goodie-good kid; my parents both worked for the First Methodist Church in Lubbock. My father...
BOB LIVINGSTON

I try to spend some time in the street, cleaning up or whatever, ... I think the police are doing a ...
BOB LIVINGSTON

I don't anticipate a significant diminution of support for Republican efforts,
BOB LIVINGSTON

We are the majority -- have been the majority for the last four years, thanks to my friend Newt Ging...
BOB LIVINGSTON

My brother was one of the first guys that made tons of money doing this, playing in these ski-joints...
BOB LIVINGSTON

I wasn't really living anywhere... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in p...
BOB LIVINGSTON

I just wanted to make records, to be a musician full-time. I didn't know where I was gonna go, but I...
BOB LIVINGSTON

People say about Lubbock that everybody that comes out of there is either a musician or a dope deale...
BOB LIVINGSTON

That was about as bon vivant as you could be back then: knowing how to eat an artichoke! You come to...
BOB LIVINGSTON

Now it's a good time to leave the company, ... The stock price is up, and the company has spent all ...
DAVID LIVINGSTON

I never got to say goodbye to him,
DAVID LIVINGSTON

It's pretty standard for a new CEO to clean house,
DAVID LIVINGSTON

lifetime of pain and counseling.
DAVID LIVINGSTON

He knew how to make bombs. He made them and placed them. He blew up headquarters of the Nazi party o...
KEN LIVINGSTON

It is easy for politicians in the West to condemn acts of terror [said Mr. Livingston], but I knew s...
KEN LIVINGSTON

We just afford them taxi cab fare. You're car's available by the time you get back.
KEN LIVINGSTON

Yes. And also, if it's okay by you, I'd like to shut up now... Or possibly just go somewhere and swa...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

You know the life you have committed yourself to often ends in death.

All life does.
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong
GORDON LIVINGSTON

I should have been more aggressive. I was a little passive. That was my fault as a point guard.
SHAUN LIVINGSTON

That's obviously one perspective to it. The main focus is to be playing our best basketball when the...
SHAUN LIVINGSTON

Kelley. Your name is Kelley, isn't it?" He didn't wait for her confirmation. "Yes. Well. Tell me...t...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judg...
JESSICA LIVINGSTON

Well. I think it's safe to say that, in my absence, the power grabbing and backstabbing and politica...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

The Janus Guard will also be out that night,” he said, one hand reaching out to squeeze her should...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

There is a definite cost to doing nothing,
EDWARD LIVINGSTON

I think you have to take these numbers with a grain of salt, ... What this all means is really very ...
EDWARD LIVINGSTON

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, w...
EDWARD LIVINGSTON

I don't want you to get the impression we strong-armed them. We just said it would not be a good car...
DAVID LIVINGSTON

This is still pretty new and I haven't seen retailer results. But if it was a really successful prog...
DAVID LIVINGSTON

I don't expect Albertson's to make any capital improvements in the division.
DAVID LIVINGSTON

These people make some pretty high dollars, and they're usually 50 to 55 years old. It's not easy to...
DAVID LIVINGSTON

If Microsoft were to provide excellent installation, setup, and support for Linux, Microsoft would p...
BRIAN LIVINGSTON

This kind of penetration is what Microsoft sees as far more important than people buying it as upgra...
BRIAN LIVINGSTON

To bundle in (more software) looks to me like a very risky thing to do. They seem to want to get aud...
BRIAN LIVINGSTON

This oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or to the Ludu Achillea...but to our ...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

My gut feeling is they have no intention of operating supermarkets long-term. I think they want to p...
DAVID LIVINGSTON

These types of stores usually locate in an area where people have a higher education level, a higher...
DAVID LIVINGSTON

These guys were all rednecks, but they just loved music! We'd drive all the way down to San Antonio ...
BOB LIVINGSTON

Then I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead?
JAY LIVINGSTON

Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to tak...
JESSICA LIVINGSTON

A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regu...
JESSICA LIVINGSTON

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.
BOB LIVINGSTON

The question is do we make (the service) available to all broadband customers or only BT broadband c...
IAN LIVINGSTON

If somebody wants to make a bid and it is in the shareholders' interests, fine ... What I know is if...
IAN LIVINGSTON

We'll continue to buy additional businesses where they make sense.
IAN LIVINGSTON

We have spent tens of millions of pounds on it and we will spend more tens of millions of pounds.
IAN LIVINGSTON

No longer will BT customers be reliant on TV schedules.
IAN LIVINGSTON

It was a reasonable performance and it would have been good if it were not for mobile phones. We thi...
IAN LIVINGSTON

We continue to experience adverse general market trading conditions, ... We see no reason to expect ...
IAN LIVINGSTON

We know that many of our customers enjoy the convenience of their mobile phones when they're out and...
IAN LIVINGSTON

You get all the convenience and features of a mobile phone but with a fixed line cost and the qualit...
IAN LIVINGSTON

transform the communications landscape.
IAN LIVINGSTON

We want to make sure the World War II guys and the Korean (War) guys see that the museum is complete...
JAMES LIVINGSTON

We knew the expectation was that if they press us we?d fold under the pressure. But we turned it aro...
JAMES LIVINGSTON

Our heads were up too high. We got a little over-confident with those 16 wins.
JAMES LIVINGSTON

This garden is fabulous the loveliest spot on Earth is right here.
LINDA LIVINGSTON

We often handle judging for beautification awards in other cities.
LINDA LIVINGSTON

If we are to violate the Constitution, will the people submit to our unauthorized acts? Sir, they ou...
EDWARD LIVINGSTON

You just find a body. A big might box out a small, a small might have to box out a big.
SHAUN LIVINGSTON

When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten.
ROBERT E. LIVINGSTON

Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-ni...
W. WIRT

Poetry is the language of feeling.
W. WINTER

What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how...
W. MITCHELL

Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life d...
W. MITCHELL

Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in the crown of majesty.
W. SECKER

Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the ...
W. SECKER

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
W. FUSSELMAN

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become...
BILL W.

There are more references in the Koran than the Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus. -Julia W-.
JULIA W

VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix.
W. DAVIDSON

You'll never find another like me because im the original.
RACHEL W

You might as well be nice to everyone, because in the end if something happens to someone your mean/...
RACHEL W

I remember on that occasion, Roz invited a group of friends to gather around a festive table for a m...
W. HULL

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more c...
W. GLADDEN

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes its better to leave them broken instead of hurting yourself ...
ASHLEY W

Marriage is a mutual admiration society where one person is always right, the other is the husband.
W. GRANT

If we were to follow the format of Edith's memorial service, we would be here until next Wednesday,
W. HULL

Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to...
W. PATTERSON

Cheap things aren't good, and good things aren't cheap.
MARK W.

Every morning began with Roz getting her mother up, dressed and in a wheelchair, then going off to t...
W. HULL

When you come right down to it, the ground you stand on is the ground you stand on.
W. LEITZEN

We are hear to celebrate, and I mean celebrate, the unique and wonderful life of Rosamond McPherson ...
W. HULL

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS

I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS

Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT

I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people crazy. But on the other hand, when people around me are sloppy, that drives me crazy.

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I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people crazy. But on the other hand, when people around me are sloppy, that drives me crazy.

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