#double

The way to succeed is to double your error rate. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#error #rate #succeed #way #your

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#failure #increase #rate #success #want

I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#days #double #feeling #five #gave

Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword. ↗

— Charles D. Ellison

#discourse #double-edged #double-edged sword #full #open

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#debt #doubled #economic #in the past #municipal

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#attention #doubles #media #personality #public

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#been #blessed #brilliant #debt #directions

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#because #double #fat #feel #girl

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#confused #decided #double #even #everybody