#idly

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. ↗

— Jack Welch

#action #advantage #competitive #competitive advantage #into

The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow. ↗

— Robert Welch

#deal #difference #endowed #great #great deal

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#first #first time #grow #i #invariably

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#age #ageing #anxiety #communicates #culture

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you? ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#am #everyone #i #i love #i remember

The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico. ↗

— Heather Wilson

#care #economy #families #growing #health

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#being #down #ever #everywhere #form

When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power. ↗

— Orville Wright

#develop #dropped #end #few #found

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#been #being #best #day #definition

So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don't anticipate it coming down rapidly. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#before #comes #coming #down #going