W Quotes
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“What is of essential importance is the impact that being autistic has on a person at any given time. This can range from horrifically negative right through to sublimely positive -- and sometimes both can be found in the same individual. So, if this dramatic difference can be seen at different times in the same person -- what 'grade' is that person? Clearly, this is where the whole notion of 'autism severity' crumbles.”
Source: Autism and Asperger Syndrome in Adults
“What is of great importance is that everyone should concern himself with what I am saying, rather than with the personality of the Teacher, the body of the Teacher, where He dwells, and so on. That will lead to confusion.”
“What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform.”
“What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.”
Source: A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice
“What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.”
Source: The Art of War
“What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.”
“What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual expression which intrigues the viewer and forces him to think.”
“What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.”
“What is often being argued, it seems to me, in the idea of nature is the idea of man; and this not only generally, or in ultimate ways, but the idea of man in society, indeed the ideas of kinds of societies.”
“What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.”
Source: Song in a weary throat: an American pilgrimage
“What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.”
“What is often required
Is just a little courage
To actually walk the road!
Dead ends will always be there,
But within you lights a lamp
Which shall make you push and shove
All the endings,
Transforming them
Into new beginnings!”
Source: the frozen evenings
“What is oinkiness?" asked Cardinal Bird
Oh, don't you know? You haven't heard?
said The Owl who was kind and wise,
When you meet The Moon Pig
you'll be surprised ...
Luna has oinkiness
and has it lots!
You've either got it
or you have not!”
“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.”
Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays
“What is once well done is done forever.”
“What is one common thing every one craves for? It is love... Love others unconditionally, honestly and truthfully. When you fill your being with love, you make yourself healthier and happier.”
Source: Voyage to Happiness!
“What is one man among so many men?
What are so many men in such a world?
Can one man think one thing and think it long?
Can one man be one thing and be it long?”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“What is one man's gain is another's loss.”
“What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.”
“What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.”
“What is one of the easiest things in the world? Finding people you can't get along with! Yes, it's very easy!”
“What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.”
Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra
“What is one person's pleasure is another's poison.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“What is one thing you can do to smile and feel good, even when you are sad (exercise, walk in nature, read, watch a funny movie, play a game, paint, bake, dance to music, volunteer, or even daydream)?”
Source: Sadness is a Dark Cloud
“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.”
Source: Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur
“What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”
“What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.”
Source: A Backward Glance
“What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.”
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
“What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?”
Source: The Sad Fortunes Of The Reverend Amos Barton
“What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.”
“What is 'optimism'?" asked Cacambo.
"It's the madness of maintaining that everything is good even though things are going badly.”
Source: Candide
“What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content.”
Source: Adorno
“What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.”
“What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.”
“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.”
Source: Assessments and Anticipations
“What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong.”
“What is our family? We touch our full hearts and see ourselves reflected whole in each other's eyes.”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“What is our hope but the indwelling Spirit of Christ, to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, to inspire every word and deed by His love? Then will "broken lights" blend in steady shining, the fractional be summed up in the integral, and life, unified and beautified by the central Christ, radiate God's glory, and shine with divine effulgence.”
Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
“What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.”
Source: Complete Poems
“What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?”
“What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?”
“What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.”
Source: Sir Walter Raleigh: Selected Prose and Poetry
“What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.”
“What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit?”
“What is our recourse, Mr. Speaker? What is our remedy?”
“What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.”
“What is our UN-VICE in the context of Disruption 3.0?
To sum up, UN-VICE is an updated way of capturing the state of the world. Framing the dynamics of systemic disruption as UNknown, Volatile, Intersecting, Complex, Exponential enables an empowering response. We are not helpless victims unable to make decisions. With UN-VICE, we have the power to shape our own futures.
KEY POINTS: OUR UN-VICE ACRONYM
- UNknown: Uncertainty becomes our comfort zone. Recognize you can’t know anything perfectly and many decisions are based on assumptions. Increased uncertainty lowers the value of advice and requires increased self-reliance. Learn how to respond regardless of the lack of precedents.
- Volatile: Harness change for gain. Our world, and change itself, is evolving faster than ever before. Volatility is not new; we simply can’t ignore its impact. In volatility, we see the shifting speed and texture of the changing environment.
- Intersecting: Everything connects to everything else. The broader our lens, the greater the insights gained from realizing how boundaries are disappearing.
- Complex: Notice emergent properties and adapt. In complex environments, inputs do not map clearly to outputs. Practitioners must acknowledge emergent properties and reconcile the immediate with the indefinite. Such systems require critical thinking, experimentation, and judgment. Evaluate emerging issues, build resiliency, and learn to adapt to expanding complexity.
- Exponential: Pay attention to nonlinear types of change that increase in growth rate. Notice rapid acceleration of seemingly small shifts. Monitoring early on will mean fewer surprises.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.”
“What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.”
Source: Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer
“What is Outsourcing?
"Outsourcing" is the short form of the English word Outside Resourcing.
The term outsourcing was first coined around 1989 and was first seen as a business strategy. Later in the 1990s, this subject was included as an important component of business economics. Since then people started to have various interests in outsourcing.
Out means 'Outside' and source means 'Source'.
In other words, the whole meaning of Outsourcing is "to bring work from an external source".
Here are the key aspects of outsourcing:
1. Opportunities: It can encompass a wide range of functions including customer support, information technology services, human resources functions, manufacturing, accounting, marketing, and more.
2. Benefits: Outsourcing offers several benefits including cost savings, access to specialized skills and technology, increased efficiency, scalability, and ability to focus on core competencies.
3. Global Reach: Outsourcing is not restricted by geographical boundaries. That's why companies can engage service providers from around the world to access global talent pools and cost advantages.
4. Types of Outsourcing: Outsourcing can be divided into several categories. Such as Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO), Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO), and many more depending on the nature of the service being outsourced.
5. Challenges: Although outsourcing can offer many benefits. It also presents challenges related to data security, communication, cultural differences, and the need for effective management of outsourcing relationships.
6. Outsourcing model: Companies can choose from several outsourcing models, including offshoring (outsourcing to a service provider in another country), nearshoring (outsourcing to a service provider in a nearby country), and onshoring (outsourcing to a service provider within the same country).
Outsourcing means the process of taking the work of an organization or company from an external source. For example – “You Can't find any qualified person within the company to do a job in your company. So you offer some money to an outside freelancer to do the job and he agrees to do the job. Well, that's called outsourcing”.
Simply put, outsourcing is basically the payment you pay a freelancer to do the work they are good at.”