W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What makes one person approachable and another one not? That simple difference alone can make or break your success in your life, in your relationships, and in your career.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“What makes one's life meaningful is not it's volume, but value.”
“What makes our marriage holy, what makes it "set apart" and sacramental, isn't the marriage certificate filed away in the basement or the degree to which we follow a list of rules and roles, it's the way God shows up in those everyday moments - loading the dishwasher, sharing a joke, hosting a meal, enduring an illness, working through a disagreement - and gives us the chance to notice, to pay attention to the divine. It's the way the God of resurrection makes all things new.”
“What makes our mind and chit go astray and wild is all kusang (negative association; anything that takes you away from the Self, the Pure Soul). That which pacifies the mind and chit is satsang (company of eternal truth).”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.”
“What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?”
“What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.”
“What makes people angry and we are on the side of hard-working people who want to get on in life and they see how government is wasting their money.”
“What makes people different is because of what they know”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“What makes people good communicators is, in essence, an ability not to be fazed by the more problematic or offbeat aspects of their own characters. They can contemplate their anger, their sexuality and their unpopular, awkward or unfashionable opinions without losing confidence or collapsing into self-disgust. They can speak clearly because they have managed to develop a priceless sense of their own acceptability. They like themselves well enough to believe that they are worthy of and can win the goodwill of others, if only they have the wherewithal to present themselves with the right degree of patience and imagination.
As children, these good communicatiors must have been blessed with caregivers who knew to love their charges without demanding that every last thing about them be agreeable and perfect. Such parents would have been able to live with the idea that their offsping might sometimes - for a while, at least - be odd, violent, angry, mean, peculiar or sad, and yet still deserve a place within the circle of familial love. The parents would thus have created an invaluable wellspring of courage from which those children would eventually be able to draw to sustain the confessions and direct conversations of adult life.”
Source: The Course of Love
“What makes people good communicators is, in essence, an ability not to be fazed by the more problematic or offbeat aspects of their own characters. They can contemplate their anger, their sexuality, and their unpopular, awkward, or unfashionable opinions without losing confidence or collapsing into self-disgust. They can speak clearly because they have managed to develop a priceless sense of their own acceptability. They like themselves well enough to believe that they are worthy of, and can win, the goodwill of others if only they have the wherewithal to present themselves with the right degree of patience and imagination.
As children, these good communicators must have been blessed with caregivers who knew how to love their charges without demanding that every last thing about them be agreeable and perfect. Such parents would have been able to live with the idea that their offspring might sometimes—for a while, at least—be odd, violent, angry, mean, peculiar, or sad, and yet still deserve a place within the circle of familial love.”
Source: The Course of Love
“What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.”
“What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.”
Source: Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga
“What makes people interesting is the spirit that shines through.”
“What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.”
“What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ("Give me more images")”
“What makes people want to live forever? I don't think it's limited to our materialistic society of today. Even back to Christian times, they were writing about eternal life after death. So even in death there was a discussion of eternal life. I think this is a universal human desire. It's a horrible thought that this conscious being of ours - with our beautiful bodies - is one day going to decay and die. I don't think it so much has to do with the fear of meeting God, as it is just the thought that this all ends.”
“What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.”
“What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”
Source: Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography
“What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.”
Source: The Wisdom of Goethe
“What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression”
Source: The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
“What makes racism such a strong indictment on the entire human race is that the Bible makes it crystal clear that we’re all made in God’s image. Not only that, we are the way we are because God chose to make us this way.”
“What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.”
“What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people. I'm talking about movement - screenwriting is related to math and music, and if you zig here, you know you have to zag there. It's like the descriptions for a piece of music - you go fast or slow or with feeling. It's the same.”
“What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure”
“What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.”
“What makes Siri cool is she has a personality.”
“What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.”
Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses
“What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.”
“What makes someone irresistible,
is not their looks,
but the way they can make your mind tickle,
your heart race and your soul smile, all at once.”
“What makes something art is its inherent lack of direct utility while, at the same time, if it's considered good art, it is influential in changing how we perceive reality and this then affects how we behave and perhaps coordinate”
Source: Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It
“What makes something better is connection.”
“What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.”
Source: Living with Complexity
“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.”
“What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.”
“What makes space possible? Just of itself, space is nothing. But without nothingness, there is no space. Space is made only from nothingness. Without Nothingness, the Absolute would not be complete, and there would be no potential for space in the world. Absolute would be impossible without nothingness. Absolute, without the void, is zero, and the void, without the Absolute, is zero. Zero can only be equal to itself, which means that even in the supposed separation of the Absolute from zero, they become the same and only one—Zero.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.”
“What makes Steve [Jobs'] methodology different from everyone else's is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do. He's a minimalist.”
“What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.”
“What makes success is not your genius idea, but the execution and follow-through around it”
“What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.” – Christopher Reeve”
“What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.”
“What makes that record special is something that is gone from music today - it's called a rhythm section.”
“What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.”
“What makes the Arctic VarChar so unusual and popular is that each bite has a different taste. As you carve your way into the ersatz fillet, you might find yourself chewing on smoked salmon, tender tuna, marinated mackerel, seared snapper, raw roe, baked barracuda, grilled goldfish, or even pickled perch, to alliterate just a few.”
Source: The Scriptlings
“What makes the best the best is they never actually think they're the best.”
“What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything.”
Source: Moody's Stories: Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”