W Quotes
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“What one fool can do another can.”
Source: Calculus Made Easy: Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus
“What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.”
“What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.”
“What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.”
“What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.”
“What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.”
“What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.”
“What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.”
Source: My Life (Revised and Updated)
“What one has to do usually can be done.”
Source: Autobiography
“What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.”
“What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.”
“What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy.”
Source: Things Invisible to See
“What one heart finds in Him is so different than what another discovers, yet none less true.”
Source: Deep Unto Deep: The Journey of His Embrace
“What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.”
“What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.”
“What one leads on-sight, in good, strong style, safely, is what one's ability is.”
Source: How to be a master climber in six easy lessons
“What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.”
Source: Silk and Secrets
“What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.”
“What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.”
“What one man can invent, another can discover.”
“What one man can think, another man can do.”
“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and known and desired! And one boils over with excitement, and, shutting the book even with a kind of reverence as if it were something very precious, a stand-by to return to as long as one lives, one puts it back on the shelf.”
Source: A Room of One’s Own
“What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.”
Source: Northanger abbey
“What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.”
Source: God in the Dock
“What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?”
Source: Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
“What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known we hunt in packs. And now I come to finish you.”
Source: Hagridden
“What one once sought becomes one when sighted.”
“What one person calls miracle, I call nature.”
Source: Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
“What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.”
“What one person does, several people usually consider.”
Source: Hawksong
“What one person might call sorrowful loneliness, another might call the joyful act of accumulating peace of mind!”
“What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.”
“What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.”
“What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.”
“What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'”
“What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.”
Source: Her Brothers Her Journal
“What one realizes there is that we are not in control of the [reddit] community, in any way, shape or form. We have no power over it and so we've lost this total control.”
“What one relishes, nourishes.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.”
“What one side considers a defense the other considers a threat. In the vortex of the struggle, each is trapped by his own fearful outlook and by his fear of the other; each moves and is moved within a circle both vicious and lethal.”
“What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future.”
“What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.”
“What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life?”
“What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? Quadrant II activities have that kind of impact. Our effectiveness takes quantum leaps when we do them.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that what this old world needs is just the art of being kind? Every time I visit a factory or any other large business concern, I find myself trying to diagnose whether the atmosphere is one of kindliness or the reverse. And somehow, if there is palpably lacking that spirit of kindness, the owners ... have fallen short of achieving 24-carat success no matter how imposing the financial balance sheet may be.”
“What one thinks continually, they become; what one cherishes in their heart and mind they make a part of the pulsation of their heart, through their own blood cells, and build in their own physical, that which its spirit and soul must feed upon, and that with which it will be possessed, when it passes into the realm for which the other experiences of what it has gained here in the physical plane, must be used.”
“What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right.”
“What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good.”
Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
“What one understands is darshan (vision) and to give that understanding to others (so that he also understands) it is Gnan (knowledge).”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization