W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What people really want to know from their doctor is, are you going to make me feel better? And what they really want to know from a president are, are you going to give me some security when it comes to my work? Because if I'm not working, my family is in trouble. And when I am working, the fact of the matter is, my whole family is doing better.”
“What people really want, no matter who they are, is someone to listen to them. ... people have a lot on their minds, however trivial, and if you're simply willing to sit there like a sack of dirt and let them yammer, they will tell it to you.”
“What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.”
“What people refer to as nerds or geeks, all they really are is people who are passionate about what they like, and aren't afraid of it. To me, it's very frustrating when people are discourage from being enthusiastic about things. This idea of the geek, or the nerd; all that person really is - and I would consider myself one - is someone who is not ashamed of liking what they enjoy.”
“What people referred me as is the Father of Manitoba.”
“What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.”
Source: The diary of a magus
“What people resist is not change per se, but loss.”
Source: Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)
“What people say about others' behavior or character is not always true, Just Proffer it to your best judgement.”
“What people say about you, good or bad, is not nearly as important as what you are.”
“What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.”
“What people say doesn't really matter. It's best to just brush it off and move on.”
“What people say is not wrong; it is worldly (laukik). Where there are people, there will always be worldly things, however talks that are beyond the world (alaukik), is completely different from these worldly talks. Everything that you have learnt so far, from the perspective of alaukik [that which is beyond the world] knowledge, is incorrect. Therefore from today onwards, put a cross over it and discard the old knowledge.”
Source: Non-Violence: Ahimsa
“What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.”
“What people say often precedes what they think. Some people sometimes say, "I have to hear myself talk before I know what I think." I think language sometimes, because it opens new channels, it opens new doors, is enormously important.”
“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”
“What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.”
“What people see in the news are places where things have not going so well.”
“What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.”
“What people see you do may not be remembered; what they hear you say may be forgotten; but how they feel your intervention in their times of need will forever be remembered.”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“What people should do is explain to their friends, to their neighbors how they feel when they confront the word n - - and why they feel the way they feel.”
“What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.”
“What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.”
“What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man
“What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of Jewry was the necessary condition for the rise and expansion of Nazism, so the ethnic cleansing of Germans was a precondition for the Stalinization of Poland. I first noticed this point when reading an essay by the late Ernest Gellner, who at the end of the war had warned Eastern Europeans that collective punishment of Germans would put them under Stalin's tutelage indefinitely. They would always feel the guilty need for an ally against potential German revenge.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.”
“What people tell you and how they act is very, very different sometimes.”
“What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to learn about losing and having bad races.”
“What people that are professionals in the art world - both in literature and the other arts - always try to do is to recognize the feasibility of making the transition from the particular to the general - to make the transition from the portrait of one postman - to take Van Gogh, for example, to something that is every postman. That synecdotal transition that most selfies don't make. But we who live in this world, and not simply in our private realities, understand that that's the transition our art has to make.”
“What people that town produces! Nothing but dead, useless things come out of the town and can pass across the borders. Perhaps we used to be something like that ... there's no one here but people who never learned to make their fortune in town. And people who prefer misfortune out here to misfortune in town. Out here, it has the advantage that it can't be confused with fortune. Here no one needs to deceive himself. Here no one needs to forget.”
Source: The Tidings of the Trees
“What people that town produces! Nothing but dead, useless things come out of the town and can pass across the borders. Perhaps we used to be something like that ... there's no one here but people who never learned to make their fortune in town. Out here, it has the advantage that it can't be confused with fortune. Here no one needs to deceive himself. Here no one needs to forget.”
Source: The Tidings of the Trees
“What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the world of headlines you learn there is not one truth but two: the one which you know from the facts; and the one which the public, or at any rate a highly imaginative part of the public, acquires by osmosis.”
Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
“What people think about you is their business, not yours.”
Source: Slate
“What people think improvisation is and non-improvisation is, it's nothing to do with what you like or dislike. It's all about how it happens with certain directors and certain scenes. That's the way it works. It's not something, in general, that you can decide.”
“What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.”
“What people think of you is none of your business.”
“What people think of you is only what they think of themselves. They look at you and see the maladies, the faults they've been carrying within themselves for the longest time. And they identified each flaw they found exactly because of this familiarity and acquaintance with their very own symptoms. How else did they recognize them in you?”
“What people think or say or the image society projects about you never tells the whole story.”
Source: Pursuit of Personal Leadership: Practical Principles of Personal Achievement
“What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation.”
Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses
“What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.”
“What people want is perfection," said the man. "In themselves." "But they need the steps to it to be pointed out," said the woman. "In a simple order," said the man. "With encouragement," said the woman. "And a positive attitude.”
“What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.”
“What people want, above all, is order.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.”
Source: The Jagged Orbit
“What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.”
“What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It proceeds from your unconscious. So it's the same surprise to you when it emerges as it is to the audience when the comic says it. I don't think of the joke and then say it. I say it and then realize what I've said. And I laugh at it, because I'm hearing it for the first time myself.”
“What people will do to get away from boredom!”
“What people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts”
“What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say about the tithe, which means, "tenth." For some people, that's extremely uncomfortable. But so is a colonoscopy, and those save countless lives.”