W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.”
“What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years.”
Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].”
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!”
“What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.”
“What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.”
“What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.”
Source: Rosie Dunne
“What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?”
“What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding because you aren't fighting yourself along the way.”
“What self-respecting male wanted a job being photographed?”
Source: Wild Orchids
“What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony and bloody sweat, and when He died on the cross, which was the greatest thing that ever the eyes of angels beheld. Christ could accomplish other parts of this work without cost; but this part cost Him His life, as well as innumerable pains and labors. Yet this is the part which self-righteous persons go about to accomplish for themselves.”
Source: A History of the Work of Redemption: Comprising an Outline of Church History
“What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.”
“What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.”
“What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?”
“What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.”
Source: Her Brothers Her Journal
“What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?”
Source: Selected Writings
“What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on the basis of their transient location in the income stream. If most Americans do not stay in the same broad income bracket for even a decade, their repeatedly changing 'class' makes class itself a nebulous concept. Yet the intelligentsia are habituated, if not addicted, to seeing the world in class terms.”
Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
“What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.”
“What senses do we lack that we can not see or hear another world all around us?”
Source: DUNE
“What sensible people have got to do is not simply repeal the Affordable Care Act without any alternative, but you've got to sit down and say it's OK, what are the problems. How do we address it? How do we move to universal health care? How do we lower prescription drug costs? How do we make sure that people don't have outrageous deductibles? You just don't throw 20 million people off of health insurance. You don't privatize Medicare.”
“What sensitive, sane soul can stand in the presence of such insanity and do nothing? Yet to expose the slaughter of seals in Canada is to deliver oneself into the hands of a bureaucratic inquisition. To witness the killing of a seal is a crime. To film or photograph the slaughter is a felony. To oppose the massacre is to subject oneself to jail time, beatings, heavy fines, and officially sanctioned harassment. - Paul Watson”
“What sentence will you choose to impose on yourself? Are you willing to stop suffering and making yourself miserable when your sentence has expired? This would at least be a responsible way to punish yourself because it would be time-limited.”
Source: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
“What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.”
Source: The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist
“What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.”
“What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead.”
“What separates a weak dreamer and a great dreamer is who is wishing and waiting or who is willing and working.”
Source: You Can Rise
“What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.”
“What separates angels from ghosts is beauty.
To be haunted
is to be cared for in reverse.
To feel so loved by an absence
that you fear it.”
“What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.”
“What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.”
“What separates man from animal is not the things we build or the ideas we stand behind. Its our ability to kill from a distance that makes us different”
“What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.”
“What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.”
Source: Suite Française: Storm in June
“What separates people that create from the people that don't is just one's ability to take action despite the fear, you know? Or to suspend the fear, or more commonly, the voice of judgment within yourself that says, "This isn't good enough. You don't deserve to do this. You're not worthy. Your expression isn't meaningful. You have nothing to contribute, just get back to your 9-to-5 job." It's not so much that I don't have all those same voices, it's more just that for some reason as a kid I was shameless enough that could plow through them for long enough to get something on the table.”
“What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.”
“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”
“What separates self from the flutter
of longing?”
Source: Granted
“What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.”
“What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.”
“What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”
“What separates the winners from the losers is that they can deal with doing their best while still coming up short.”
“What separates the winners from the losers is that winners are able to handle problems and crises that they never imagined would occur. You hit the floor, but what counts is how fast you can get up and regroup. Failure is simply part of the equation.”
Source: Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve
“What separates the wise from the unwise is; how a person reacts and responds to each new twist of fate.”
“What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help.”
“What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”
Source: Love Is the Higher Law
“What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others - status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“What separates us is that we expect to be great.”
“What serialized cable dramas have given us is the opportunity to not simply tell the same story with slightly different words and different costumes, every week. people are really mining the ability of storytellers to tell a long form story that goes from A to Z, and to trust that an audience will follow that. If they miss it, over the course of the week, they can watch it online or buy the DVD. There are so many different ways of interacting with it. Storytelling in television is getting more complex and more nuanced.”