W Quotes
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“What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative, even with strangers, people who are not at all related to us.”
“What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.”
“What sets a prolific discoverer apart from the pack are the wide range of discoveries that span many disciplines.”
“What sets apart high-performance teams, however, is the degree of commitment, particularly how deeply committed the members are to one another.”
Source: High-Performance Teams: The Katzenbach-Smith Collection (2 Books)
“What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.”
“What sets bootstrapping apart from other forms of business funding is that it relies heavily on entrepreneurs’ frugal thinking, creativity, thriftiness, planning and cost-cutting efficiency skills.”
Source: Quotable Quotes For Business: Lessons For Success
“What sets Christian spiritual activity apart from all other religions is that they have knowledge of Christ as their goal; not moral perfection (although you will become more moral), not tranquility (although your life will be remarkably more peaceful). And because of the grace you have in Christ, the disciplines will do nothing to make you more accepted by the Father. You cannot be more accepted than you already are in Christ, since He has already done it all for you!”
Source: So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There
“What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.”
“What sets Elon Musk apart from the rest of CEOs is that he cares about what an individual can do, rather than what he learned in school or college.”
“What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.”
“What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.”
“What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically dominates, though ... there are times in which the territorial logic comes to the fore. But this then poses a crucial question: how can the territorial logics of power, which tend to be awkwardly fixed in space, respond to the open spatial dynamics of endless capital accumulation? And what does endless capital accumulation imply for the territorial logics of power?”
Source: The New Imperialism
“What sets Inbound PR apart from traditional PR is the ability to measure results.”
Source: Inbound PR: The PR Agency's Manual to Transforming Your Business With Inbound
“What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.”
Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
“What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.”
“What sets my photos in this book apart from other similar works is that all these images were taken during my daily life. No big glitzy photo shoots. No big camera. No heavy bag with lots of lenses. No tripod...I photographed things I thought were beautiful, funny, ironic, spectacular, sad, interesting...”
Source: Pathways in Time: Photo Journeys
“What sets Salvation apart from everything else in the world is the Biblical truth that Satan cannot touch your soul because he doesn't know your PIN.”
Source: God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
“What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith. We're encouraged to ask whether the evidence actually supports what we're being told - or what we grew up believing - and we're allowed to ask whether we're hearing all the evidence or just some small prejudicial part of it. If our beliefs aren't supported by the evidence, then we're encouraged to alter our beliefs.”
Source: Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
“What sets the new synthetic insecticides is their enormous biological potency.”
Source: Silent Spring
“What sets the The Next Web apart is a focus on the internet as a key driver for a global market. Their international view is unique, making their blogs a must read and their conferences a must attend for professionals like me who do business around the globe”
“What sets these - and all - racers apart from less daredevilish mortals is their complete lack of fear and their joy of doing something on the edge. They love to speed because it is dangerous.”
“What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.”
“What sets us apart from some of the other options available would definitely be our unique combination of skills and craftsmanship with being a well-managed business. We control the number of projects we are involved with so that our clients remain a top priority throughout the duration of their project.”
“what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.”
Source: The Age of Missing Information
“What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life”
“What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.”
“What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it's not.”
“What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.”
“What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power.”
“What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.”
“What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth, of glow. And when this glow becomes a pure shine, then we feel the sense of beauty. We all have the fire of sex slumbering or burning inside us. If we live to be ninety, it is still there. Or, if it dies, we become one of those ghastly living corpses which are unfortunately becoming more numerous in the world.”
“What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?”
“What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.”
“What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!”
Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke
“What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.”
“What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.”
“What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it.”
“What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.”
“What shall he fear that does not fear death.”
“What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.”
Source: An Anthology
“What shall I compare
Your precious letter in early spring to?
All the jewels and gold
Lose their color.
雨が下に
満つる玉より
黄金より
春の初めの
君が音づれ”
Source: Zen Fool Ryokan
“What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition
“What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.”
Source: Devotions
“What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ?”
“What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?”
Source: The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806
“What shall I do to be forever know,
And make the Age to come my own?
I shall like Beasts or Common People dy,
Unless you write my Elegy;
Whilst others great by being born are grown,
Their Mothers Labour, not their own.
In this scale Gold, in th' other Fame does ly,
The weight of that mounts this so high.
These men are Fortunes Jewels, moulded bright; Brought forth with their own fire and light.
If I, her vulgar stone for either look,
Out of my self it must be strook.”
Source: The Poems of Abraham Cowley
“What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the Age to come my own?
I shall like Beasts or Common People dy,
Unless you write my Elegy;
Whilst others great by being born are grown,
Their Mothers Labour, not their own.
In this scale Gold, in th' other Fame does ly,
The weight of that mounts this so high.
These men are Fortunes Jewels, moulded bright;
Brought forth with their own fire and light.
If I, her vulgar stone for either look,
Out of my self it must be strook.”
Source: The Poems of Abraham Cowley
“What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.”
“What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?”
Source: Poems
“What shall I do with all this heartache?”
Source: Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems