W Quotes
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“What we perceive as disorder is often the universe optimizing itself through feedback and adaptation - Tom Golway”
Source: Rethinking Entropy: Decaying or Optimizing
“What we perceive as misfortune often becomes the compass that leads us into the most luminous chapters of our lives.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.”
“What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.”
“What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.”
Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart
“What we play is life.”
“What we pluralists have to do is to say to the people standing on the faith line, particularly the young ones, no, pluralism is the wish of the creator. It is the greatest opportunity for humanity.”
“What we possess owns us, and we absolutely own nothing.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“What we preach is what we get. We are farmers sowing seed. If we are unhappy with the harvest we’re reaping, we should sow different seed. If we want different results, we preach different messages.”
Source: You The Leader
“What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.”
“What we prepare for is what we shall get”
Source: War and Other Essays
“What we project, we get back.”
“What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.”
“What we put into every moment is all we have. You can drug yourself to death or you can smoke yourself to death or eat yourself to death, or you can do everything right and be healthy and then get hit by a car. Life is so great, such a neat thing, and yet all during it we have to face death, which can make you nuts and depressed.”
Source: It's Always Something
“What we put into the atmosphere in terms of burning fuel is unprecedented.”
“What we're going to do is keep the peace. That's our job. We're not going to be heroes, we're just going to be ... normal.”
“What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.”
“What we're left with ... is the distinctly uncomfortable sense that much of what we call culture jamming achieves the same effect as traditional marketing. Both rely on the bedrock principle that branding works. Yet marketing has moved on from branding toward a more direct emotional connection to our reptilian brains, which makes it immune to the cognitive dissonance culture jamming creates. In the meantime, the brans being promoted by some activists retain the full integrity of their original message,”
Source: Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity
“What we're saying — what I'm saying, anyway — is that it's OK to be weird, and maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?”
“What we’re seeing today is an emergency born less of poverty than prosperity. Families are not ‘falling’ into homelessness. They’re being pushed.”
Source: There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
“What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)
“What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.”
“What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in.”
“What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move.”
“What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.”
Source: Speeches
“What we really are trying to do day to day now is to wake up every day and think about more activist behavior - what we can do to move the needle on the climate crisis, whether it is calling legislators or trying to win the conversation with someone who might not see the issues the way do.”
“What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.”
“What we really cannot forgive others it is not that they don't do what we want them to do but that they don't do it willingly.”
“What we really do not forgive those we love is not that they do not do what we want but that they do not want what we want.”
“What we really do not forgive those we love is not to not do what we want but to not want what we want.”
“What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title — whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it's time to move out of 1992.”
“What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.”
“What we really need in this world - and all, in the end, we can really give each other - is accompaniment and attention. To walk with each other, and to listen to each other, so that none of us has to go through everything that we will have to go through, alone.”
“What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.”
“What we really need is a mindset shift that will make us relevant to todays consumers, a mindset shift from telling to selling to building relationships.”
“What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.”
“What we really need is only a heart of surrender & always trust what God has plan for our life. So we do our best, God shall take the rest. That's what I called FAITH.”
“What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.”
“What we really need is to realize how little we really need.”
“What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.”
Source: Essays in Religion and Morality
“What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.”
“What we really need to be open to is diversity itself, especially in a business environment. What you want is a plethora of ideas; you want people with different life experience, people with different work experience, people from different cultures to bring something to the table that you otherwise based on your own coming up, you yourself wouldn't have thought of.”
“What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it”
“What we really need to understand here is that it`s all about power. This is where the surge is coming from for Bernie Sanders. In some ways, it`s a very different - it`s a different surge, but it`s coming out of the same sort of sense of fundamental powerlessness and anger and frustration for Donald Trump.”
“What we really need, after all, is not to defend the Bible but to understand it.”
“What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever.”
“What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The happiness of every living thing is what we want.”
Source: Schriften
“What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking - you know, we don't want to have them, you know, for our culture. We simply want our own country and our own society. That's in no way exploitive at all. We want our own society, our own nation....”
“What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.”