W Quotes
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“What we think is what we experience, so it is important to become aware of our thoughts.”
Source: From Type A to Type Me: How to Stop "Doing" Life and Start Living It
“What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to feel. Moreover, what we think is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to feel. In short, the condition of our mind is very much a matter of the direction in which our will is set.”
“What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them.”
“What we think of as acts of cruelty are in reality nothing of the kind. Someone from the Middle Ages would still find the whole style of our present-day life abhorrent, but cruel, horrifying and barbaric in a quite different way. Every age, every culture, every ethos and tradition has a style of its own, has the varieties of gentleness and harshness, of beauty and cruelty that are appropriate to it. Each age will take certain kinds of suffering for granted, will patiently accept certain wrongs. Human life becomes a real hell of suffering only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. Required to live in the Middle Ages, someone from the Graeco-Roman period would have died a wretched death by suffocation, just as a savage inevitably would in the midst our civilisation. Now, there are times when a whole generation gets caught to such an extent between two eras, two styles of life, that nothing comes naturally to it since it has lost all sense of morality, security and innocence. A man of Nietzsche's mettle had to endure our present misery more than a generation in advance. Today, thousands are enduring what he had to suffer alone and without being understood.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“What we think of as Halloween is really the product of media barons, city mayors, and candy-makers. You know, before the 1920s, Halloween was really a terrible, terrible night.”
“What we think of as our refuge and sanctuary, could easily become the place of our captivity.”
Source: Svetioničar - Pomračenje
“What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.”
“What we think of as physical reality is an intermingling of appropriate realities, a fluid massive consciousness in which each of us exists independently of each other and yet coexists interdependently with each other.”
“What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.”
“What we think of as the past is, rather, a romantic concept held by those too young to have any grasp on the meaning of age.”
“What we think of Christ influences our thinking and controls our actions.”
“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do”
Source: The Crown of Wild Olive
“What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“What we think repeatedly of ourselves, we become.”
“What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength. And that the most unlikely person can alter the course of history.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“What we think, we act.”
“What we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done.”
Source: Art & ardor: essays
“What we think, we create. What we carry within our vessel/body will eventually show on the exterior. Furthermore, at a cellular level, it can destroy our important disease, virus, and cancer-killing cells. Be cognizant of carrying anger, resentment, jealousy, judgment, hatred, and worry.”~Chris J. Hamilton”
“What we think we want right now can prevent us from achieving what we really want in the future.”
Source: The Invisible Four-letter Word: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want in Life.
“What we tried to do in 13th was get to the bottom of that. What were they motivated by? But certainly the attention that the Attorney General's office paid to it allowed for there to be some dialogue across the aisle that I think were the first steps then in change.”
“What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.”
“What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.”
“What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.”
“What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we know how...We want to include songs that lyrically cover subjects ranging from the heaviest things we've ever done to light-hearted experiences that can best be presented through sentimental bluesy ballads that are usually good for a chuckle or two.”
“What we try to seek and call education is just a drop of water in the ocean.”
Source: Regrets-All you need to know one's true value
“What we understand and love understands and loves us also.”
“What we understand to be profoundness, or importance, it changes. It should change. It should be this moment where you cannot believe that equalled grandness or importance.”
“What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.”
“What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.”
Source: In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks
“What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us.”
“What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.”
“What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.”
“What we usually think of as the self is very temporal and an illusion.”
Source: The Center Within
“What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.”
“What we value and our priorities in life make us who we are. We are unique not only because of our outward differences, but arguably more importantly, our inward differences. Our values steer our personal and professional lives and have a distinct imprint on the decisions we make.”
Source: The Irrational Mind: How To Fight Back Against The Hidden Forces That Affect Our Decision Making
“What we value determines what we do.”
“What we value is important to us. It rises in the finite hierarchy of things we pay attention to. We are willing to put effort and energy in it. What we value however arises from our perspective; the way our brain synthesizes reality filtering facts it sees through its library of memories, its catalogue of knowledge and its store of experience. Our perspective then determines how we see the world and sense our place in it which means it establishes our position in what I will call our known universe. The perspective we have then feeds our sense of identity; what we feel we are and our sense of how others see us modified through our need for others to see us in a specific way. Our sense of identity, in turn, gives rise to our values. Our values determine our energy expenditure and guide our attention. Our attention determines what’s important to us.
You can see here how a misstep anywhere along this chain can derail us.”
“What we’ve got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Source: The Waste Lands
“What we view as God’s absence or lack of quickness to change our circumstances or fix our problems is really God waiting for the proper time to act on our behalf, while simultaneously waiting for us to acknowledge our need for rescue.”
Source: Stressed-Less Living
“What we visualize, will be materialize. The more concentrated the mind is, the earlier our thought comes true. All inventions first started from imagination and eventually it materialized in the world.”
“What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.”
“What we want
is never simple.
We move among the things
we thought we wanted:
a face, a room, an open book
and these things bear our names -
now they want us.
But what we want appears
in dreams, wearing disguises.
We fall past,
holding out our arms
and in the morning
our arms ache.
We don't remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us.
It is there all day
as an animal is there
under the table,
as the stars are there.”
“What we want comes from our participation; life does not happen by itself; we must make it happen.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“What we want comes from participation; life does not happen by itself; we must make it happen.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.”
“What we want for the Iranian people is control over their own government, which they don't have now. So you would do it through supplying resources and support from the outside to the indigenous people who are already quite unhappy. The mullahs have made hash of the economy since 1979, there's a huge amount of economic dissatisfaction. The young people, who are pretty well educated and sophisticated, know they could have a better life than this strict Islamic law.”
“What we want from a career narrative is some moral thrust, some meaningful story we can, as [Richard] Sennett suggests, tell our children. The old narrative was “I worked hard and therefore succeeded” or sometimes “I screwed up and therefore failed.” But a life of only intermittently rewarded effort—working hard only to be laid off, and then repeating the process until aging forecloses decent job offers—requires more strenuous forms of explanation. Either you look for the institutional forces shaping your life, or you attribute the unpredictable ups and downs of your career to an infinitely powerful, endlessly detail-oriented God.”
Source: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
“What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.”
“What we want is a society without exploitation and oppression and I don't see how McDonalds can have any part to play in that- they're based on oppression and exploitation of workers, animals and the environment..”
“What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far on Earth belongs to the same tree. We share genes with mushrooms and oak trees and fish and bacteria that live in volcanic vents and so on that it's all the same life descended from a common origin. What we want is a second tree of life. We want alien life, alien not necessarily in the sense of having come from space, but alien in the sense of belonging to a different tree altogether. That is what we're looking for, "life 2.0."”