W Quotes
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“What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.”
“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.”
Source: Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews
“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.”
Source: Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews
“What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!”
Source: The Crucible
“What worked in war would likewise work in the place of peace. God's principle of power never altered because of circumstances. It takes as much faith to produce a crop of corn as it does to storm and seize an enemy stronghold. One must act in confidence, sure that
God will play His part, whether in a cornfield or on a battlefield.”
Source: Joshua: Man of Fearless Faith
“What worked well in the past may not be relevant or appropriate in the presence.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.”
“What worker or peasant can pay 80 - 90 million dollars to elect a senator or 4 billion to elect a president? Only great capital can do that. That is why we say that bourgeois democracy has been evolving in the last years into dollar democracy, this is not the democracy of sovereignty, and only the people can determine that.”
“What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher.”
Source: Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses
“What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.”
“What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.”
“What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens in the literary marketplace. It is distracting and can lead to discontent.”
“What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.”
“What works for one persons needs is almost always very different from the next.”
“What works for Sweden wouldn't work for France or Germany or Italy. In a small state, you can reach outside for many of your activities. In a homogeneous culture, they are willing to pay higher taxes in order to achieve commonly held goals. But "common goals" are much harder to come by in larger, more heterogeneous populations.”
“What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.”
“What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.”
“What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.”
“What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.”
“What works in the real world is cooperation.”
“What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.”
“What works with your skin and eyes? Use that to zero in on your wardrobe.”
“What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you doing it because you want to make a lot of money?”
“What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?”
Source: The Seeker, the Search, the Sacred: Journey to the Greatness Within
“What world leader is considered the most controversial and everyone has a view of him? That's Putin.”
“What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.”
Source: This Business of Living
“What worlds are there herein? I’ll tell you. In these seas of fragrant waters, numerous as atoms in unspeakably many buddha-fields, rest an equal number of world systems. Each world system also contains an equal number of worlds. Those world systems in the ocean of worlds have various resting places, various shapes and forms, various substances and essences, various locations, various entryways, various adornments, various boundaries, various alignments, various similarities, and various powers of maintenance.”
Source: The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra
“What worlds he might be inspired to give up, he wondered, in the pursuit of knowing more of her mind.”
Source: This Woven Kingdom
“What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you?”
Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
“What worried him worst at the moment - for it is often little things that are hardest to stand - was that his lip was bleeding where they had hit him and he couldn't wipe the little trickle of blood away although it tickled him.”
Source: The last battle
“What worries me is that a load of shite has been talked about digitisation as being the new Gutenberg, but the fact is that Gutenberg led to books being put in shelves, and digitisation is taking books off shelves.
If you start taking books off shelves then you are only going to find what you are looking for, which does not help those who do not know what they are looking for.”
“What worries me is that I am not sure any of the Republicans, or any Democrat, is ready to 'go to the mats.' And, ergo, I am concerned that our current leaders are simply incapable of creating a winning war strategy.”
Source: Turn Right at Lost: Recalculating America
“What worries me is that now, communication is virtual.”
“What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary”
“What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves.”
“What worries me is that we want to close down our relationship to the world at large. In other words, people's instincts are overwhelmed by the amount of images, or they can't distinguish anymore between Rwanda or Bosnia or Somalia.”
“What worries me is the acceptance of the importance of feelings without any effort to understand their complex biological and sociocultural machinery. The best example of this attitude can be found in the attempt to explain bruised feelings or irrational behavior by appealing to surface social causes or the action of neurotransmitters, two explanations that pervade the social discourse as presented in the visual and printed media; and in the attempt to correct personal and social problems with medical and nonmedical drugs. It is precisely this lack of understanding of the nature of feelings and reason (one of the hallmarks of the "culture of complaint") that is cause for alarm.”
Source: Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
“What worries me is the professionalism of everything.”
“What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.”
Source: Postcards From the Edge
“What worries me most about Trump, other than all of the other crazy things, is that I believe that he wants power and I believe from my point of view that power corrupts, and that the whole purpose of our founding fathers and America was to contain power.”
“What worries me sometimes in the culture is that the role for music that actually challenges and enlightens the audience is being pushed to the sidelines.”
“What worries me the most is that I don't know when my patience will run out, when I'll finally do something really stupid. Wait and see.”
“What worries me the most is that most men are so weak. Because of that they act like they don't care and like machos - because they are too fragile inside. They're scared of confrontation and afraid of so many things.”
“What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything.”
“What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for theAtlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.”
“What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.”
“What worries you, masters you.”
“What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.”
Source: Savva [and]: The life of man; two plays
“What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.”