W Quotes
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“When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.”
“When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”
Source: Far From the Madding Crowd
“When a student asked Linus Pauling how he got a good idea, the double Nobel Prize winner answered: 'You have a lot of ideas and you throw away the bad ones.' Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the molecular structure of DNA, said that 'theorists in biology should realize that it is ... unlikely that they will produce a good theory at their first attempt. It is amateurs who have one big bright idea beautiful idea that they can never abandon. Professionals know that they have to produce theory after theory before they are likely to hit the jackpot.”
Source: The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think
“When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.”
“When a student stops learning, you don't call them dull—
you change the way you teach.
Growth doesn't vanish; it just waits for the right approach.”
“When a studio puts you under contract, its publicity department starts turning out news copy about you that you read with astonishment. You think, can this be me they’re talking about? They don’t really manufacture untruths, but they play up whatever makes interesting reading, and then a columnist adds his own little embellishments and another adds to that until there’s a whole body of so called ‘facts’ floating around—almost like another you—that simply isn’t real. It isn’t a lie, but it isn’t real, either.”
Source: Judy Garland on Judy Garland: Interviews and Encounters (6)
“When a stupid government is elected in a democratic country, the best thing about this is that you learn the number of stupid people in that country!”
“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”
“When a subject people moves toward freedom, they are not creating a cleavage, but are revealing the cleavage which apologists of the old order have sought to conceal. It is not the movement for integration which is creating a cleavage in the United states today. The depth of the cleavage that existed, the true nature of which the moderates failed to see and make clear, is being revealed by the resistance to integration.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“When a sudden ray of sun or a moonbeam falls on a dreary street, it makes no difference what it illumines-a broken bottle on the ground, a fading flower in a field, or the flaxen blonde hair of a child's head. The object is transformed and the viewer is transfixed. Celebrate that moment of beauty and take it with you in your memory. It is God's gift to you.”
“When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by Him, finally become spiritual themselves, and their grace is sent forth to others. From this comes knowledge of the future, understanding of mysteries, apprehension of hidden things, distribution of wonderful gifts, heavenly citizenship, a place in the choir of angels, endless joy in the presence of God, becoming like God, and, the highest of all desires, becoming God.”
“When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.”
Source: Writings, 1902-1910
“when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.”
Source: Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington
“When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.”
Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
“When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.”
“When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.”
“When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive”
“When a task cannot be partitioned because of sequential constraints, the application of more effort has no effect on the schedule. The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.”
“When a task seems too daunting to even approach, break it up into little bits.”
“When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“When a teacher is a friend/relatable;
it creates an invisible layer of accountability.
Making the student a better student
and in turn the teacher a better teacher.”
“When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be gained, he may say to them, not by subtlety and intrigue; not by wire pulling and demagoguery; not by the arts of popularity; not by skill and shiftiness in following expediency; but by being firm in devotion to the principles of manhood and the application of morals and the courage of righteousness in the public life of our country; by being a man without guile and without fear, without selfishness, and with devotion to duty, devotion to his country.”
“When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, one-third of the kids already know it; one-third will get it; and the remaining third won’t. So two-thirds of the children are wasting their time.”
“When a team is in possession of the ball, but cannot advance its agenda any further, they have to ‘drop back and punt.’ Doing this requires that they step back to regroup, reassess, and reorganize their strategy in pursuit of winning the game. When you are faced with change and apply this regrouping process, you are better equipped to make decisions for your next steps. Rather than settling back into old habits and doing what you’ve always done, create something fresh, new, and awesome.”
“When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.”
“When a team tells you we’re going to let you get your option regardless if you get it or not, that’s a message to you as to what you need to do in order to make this team or to be on this team next year.”
“When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.”
“When a technology, regardless of how different and difficult it is, sustains the trajectory of performance improvement, my research asserts that the leaders in the prior generation of technology are likely to end up on top of their industry at the end of the transition.”
“When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be a cheapening of our lives. And we can set a watch over our affections and our constancy as we can over other treasures.”
Source: Middlemarch
“When a terrorist or a government official demands that you deny Jesus, they're demanding you exchange your belief in him for something else. In America, we don't need a terrorist or autocrat to make any such demands. We do it to ourselves all the time with whatever we value above Jesus; whatever pseudo god we put our faith in.”
“When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself”
“When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted.”
“When a thing bores you, do not do it.”
“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”
“When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.”
Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus
“When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.”
“When a thing has served its purpose, it will go away. Sometimes it will break. At other times, it will simply die off. Then, there are those times when for no reason, it will simply fall apart. If you try to hold on to something that has already fulfilled its purpose in your life, you are going to hurt yourself. If holding on is disturbing your peace of mind, it makes sense to let it go.”
“When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence of cheapening articles of vanity, is not that less is expended on such things, but that the buyers substitute for the cheapened article some other which is more costly, or a more elaborate quality of the same thing; and as the inferior quality answered the purpose of vanity equally well when it was equally expensive, a tax on the article is really paid by nobody: it is a creation of public revenue by which nobody loses.”
Source: Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy
“When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.”
“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
“When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.”
“When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.”
“When a thing you love faces adversity, you start to feel more protective of it. Also, you take an inventory all the time. You ask yourself, "Is this worth all my fighting?"”
“When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.”
Source: Swallowdale
“When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.”
“When a thought comes to mind, note the thought and return to the practice. Notice where your mind goes when it wanders—“Oh, I’m thinking about work”— then bring your focus back to the breath.”
“When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.”
“When a thought is obedient to Christ, it either aligns with Christ or is rejected by Christ and by God's teaching found in Scripture. See, if a thought is not taken captive by you in Jesus' name, that thought will take you captive. You will bind the thought, or the thought will, in time, bind you.”
Source: Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...