W Quotes
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“When anyone is creating anything, it has no choice but to be in that stream. The art I create and the art my colleagues create is part of it. But the question is: how long will it last in the stream? I think of it really as an enormous river, with its shores very distant from each other, and only time will tell what's going to last in the end. It seems to me that all music of our time is connected, but I never think about where I am in the river or how I would be placed by others inside of it.”
“When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.”
Source: The Optimist Creed
“When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.”
“When anyone makes comments that are offensive to you, would you be willing to do the teaching?”
“When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.”
“When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.”
Source: Alphabetical Order
“When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'”
“When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating. . . . As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.”
“When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.”
“When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic government, Islamic politics, Islamic society and Islamic economy he will realize that Islam is a very political religion. Anyone who will say that religion is separate from politics is a fool; he does not know Islam or politics.”
“When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.”
“When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision. Always I reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book
“When anyone tells you they have all the answers it is time to race for the exits.”
Source: The Robots' Rebellion: The Story of the Spiritual Renaissance
“When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do," they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the generosity inherent in her acts.”
“When anything and everything you ask for is handed to you, those hands seem to blur into nothingness and you forget they're alive just like you are.”
“When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.”
“When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.”
“When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.”
“When anything can happen, everything matters.”
“When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.”
“When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.”
Source: Herself: An Autobiographical Work
“When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.”
“When anything goes, everything goes.”
“When anything goes, it's women who lose.”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“When anything good happens to you in your day, give thanks. It doesn't matter how small it is, say thank you. When you get the perfect parking space, hear your favorite song on the radio, approach a light that turns green, or find an empty seat on the bus or train, say thank you. These are all good things that you are receiving from life.”
Source: The Power
“When anything happens to you that seems unfortunate, even if it is hurtful or takes something precious from you, see it as a beneficial occurrence.”
Source: I Ching Life: Becoming Your Authentic Self
“When anything has to be borne there is at once added the power to bear it steadfastly if we will only reflect calmly on this power and also take time to notice that which wants to manifest itself in the soul. When something painful appears, and when at the same time there is a sure feeling in the soul that forces are to be found which will make the pain bearable and with which we are able to connect ourselves, we are then able to take up such a position towards experiences, which would be unbearable in the course of our ordinary life, so that we seem to be the spectator of ourselves in all such experiences.”
“When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.”
“When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.”
“When anything is easy, it becomes very monotonous for me. But, if I can find something that is really going to take all of my body and all of my mind to really even come close to pulling off, that sounds like fun.”
“When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.”
Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias
“When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.”
“When anything is possible, how do you choose?”
Source: Shadowfever
“When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness .”
Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
“When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.”
“When apart, enjoy their company.
Mindgames.”
“When Apollo 13 appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel, and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.”
“When apparent stability disintegrates,
As it must--
God is Change--
People tend to give in
To fear and depression,
To need and greed.
When no influence is strong enough
To unify people
They divide.
They struggle,
One against one,
Group against group,
For survival, position, power.
They remember old hates and generate new ones,
The create chaos and nurture it.
They kill and kill and kill,
Until they are exhausted and destroyed,
Until they are conquered by outside forces,
Or until one of them becomes
A leader
Most will follow,
Or a tyrant
Most fear.”
Source: Parable of the Sower
“When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.”
“When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.”
“When approached right, citizens never fail to shoulder their responsibilities.”
“When approached soulfully, encompassing compassion and love, a Soulution betters the world with long-term and positive outcomes.”
Source: Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
“When approaching a strange police officer, be aware that they may be taking a potent combination of prescription drugs for their physical and mental health conditions.”
“When approaching your goals and aspirations, do you consider the underlying motivations that propel you in a given direction?”
“When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.”
“When April steps aside for May,
Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten;
Fresh violets open every day:
To some new bird each hour we listen.”
“When April winds
Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush
Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up,
Opened in airs of June her multitude
Of golden chalices to humming-birds
And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.”
“When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.”
“When archeologists find our
Skeletons. They won’t
have to question if it was love
or not,
My bones entwined with yours.
Of all the beliefs in the world
They’ll find at least two
That coincided enough to be found
Miles & miles in the dirt.
Bonded to each other
Branched & twisted with joy
Not knowing that moment
would be the last.
Aware that nothing lasts
Forever”