W Quotes
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“When emotions are expressed...all systems are united and made whole. When emotions are repressed, denied, not allowed to be whatever they may be, our network pathways get blocked, stopping the flow of the vital feel-good, unifying chemicals that run both our biology and our behavior.”
Source: Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine
“When emotions are high, things are said, things are done. Ultimately, these players want to play. I know too many of them love the game too much.”
“When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“When emotions arise, I don't attempt to suppress or repress them, so that I can discern their basis or cause.”
“When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate”
“When emotions run out of your veins, the sun doesn't rises in your chest and neither do the clouds form in your hands.”
“When emotions turn and stay sour, when thoughts become cynical and judgmental, good and compassionate treatment is on the line. Helpers who become sour and cynical tend to begrudge their high need clients for their neediness. There is a risk that helpers become too well-practiced at taking a bleak view of those they have avowed to assist. There is a temptation to begin to blame clients for their failure to improve. If treatment ends pre-maturely, with either a client never returning to treatment or a helper 'firing' them out of frustration, there is a tendency for the client to take the fall. Of course what we are talking about here are signs of burnout.”
“When empathy is present in a companies culture, employees feel safe and they bring the fullness of who they are into the company instead of just a piece of themself. And that cultivates trust. And that's good for everyone.”
“When employees are at odds over commission allocation, as a leader, an optimal /highly effective strategy entails meticulously assessing the quandary, proposing a transparent and collaborative resolution, securing consensus, meticulously documenting both the agreement and its implementation, and then enacting the solution with precision. Conflict resolution transcends being merely an art; it is equally a science. It aims at circling things out and putting the matters into perspective for the next move and it's purpose is to bring clarity to the situation and lay the groundwork for the next stage of the task or a new assignment.”
“When employees are fully engaged, they produce, contribute, and perform at higher levels. As a result, re-engaged team players bring more value to their companies and empower a positive culture.”
“When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.”
“When employees are motivated and love what they do you will see higher productivity, less turnover, healthier communication, increased loyalty, and a happier environment.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“When employees are unhappy with their job, they underperform and they're less productive. Smart employers invest in employee happiness.”
“When employees don't really care about the work they do and they take no pride in being in the specific organization where they work, they bring no enthusiasm, energy or passion to what they're doing. If, in addition, they feel abused, resentful, insignificant, betrayed, or taken advantage of...they want out. Naturally.”
“When employees have the freedom to be creative and explore new ideas, magical things happen and the company benefits from that too.”
“When employees lack passion, it is nearly impossible to deliver excellent customer service. Doesn’t it make you less inclined to want to do business with them as well?”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“When employees tell you about their good ideas for the business, don't limit your response to asking questions, taking notes and following up. If you can, ask those people to lead their projects and take responsibility for them. From those experiences, they will then have built the confidence to take on more and you can take a further step back.”
“When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.”
“When employees unite, they form a union but when business owners unite, they form a team.”
“When employers no longer offer secure full-time employment with benefits, then it's hard to expect employees to be loyal, engaged, and maximally productive.”
“When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.”
“When empowered with the right information, an adult of sound mind has the freedom and the autonomy to make informed decision(s). Their interest is not on who wins but who best represent their values. They should therefore not be forced through coercion and threats to surrender their universal suffrage to any puppets they aren't willing to bank their future on. Their choice should respected.”
“When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.”
“When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.”
“When encountering emotional vampires, see what you can learn. It's your choice. You can simply feel tortured, resentful, impotent. Or, as I try to do, ask yourself, “How can this interaction help me grow?”
Source: Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life
“When enemies surround, God's table is set with protection and abundance.”
“When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.”
Source: Killosophy
“When enemy is thought of as filth, war is conceived as a grand hygiene operation.”
Source: The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
“When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.”
“When energy speeds up there is no space for playing small, and nothing can remain hidden.”
“When enforcing our boundaries, first and foremost, we are caring for ourselves, but we are also helping others to have a clear understanding of what we consider acceptable behavior. We are reflecting back to them what is not acceptable and, therefore, providing them an opportunity to consider that information and make necessary changes.”
“When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.”
Source: Five complete Hercule Poirot novels
“When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or hazardous occupations, and in climates pernicious to human life. Sailors and soldiers are prodigals. . . . War and pestilence have always waste and luxury, among the other evils that follow in their train.”
Source: Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy: Exposing the Fallacies of the System of Free Trade, and of Some Other Doctrines Maintained in the
“When engaging in simple everyday banter and communications, this rule of thumb can really help suppress a lot of our negative word ‘vomit’ since we often mindlessly chat about the things we don’t like. If we refrain from expressing our negative opinions about things unless they’re directly asked for, we can train ourselves to respond rather than react the second we see or hear something and then feel we must verbalize our views about it.
Remember, even if we don’t agree with someone or something, we can still speak about the subject at hand in a positive light to encourage growth rather than guilty motivation. I like to say I express more “inspirations” than “opinions” with each passing day.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“When engineering takes its next step out of structural stagnation, we will live in another world.”
“When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.”
“When England go to Turkey there could be fatalities - or even worse, injuries.”
“When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have Margaret Thatcher.”
“When enlightened people are so poor that they cannot help others, if they speak a word to awaken the confused or to resolve a problem, there is also boundless merit in that.”
“When Enlightenment thinkers naturalized Muhammad as a mere man rather than a demonic false prophet, they forged a humanistic intellectual environment that inexorably led to the naturalization of Moses and Jesus as men of history and of their times as well. Hence, the three founders of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam suddenly came to stand on par with one another in the humanists' imaginary, a parity and equilibrium that established the foundations of the very enterprise of the comparative study of religions.”
Source: Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
“When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in human misery, the demand for change will be made-not for the sake of minority people, but for the sake of all of us.”
“When enough electrons within an atom get aligned and a critical mass is reached - as soon as you hit that hundredth monkey, as soon as you hit the one - you have phase transition, and all the rest of the electrons automatically make the change. My mission - what I teach and what I believe in - is that you just get yourself aligned with God-consciousness. If we teach enough people to do it - if enough of us ultimately get there - then we'll start electing leaders with this kind of consciousness. We'll start seeing kinds of shifts taking their place.”
“When enough individuals arrive at the same gut feeling, a company can be said to have a brand.”
Source: The Brand Gap, Revised Edition
“When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully.”
Source: Toward truth: A psychological guide to enlightenment
“When enough is not enough, a Hedonist is born.”
Source: Open the Windows: To the World Around You
“When enough people believe that prices will keep rising forever, a bubble starts.”
“When enough people decide to do the work, it keeps enough energy of love and grace here to supply other people with it when they need it. And when they take it, they begin to flower and change the world, too. This is grace in action: by healing yourself, you heal your fellow humans.”
Source: Unmedicated: The Four Pillars of Natural Wellness
“When enough people picture the same future and really believe it's possible, something shifts in the collective consciousness.”
Source: We Are Gods: Awakening the Creator Within
“When enough people possess the same belief, that belief automatically turns into an irrefutable truth in the eyes of the people, even if that belief happens to be the most atrocious lie of all times.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.”