W Quotes
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“When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.”
“When learning and work are dehumanized--when you no longer see us and no longer encourage our daring, or when you only see what we produce or how we perform--we disengage and turn away from the very things that the world needs from us: our talent, our ideas, and our passion.
What we ask is that you engage with us, show up beside us, and learn from us.
Feedback is a function of respect; when you don't have honest conversations with us about our strengths and our opportunities for growth, we question our contributions and your commitment.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“When learning becomes as unthinkable as breathing, the spirit grows.”
“When learning becomes you, then it appears as you need it, when you are being you.”
Source: Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain: The Essence of Tai Ji
“When learning for self-growth, a problem many people have is that they memorize what they learn, but do not always think, apply, adapt and repeat what they learn”
“When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.”
Source: Envisioning an Empowered Nation: Technology for Societal Transformation
“When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more interesting and educational ends, children learn without effort, often without even knowing it, and parents learn along with them.”
Source: Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling
“When learning stops, progress stops.”
Source: See No Gender
“When learning stops, decay sets in.”
“When Learning to "LOVE YOURSELF", you attract two types of energies: Lovers & Haters. Lovers should take you higher, haters should inspire. Both should give you fire to illuminate your environment.”
Source: Lord of the Flies: Fitness for Writers
“When learning to swim, an hour in the pool is more useful than a year poolside.”
“When leaves begin to sprout, we know spring season is here.”
“When leaves fall to the ground trees do not weep for they are returning to their mother: Earth.”
“When leaving becomes an option staying becomes a choice”
“When leaving the ground, our ears were assaulted by language that you wouldn’t normally hear on a building site. In fact, most people in construction wouldn’t normally swear in public or in front of children. It appeared to me that the men in their twenties using these words were doing so on purpose, perhaps to make themselves appear ‘hard’ amongst other Millwall supporters, or to intimidate the opposition. But looking at them, they were pigeon chested and weak armed, and I suspected their use of foul language was intended to boost their stature to compensate for their lack of physical strength”
Source: Calico Jack in your Garden
“When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.”
“When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.”
Source: True Evangelism: Or Winning Souls By Prayer
“When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.”
“When left alone, quantum particles behave as multiple images of themselves (as waves, really), simultaneously moving through all possible paths in space and time. Now, again, why do we not experience this multitude around ourselves? Is it because we are probing things around us all the time? Why do all experiments that involve, say, the position of a particle make the particle suddenly be somewhere rather than everywhere? No one knows. Before you probe it, a particle is a wave of possibilities. After you've probed it, it is somewhere, and subsequently it is somewhere for ever, rather than everywhere again. Strange, that. Nothing, within the laws of quantum physics, allows for such a collapse to happen. It is an experimental mystery and a theoretical one. Quantum physics stipulates that whenever something is there, it can transform into something else, of course, but it cannot disappear. And since quantum physics allows for multiple possibilities simultaneously, these possibilities should then keep existing, even after a measurement is made. But they don't. Every possibility but one vanishes. We do not see any of the others around us. We live in a classical world, where everything is based on quantum laws but nothing resembles the quantum world.”
Source: The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
“When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read.”
Source: The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy
“When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.”
“When left unchecked, the egoistic character of human nature will entail a relentless search for the consolidation of power.”
“When left unsatisfied, lust becomes violence.”
Source: The Accidental Siren
“When left with a history for which there are no words, we read our way toward healing.”
“When legal aid was first introduced in 1949, the late Arthur Skeffington said that the law at that time was like The Ritz, in that those who could afford to pay had access to it, while those who could not did not.”
“When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.”
“When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.”
“When lending money to family members,
Make sure both parties sign a legal contract,
Cause that’s the only way,
You’re guaranteed your money back”
“When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral.”
Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
“When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner”
Source: King Henry V
“When Leopold had an idea in his head, it was impossible to make him quit.”
“When Leopold II began his great work, which today finds its culmination, he presented himself to you not as a conqueror but as a bringer of civilization. The Congo was endowed with railways, roads, shipping and air connections. Our medical facilities have freed you from many devastating diseases. Many well-equipped hospitals have been established. Agriculture has been improved and modernized. Great cities have been built. Living conditions and hygiene have improved. Mission and state schools have brought education on a large scale.”
“When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part. What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?”
“When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.”
“When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.”
“When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.”
Source: Anna Karenina: Easyread Edition
“When levitation fails, a ladder prevails.”
“When Liam stepped forward again, Derek's arm shot around me , a growl vibrating up from his stomach. Liam put his hand out toward me. When Derek tensed he pilled back, then did it again, testing his reaction, laughing when he got one, untill even Ramone started to laugh. "Check this out," Liam said. "I think the pup's got himself a mate. Isn't that the cutest thing?”
“When liberal celebs stammer out a litany of shopworn bleats about the administration's attempt to turn America into a theocratic prison state, people can't help but notice that these buskers and mummers seem unmoved by the horrors of actual prison states. (Saddam commissioned a copy of the Quran written in his own blood - but John Ashcroft is the real religious nut, don't you know.)”
“When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.”
Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
“When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.”
“When liberals are behind something, I'm automatically suspicious.”
“When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.”
“When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.”
“When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“When liberals start acting like they're opposed to pre-marital sex and mothers having careers, you know McCain's vice presidential choice has knocked them back on their heels.”
“When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Notice a pattern here?”
“When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.”
“When libertarian sentiments take a populist form, it looks like this: a mix of anger, fear, anti-intellectualism, and fierce government hostility. Welcome to the Tea Party movement.”
Source: Fighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason
“When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.”
Source: The Complete Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance, Age of Reason Begins, Age of Louis XIV, Age of Voltaire, Rousseau and Revolution, Age of Napoleon, Reformation