W Quotes
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“When people are not given an option by some secret scoring system, it's very hard to complain, so they often don't even know that they've been victimized.”
“When people are not in a prison cell they believe they are free and happy. That's not true. Because in Istanbul, the modern person wakes up at 5 o'clock or 6 o'clock in the morning, gets on the bus for two hours to get to work, works at least ten hours, sometimes twelve or fourteen, then comes back home, just to make some money to pay for rent and food. That's not a human being's life. That's the life of a worm in the earth. That's the life of an insect.”
“When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.”
“When people are not passionate about their goals, everything is more of a struggle.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can't control - and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular - we look inward and not outward.”
“When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.”
Source: Hesketh Pearson by Himself. (1. Ed.)
“When people are on 'The Bachelor' it gives them the opportunity to put their best foot forward, especially when you're around the 'Bachelor' or the 'Bachelorette;' that one person who you're vying for attention with.”
“When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.”
“When people are out of their comfort zone, it’s more dramatic, more prone to have more entertaining experiences, get into fights. That’s the dramatic instinct, to move people out of what they know and make them deal with it.”
“When people are overwhelmed with physical or emotional pain, it’s hard to get through to them, let alone when talking to someone who’s crossed over,” Shane said. “People put up defensive walls to protect themselves, but this makes it very difficult to reach them in their time of need. Very few people can hear us when we talk to them.”
Source: Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.”
“When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.”
“When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence.”
“When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.”
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”
Source: POPism: The Warhol Sixties
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them. “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Aldous Huxley”
“When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.”
“When people are really great at what they do there is no aggression because they are comfortable in their own skin. They know themselves well enough that you don't have anything to prove.”
“When people are really suffering, and we know they're suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.”
“When people are resistant to change, it helps to reinforce what will stay the same”
Source: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
“When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.”
“When people are rude to other people. When people belittle other people. Bullies really bother me a lot. A lot, a lot.”
“When people are rude to us, even if we didn't do them any harm, we may feel awful, but we must try to not let our awfulness create hatred in us towards them, because once we give in to hate, it won't stop there.”
“When people are rude to you, smile and choose not to react. Stay on the high road. Keep your peace. As you do that, you take their power away.”
“When people are running up more and more debt for housing, they call that "real wealth." It exposes what's wrong in the mainstream economics and why most of the economics that justifies austerity programs and economic shrinkage is in the textbooks is not scientific. Junk economics denies the role of debt and denies the fact that the economic system we have now is dysfunctional.”
“When people are rushed, they're stressed and you greatly increase the likelihood of being punitive and unilateral just because you're trying to grasp control.”
“When people are sad they usually make such unreasonable requests that, deity though I am, I am unable to fulfill them. Some pray to be made rich overnight. Some covet other people's wives. Some want to kill the people they hate. Some want the rain changed to sunny weather. Some even want the nose they were born with to be a little bigger. Everyone wants something else. They all pray in vain to Buddha and to the gods, even though their requests cannot possibly be granted, thus making nuisances of themselves.”
Source: Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-century Japan
“When people are saying "rock is dead," it's making everything worse. I would like reword and say "rock is underground." We're really being alienated from every possible facet. Rock radio doesn't even play rock bands anymore. So, they've pretty much stripped away every outlet for us to reach the fans.”
“When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.”
“When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.”
“When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.”
Source: All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day
“When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.”
“When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.”
“When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. ‘This is my last experiment,’ wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. ‘If there is any eternal torment worse than mine I’ll have to be shown.”
Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
“When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“When people are talking about cyber weapons, digital weapons, what they really mean is a malicious program that's used for a military purpose. A cyber weapon could be something as simple as an old virus from 1995 that just happens to still be effective if you use it for that purpose.”
“When people are talking about manifesting, we can say, "I want a car, I want a car, I want a car," but if the mind is running, "I don't deserve it, I'll never be able to afford it, I'll never be a success" - if all those things are running - then those things are what we're really manifesting. They are exactly what's running our life. And as long as we believe those thoughts, thinking positively is not strong enough to override our negative beliefs.”
“When people are talking about you, it means that you exist.”
“When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.”
“When people are tipsy, they're really encouraged and they wanna prove they can do something to the Heavyweight champion.”
“When people are told to "eat many small meals," what they may actually hear is "eat all the time," making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It's no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals.”
“When people are too comfortable, it is not possible to restrain them within the bounds of their duty? They may be compared to mules who, being accustomed to burdens, are spoilt by rest rather than labour.”
“When people are too present, too familiar or too in our face, something happens to us psychologically. We begin to tune them out, we begin to get sick of them, we begin to know them so well and become so familiar with who they are that we loose a bit of respect for them. You pass a certain threshold with the fact that you're too present in their lives, too much in their face and once that threshold is passed you're never going to repair it they have lost a certain respect for you.”
“When people are truly dedicated to the Divine, there is no difference between action and prayer.”
“When people are unable to integrate their traumatic memories, they seem to lose their capacity to assimilate new experiences as well. It is as if their personality stops at a certain points and cannot enlarge any more by the addition or assimilation of new elements. Unless they become aware of the split off elements and integrate them into a story that had happened in the past but was now over, they would experience a slow decline in their personal and professional functioning.”
Source: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal matters which can only bring needless distress to a number of people.”
“When people are unsettled, loyal ministers arise.”
“When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.”
“When people are using their devices, it's probable that almost half are networking on social media.”
Source: Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World