W Quotes
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“When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.”
“When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.”
“When people are vulnerable to control, they feel that they are selfish for deciding what to do with their own property. In reality, deciding for ourselves is the only way we can ever have true love, for then we are giving freely.”
Source: Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future
“When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.”
“When people are worried about the future, they don't take trips to Hawaii.”
“When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.”
Source: The Sweet Shop Owner
“When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom.”
“When people around you desire money
When they desire power
When they desire wealth on every level
And that would please them
But for me
I only desire you
If I could have you
Nothing else is needed
I don't care for the wealth of this world
I don't fancy luxury
I just need you
All of you
To spend my life”
“When people around you do not support your personal growth and reinvention, it doesn’t mean you are on the wrong path or that you have to listen to them. Just because someone continues to judge you from where you were doesn’t mean you have to stay there.”
“When people ask a complex/compound question that requires conversation or explanation but they don't wait for you to finish answering OR they interrupt with their assumptive answers. OMG! This sends me!”
“When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.”
“When people ask about the aspect of race in the work, they are looking for very simple or easy answers. Part of it is when you think other people are so different than yourself, you imagine that their thoughts aren't the same. When I think about thought, I think about how much there is that is common.”
“When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“When people ask 'how do I know if I'm being too easy or hard
on myself?' or
'how hard should I be on myself?'
I answer,
'hard enough to motivate you to do something,
and not so hard that it makes you want to
bury your head in your pillow
and give up.'
So now I add, to the question
'how much should the director in the back of my head
be side-coaching what I'm saying and doing?':
enough to make you self-aware (and aware of others,
and receptive and responsive to them)
and not so much as to make you self-conscious.
No judgement.”
“When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.”
“When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?”
“When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.”
“When people ask me about being Swedish, or if there is something I feel connected to, neoclassicism is the thing I bring up.”
“When people ask me about drugs and alcohol, I say "Yeah, I went to rehab, I went to a mental hospital, I've been to jail." The main lesson you can learn is do drugs and alcohol when you are in a good mood, not when you are in a bad mood, and find balance in anything you do.”
“When people ask me about modeling, what it was like, I say, "It was fabulous!" If you can use it in the right way - to travel to meet other people, to learn how to dress, to make some money - I think it's great. But I also think it takes girls. If they don't know how to handle themselves, or if they do it just for a little time and are not successful, then they get terribly depressed about themselves.”
“When people ask me about what made the biggest difference in my healing, I tell them that I was believed and tremendously loved. I never felt blamed or shamed into silence.”
“When people ask me, "Am I normal?" they're asking, "Do I belong?"
The answer is yes. You belong in your body. You belong in the world. You've belonged since the day you were born, this is your home. You don't have to earn it by conforming to some externally imposed sexual standard.”
Source: Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
“When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.”
“When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“When people ask me how I develop recipes, I have to respond: "travelling, eating, watching, experimenting, and constantly asking myself: 'Do I want to eat this dish again?'" Will I yearn for it some evening when I'm hungry? Will I remember it in six months' time? In a year? Five years from now?”
“When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself.” If I wasn’t gonna fight for me, who else was?”
Source: All Boys Aren’t Blue
“When people ask me how I was able to make so much money in the market during a 20-year period, I would always say I did it off the misunderstandings of others.”
“When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.”
“When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don't know because I don't.”
“When people ask me how they can know Gods plan for their lives, I tell them the best first step is to know God.”
Source: Plan B
“When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.”
“When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.”
“When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in. It’s like asking directions to the edge of the earth; The Earth is a sphere; it doesn’t have an edge; so looking for it is a futile exercise. We are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god. No one created our universe,and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization; There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful.”
“When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.”
“When people ask me if I have a boyfriend, I tell them it’s my guitar because, really, it’s what I love and it’s what takes up all my time.”
“When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.”
“When people ask me if I have any siblings I say, 'One, an older brother,' but that’s not the truth. I have a sister, or at least I had a sister one summer years ago.
The one thing I remember most about that summer is my sister’s 'f**k me eyes.' Not that I knew what that meant, or that I would have thought of that as a description of my sister, but her 'f**k me eyes' were the reason that she lived with us, and the reason that she left.” Flirty Eyes”
Source: The Cuckoo's Song
“When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'”
“When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather”
“When people ask me if musical theatre should be taught in music colleges, I reply that there is no need. All anyone needs to study is the second act of La Boheme because it is the most tightly constructed piece of musical theatre that there is. It is practically director-proof: you can't stage it badly because it just works too well. If you can write La Boheme, you can write anything. I would also recommend studying Britten's Peter Grimes.”
“When people ask me my influences and I'm like, "nobody" they're like, "there has to be somebody." People seem to think you have to have an influence.”
“When people ask me now about why I make art, I think that's what I'm seeking - a moment of transcendence with a piece. Because otherwise you're just in the hustle, you're trying to pay your bills, to do this and that, and then there's that unique moment, when you're not thinking about the market, or if it's going to sell, and all of that bullshit.”
“When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.”
“When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.”
“When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.”
“When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.”
“When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.”
“When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.'”
“When people ask me to pray for them or their loved ones, I explain that I’d be happy to hold HeartLight—sacred space—for them. The visualization I use is a sugar snap pea. In my mind’s eye, I unzip the pod, scoop out the peas, and place the person inside. Carefully, I rezip the pod and envision it as a ‘station,’ somewhat like an incubator, of vivid green, pulsing with vital energy that’s working for the person’s highest and best good—body, mind, and spirit.”
“When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.”