W Quotes
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“When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, "I get rejected for a living." And that's true.”
“When people ask me what I do for a living, I generally tell them 'I run a hedge fund.' The majority give me a strange look, so I quickly add, 'I am a money manager.' When the strange look persists, as it often does, I correct it to simply, 'I'm an investor.' Everyone knows what that is.”
“When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.”
“When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.”
“When people ask me what keeps me looking young and happy daily, in the midst of all the gloomy and doom.
I respond by saying. My life is like banana leaves, when rain drops on them, they roll off and they don’t stay and soak me while I keep dry the ones seeking shelter under me.
A daily lifestyle to my thought process and applications”
“When people ask me what L.A. was like in the sixties, I tell them there wasn't as much terrible stucco as there is today: no mini malls with their approximation of Spanish two-story buildings, no oversized SUVs bulging out of parking-space lines. What used to say "Spanish-style" is now something diseased looking. Nobody seems to know how to stucco anymore.”
Source: Girl in a Band
“When people ask me what my dream role would be, I tell them that it's to play someone very dark. Very dark - like someone involved in the drug world or some other criminal venture. Maybe someone who's delusional or not all there or just not well. I really hope I can do that one day.”
“When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.”
“When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.”
“When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.”
Source: The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1921-1929
“When people ask me what philosophy is, I say philosophy is what you do when
you don't know what the right questions are yet. Once you get the questions
right, then you go answer them, and that's typically not philosophy, that's
one science or another. Anywhere in life where you find that people aren't
quite sure what the right questions to ask are, what they're doing, then,
is philosophy.”
“When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird little kid, and though I would never choose to give my own children this particular preparation for life, there are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.”
Source: Read for Your Life #18
“When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded on myself.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'”
“When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political."”
“When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.”
“When people ask me what's the best thing I like, my head starts scrambling and I just can't think of anything. Depending on the day, I might say this or that. I really don't have any specific thing that I like better than others.”
“When people ask me where I am from, I say "Barbados" and sometimes I mention "broken trident”
“When people ask me where I’m from,
Bursting with pride,
I always reply,
"BARBADOS 246”
“When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.”
“When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy. They think I mean Puff Daddy. No, it is the dog.”
“When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!”
“When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'”
“When people ask me why I do not work, my response is always ‘I have extensive high altitude biological damage from working in professional astronomy.”
“When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'”
“When people ask me why I wear a hazmat suit to the store, my response is always ‘COVID-19 is a killer virus and I do not want to die’.”
“When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.”
Source: Pete Rose: my life in baseball
“When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody ever takes note of it ‘cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear…but I always say, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’”
“When people ask that question, it's very hard to nail down a formula or a circumstance that I always write in, but I definitely do believe that there have been moments, musically, when I have channeled something, you know?”
“When people ask the Dalai Lama, "Is Buddhism a religion?" he answers, "Yes, it is." Then they ask, "What kind of religion is it?" He responds, "My religion is kindness." You might think, "Everyone's is." Everyone's is. That's true. It's not complicated to describe the goal of a spiritual life. It's easier than you think to explain it. It's more difficult than you can imagine to do it.”
“When people ask us how long does it take for something to manifest, we say, It takes as long as it takes you to release the RESISTANCE. Could be 30 years, could be 40 years, could be 50 years, could be a week. Could be tomorrow afternoon.”
“When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.”
“When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind at all: I’m trying to dissolve the borders between memoir and journalism and criticism by weaving them together.”
“When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.”
“When people ask what you do, tell them you're a writer. Put yourself on the line. Make a commitment.”
Source: How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author
“When people ask what's on my iPod, it's the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.”
“When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.”
“When people ask, who am I? my answer is that I am a real estate developer. Real estate is the Witherman way. Dirt courses through our veins. We have bones made of steel and glass, marble and granite, bricks and mortar, and concrete and wood. Some also say we have balls of steel. All good developers do.”
Source: Fresh Start
“When people ask you to do stuff, it's not your idea anymore, so it's tough to get behind it.”
“When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.”
Source: Conversations with Ian McEwan
“When people ask, "Why should the rich pay a larger percent of their income than middle-income people?" - my answer is not an answer most people get: It's because their power developed from laws that enriched them.”
“When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.”
“When people asked hilbert why he didn't prove Fermat's Last Theorem and win the Wolfskehl Prize, he said, "Why should I kill the goose that lays the golden egg?”
Source: Hilbert
“When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.”
“When people asked me what I did for a living, I told them I make pilots. They thought I was a stewardess.”
“When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning.”
“When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning. Going onstage had nothing to do with it.”
“When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of anything except how to ask questions. And by asking questions, he would prove to other people that they didn’t know what they thought they knew.”
“When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money going through my head while I was making work. But after the car crash I realized that none of my work was owned by anyone. After that, I grew up a bit.”
“When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard.”