W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When people don't gossip or talk about you, you are not making waves.”
“When people don't know what’s going on, it’s human nature for them to imagine a version that’s ten times worse than the truth!”
Source: Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
“When people don't know what to expect from you, they stop expecting anything.”
“When people don’t learn from mistakes, their mistakes often turn into bad habits.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“When people don’t respect one another seldom is there honesty.”
“When people don't tell you the truth what they really are saying is they don't value you or their relationship with you enough to be honest.”
“When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.”
“When people don't comply, things - bad things will happen afterwards.”
“When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.”
“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
Source: Speak
“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside—walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It's the saddest thing I know.”
Source: Speak
“When people don't get enough information, they make it up.”
“When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.”
“When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.”
“When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.”
“When people don't know what you are, you get your heart broken daily.”
“When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.”
“When people don't take time out, they stop being productive.”
“When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.”
“When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.”
Source: Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts
“When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.”
“When people don't want 'em, when they profit from the division, however, be it politically or financially, that's when I abhor it.”
“When people don't want the best for you, they are not the best for you.”
“When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.”
“When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.”
Source: Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
“When people doubt you, don’t argue. Outwork them.”
Source: Don't Quit: Stories of Persistence, Courage and Faith
“When people doubt your abilities, the greatest joy on earth is making them eat their words.”
“When people downloading records for free you start to think, "Is it worth spending all this money to make a record sound good, especially if it's going to end up as an mp3?" But I can't drive myself too crazy thinking about that. On one level, being involved in art is all a quixotic thing to begin with.”
“When people drink, they talk, and talk is dangerous!”
Source: Strindberg, Five Plays
“When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.”
“When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.”
“When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, "I want you to emerge stronger from this." My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded.”
“When people enjoy problem-solving as a means of self-validation and accomplishment, we must be watchful. What if they frantically construct situations to concoct solutions for problems they like to create? What if their solutions appear to make conditions worse than before? The white knights of the world improvers, who don’t hesitate to destroy nature and cultural heritages, can be a threatening problem on their own when they deteriorate the quality of our lifestyle and environment. ("Why step out of nature" ?)”
“When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable.”
“When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.”
“When people fail to recognize your work just don't give up yet. Because it's not always about the recognition, sometimes it's about the "passion" that we hold onto..!!!”
“When people failed to be something good in life or to achieve something good. They become savages. Since they cant rise, they decide to bring everyone whose rising down.”
“When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.”
Source: Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
“When people fall in love, they are apt to go a little mad.”
Source: Mary Bennet
“When people fall in love, there´s period of up to three years during which the zeal and infatuation ride at a peak. The internal signals in the body and breain are literally a love drug. And then it beginds to decline. From this perspective, we are preprogramed to lose interest in a sexual partner after the time required to raise a child has passed - which is, on average, about 4 years.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“When people fall in love, they burst into flames.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“When people falls out of love with you, there's nothing you can do to make them change their minds. They just don't love you anymore.”
“When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.”
“When people feel good, they look good.”
“When people feel like they are a part of a team, they are more likely to act in ways that benefit everyone, and less likely to engage in destructive behavior.”
Source: Business Leadership: The Key Elements
“When people feel ownership, they move faster. They stop waiting for instructions and start making decisions.”
Source: Paralyzed by Planning: How Businesses Waste Millions Before They Even Begin
“When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.”
“When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.”
“When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.”