W Quotes
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“When seeking guidance, don't ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.”
“When seeking startup funding, having a well thought out investor data room with financial forecasts, cap tables, and legal essentials streamlines due diligence and signals operational maturity.
It's like curating a gallery where each exhibit tells a compelling story, drawing investors in to see your startup masterpiece.”
Source: The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies
“When seen from outer space, our beautiful blue planet has no national boundaries.”
“When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same principles which hold for the clothes of the past must hold for clothes of the present and the future.”
“When seen up close, dangers are controllable: when you begin to climb the mountain of your dreams, pay attention to the surroundings. There are cliffs, of course. There are almost imperceptible cracks in the mountain rock. There are stones so polished by storms that they have become as slippery as ice. But if you know where you are placing each footstep, you will notice the traps and how to get around them.”
“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor.”
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.”
“When self-esteem is fragile,
hurt is frequent.”
“When self-interest supersedes public service, society collapses under the weight of corruption.”
“When Self (Khuda) is realized, egoism (Aap-khudi) goes away.”
“When self-preservation is not applied with discernment, it becomes the Devil’s tool or we can choose to take a chance on people after applying the lessons taught by Adversity’s storms. Let our triggers teach us.”
“When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end.”
“When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.”
“When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.”
Source: How to See Yourself As You Really Are
“When selling, never answer an unasked question.”
“When sending your children to an Ivy League school, you must remember that some schools prevent Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) from visiting their training and research facilities.”
“When sensuality is absent, love and life become a burden.”
“When Serena Williams is number one, its hard to think of being number one, but still I have confidence that I can win more titles and reach a higher ranking.”
“When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of the problems in the church is that people are not willing to do that. People have arrived at a place where they think they have got the answer.”
“When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.”
“When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.”
“When [Servius Galba] was a commoner he seemed too big for his station, and had he never been emperor, no one would have doubted his ability to reign.”
Source: The Histories
“When setting a long-term goal, find the pace necessary to achieve it.”
“When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home”
“When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to leave in the cab coming back.”
“When setting out on an unknown course for your authentic life, expect fog.”
Source: We Need You: A Call to an Imaginal Reality
“When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams of trying to deceive or trick him.”
“When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you.”
“When sex disappears the tremendous energy of love is left behind. Each ugly thing in your mind, disappearing, leaves a great treasure behind.”
“When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.”
“When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.”
“When sex is good theres nothing better, when its bad its not bad.”
“When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?”
“When sex was something godlike, Lust was the profane curiosity that killed many a straying cat. Now, having removed mystery, Lust is less a long-standing, overpowering yearning, more a sudden craving of the appetite. Less quest, more impulse buy.”
“When sexual liberation was the order of the day, the watchword was 'Maximize sexuality, minimize reproduction' . The dream of our present cloneloving society is just the opposite: as much reproduction and as little sex as possible. At one time the body was a metaphor for the soul, then it became a metaphor for sex. Today it is no longer a metaphor for anything at all, merely the locus of metastasis, of the machine-like connections between all its processes, of an endless programming devoid of any symbolic organization or overarching purpose: the body is thus given over to the pure promiscuity of its relationship to itself - the same promiscuity that characterizes networks and integrated circuits.
The possibility of metaphor is disappearing in every sphere. This is an aspect of a general tendency towards transsexuality which extends well beyond sex, affecting all disciplines as they lose their specificity and partake of a process of confusion and contagion - a viral loss of determinacy which is the prime event among all the new events that assail us. Economics becomes transeconomics, aesthetics becomes transaesthetics, sex becomes transsexuality - all converge in a transversal and universal process wherein no discourse may have a metaphorical relationship to another, because for there to be metaphor, differential fields and distinct objects must exist. But they cannot exist where contamination is possible between any discipline and any other.
Total metonymy, then - viral by definition (or lack of definition). The viral analogy is not an importation from biology, for everything is affected simultaneously and under the same terms by the virulence in question, by the chain reaction we have been discussing, by haphazard and senseless proliferation and metastasis. Perhaps our melancholy stems from this, for metaphor still had its beauty; it was aesthetic, playing as it did upon difference, and upon the illusion of difference. Today, metonymy - replacing the whole as well as the components, and occasioning a general commutability of terms - has built its house upon the dis-illusion of metaphor.”
Source: The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
“When sh- got intense, I’d play the sidelines, dodging errant sparks and waiting for the perfect time to head back into the danger. As an adult, not much has changed.”
“when shadows dream of light, it is then that light knows anything is possible”
“When shadows fall and the path you walk grows dark, may the smile of God light your way.”
“When Shah Rukh stated, “Bhootnath... will be among the top three hits of the year!”, I told him, “Aapke moonh mein dudh, ghee, shakkar sab!”
“When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.”
“When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.”
“When Shakespeare doesn't feel like Shakespeare, it's the best.”
“When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.”
“When Shakti
takes over, Shiva steps back”
Source: The Tenth Riddle
“When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?”
Source: Zorba the Greek
“When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“when shall I cease to regret you!—when learn to feel a home elsewhere!—Oh! happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more!—And you, ye well-known trees!—but you will continue the same.—No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer!—No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade!—But who will remain to enjoy you?”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“When shall it be that we shall taste the sweetness of the Divine Will in all that happens to us, considering in everything only His good pleasure, by whom it is certain that adversity is sent with as much love as prosperity, and as much for our good? When shall we cast ourselves undeservedly into the arms of our most loving Father in Heaven, leaving to Him the care of ourselves and of our affairs, and reserving only the desire of pleasing Him, and of serving Him well in all that we can?”