W Quotes
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“When we play on big stages, we tend to beef off the dance side of things and keep up the tempo.”
“When we play, our brains light up.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!”
Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].
“When we play the game like we're supposed to play it, it is pretty easy. Making the extra pass, making the simple play, it's not about between your legs, behind your back, and all of that, it's just about scoring the bucket.”
“When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.”
“When we play video games, through experience, we learn the rules of the game and make progress to the advanced stages. We do not infer from this experience that the game was not developed by someone. We know that someone will have made the rules. If we come across a computer software or application, then after observation and careful thinking, we can decipher how it was made. By having grasp of computer programming, we can identify the recipe – the code and algorithm – which is behind that computer application. However, it does not mean that discovering the programming code and algorithm of an existing computer program proves its self-existence without any developer.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“When we play, every day is different. All three of my bandmates surprise me all the time.”
“When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we are out to make money.”
“When we play, we sense no limitations. In fact, when we are playing, we are usually unaware of ourselves. Self-observation goes out the window. We forget all those past lessons of life, forget our potential foolishness, forget ourselves. We immerse ourselves in the act of play. And we become free.”
Source: Beyond Love and Work: Why Adults Need to Play
“When we played against Dan Marino, the best defense was to keep him on the sideline. By keeping him on the sideline, you made him frustrated. You made him anxious. When he came on the field, he felt like he had to score every time. I think that is where Peyton Manning is.”
“When we played at Celtic Park for Bayern in the Champions League it was unbelievable and I think all our players said the same thing afterwards. The atmosphere was just totally unique. I’ve played in lots of big games and stadiums but I’ve never witnessed fans making that much noise in 90 minutes.”
“When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.”
“When we played the back end of a horse we always knew that if we worked hard and did a good job we could become the front end.”
Source: Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed
“When we played, we were all the same. We were all one.”
Source: Furia
“When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.”
“When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance.”
“When we police a woman's affect, when we privilege it or equate it with her actions, with what she actually does, we're engaging in our most pervasive and yet our most quiet form of sexism, our most quiet form of everyday violence.”
Source: Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
“When we ponder His voluntary atonement, any sense of sacrifice on our part becomes completely overshadowed by a profound sense of gratitude for the privilege of serving Him.”
“When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' The feelings of heartfelt gratitude for the supreme sacrifice made by so many cannot be confined to a Memorial Day, a military parade, or a decorated grave.”
“When we possess something without knowing its value, we abuse it.”
“When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.”
“When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul”
“When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.”
“When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.”
Source: Lovingkindness
“When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing.”
“When we practice paying attention, moving with ease of body and mind, and being efficient, our body becomes very capable and strong, and the mind is able to be calm and travel further inward, where we have direct access to your unique creativity, intuition, and feelings of connectivity.”
“When we practice paying attention, whether in meditation, yoga (moving mediation), or simply walking down the street, we can choose to be at ease, or choose to be tense. It's a choice, and that choice is up to no one but us to decide.”
“When we practice Right Mindfulness, we see the seed of Buddhahood in everyone, including ourselves. This is Right View. Sometimes it is described as the Mother of All Buddhas (prajna paramita), the energy of love and understanding that has the power to free us. When we practice mindful living, our Right View will blossom, and all the other elements of the path in us will flower, also.”
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“When we practice suffering we are reinforcing neural pathways associated with discomfort and behavioral persistence.”
Source: The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion
“When we practise self-compassion, we look after ourselves just as though we are nurturing a small child. In fact, a major part of grieving our original pain work (so that we can heal and be emotionally liberated) is to re-parent ourselves and reconnect with our inner child.
This is what the author, John Bradshaw, meant by ‘reclaiming our inner child’. In recovery, we can begin to nurture our inner child and connect deeply with our heart and spirit.”
Source: The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
“When we praise greatness in the world, greatness increases in the world. No praise for greatness is too much, so let us not restrain ourselves!”
“When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.”
Source: God's Workmanship: And, He Shall Glorify Me
“When we pray and meditate sincerely and soulfully, we receive an open-hearted invitation from heaven.”
“When we pray and worship, we need to do more than just raise our hands and voices, we need to raise our thinking.”
“When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.”
“When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.”
“When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, ‘Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen.”
“When we pray for miracles to everyone or everybody, we are spreading corruption through the pulpit.”
“When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.”
“When we pray for the Spirit, we are not praying for an answer; we are praying for God to enter us, to fill us with his presence, his thoughts, and his words.”
“When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.”
“When we pray "Let your kingdom come," we aren't asking God to bring history to an end and whisk us to realms of glory, or to wave a magic wand and solve all the problems we face in our life. Rather, we are making a radical commitment to live our life in the world ("on earth") in such loving abandonment to God that the values and principles, the perspectives and dynamics of God's realm of life and wholeness become incarnate in and through our being and doing. Here too we are utterly incapable of actualizing the kingdom in this way. We can, however, through loving abandonment, allow God to incarnate kingdom life in and through us in the circumstances of our daily life.”
Source: The Deeper Journey: The Spirituality of Discovering Your True Self
“When we pray over our choices and decisions (the big and important stuff) we acknowledge that God is in control. When we bring to Him our plans first to get His will and not the other way around, we will be blessed and be assured of being in God’s will.”
Source: The Solomon Principles
“When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.”
“When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.”
“When we pray we admit defeat.”
Source: The Wanting Seed
“When we pray, we are often expressing gratitude, acknowledging our blessings, and praying for support and insight in challenging times. When we meditate, we are listening intentionally to the exchange between the Holy Spirit and ourselves, and we often watch as our thoughts battle with the greater truth of the Spirit.”
Source: Meditations on Christ: A 5-Minute Guided Journal for Christians
“When we pray, we gain strength. Prayer gives us strength.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“When we pray, we invoke Heaven’s blessings and inhibit hell from tormenting our lives.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.”