W Quotes
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“When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!”
Source: Billie Jean
“When we reach the point where we can take responsibility for our actions, we can then say we have come of age. Because if we want to taste success, we must come to a moment of reckoning. Anybody who can reach that threshold can boldly say he is strong.”
Source: Embrace the Challenge: Turn the Negatives into Positives in Your Life
“When we reached the beach, Leif fell to his knees with a dramatic cry. "Solid ground! I'll never take you for granted again." "Are you going to kiss the sand?" I asked. "Don't be ridiculous." "Now I'M the one being silly?" "Yes.”
Source: Sea Glass
“When we reached The Point, we would first feel the slimy, rough rock below our bellies, as if being lifted on the back of a whale. We would pull ourselves along the rock’s massive underwater surface, careful to not graze our hands or knees, then climb up above the water, standing tall beside the tower of rocks. We spent the rest of our time sliding down its slippery backside, over and over again—our own natural playground.”
Source: Poppy and Pa
“When we reached the prayer flags and a pile of rocks that marked the highest point on the pass, the view was brilliant. There was hardly a cloud in the sky. To the south we could see rolling foothills: the gentle ups and downs that we’d walked through. Some of the hillsides were red or purple with rhododendron blossoms. To the west and east there was a muddle of ridges and spurs. To the north, there were several mighty snow-capped himals. The real Himalayan giants were mostly east of where we stood. We were a very long way from anywhere. We were a very long way from help.”
Source: Chasing the Tiger
“When we react to life from the head without joining forces with the heart, it can lead us into childish, inelegant behavior that we don't respect in ourselves. If we get the head in sync with the heart first, we have the power of their teamwork working for us and we can make the changes we know we need to make.”
“When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.”
“When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and we arrive at new judgments. These attitudes are brought into relation with many others, including our standing tendencies to think and feel in particular ways, and we try to fit our psychological capacities and responses together.”
“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.”
Source: Keeping a Rendezvous
“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
Source: Keeping a Rendezvous
“When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities. Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.”
“When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment.”
“When we read about the events that occurred in the lives of those individuals that God raised up as leaders, we see a pattern emerging – that of character testing. Think of Joseph, King David, Daniel, Joshua, Elijah, Elisha, the disciples. They all had to go through some character training. At times in our life, we will be faced with and find ourselves in situations that we think we are unable to handle or situations that we have no natural talent for. We will be out of our depth. These situations are designed by God as character forming or character shaping events. They are essential to our growth and us accomplishing the will and plan of God for our lives.”
“When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil: so in reading; the greater part of the work of thought is already done for us. This is why it relieves us to take up a book after being occupied with our own thoughts. And in reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another’s thoughts. So it comes about that if anyone spends almost the whole day in reading, and by way of relaxation devotes the intervals to some thoughtless pastime, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking; just as the man who always rides, at last forgets how to walk. This is the case with many learned persons: they have read themselves stupid.”
Source: Essays and aphorisms
“When we read, another person thinks for us; we merely repeat his mental process… So it comes about that if anyone spends almost the whole day in reading… he gradually loses the capacity for thinking…such is the case with very many scholars; they have read themselves stupid… Experience of the world may be looked upon as a kind of text, to which reflection and knowledge form the commentary. When there is a great deal of reflection and intellectual knowledge, and very little experience, the result is like those books which have on each page two lines of text to forty lines of commentary.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena
“When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.”
“When we read fiction and memoir, we participate in the lives of others, in their sufferings, ecstasies, yearnings, and struggles, in all the ways their lives are shattered and put back together. We are able to see the world through their eyes and feel with their hearts.”
Source: Writing Creativity and Soul
“When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.”
“When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.”
Source: Selected essays
“When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.”
“When we read or hear how some professed Christian has turned defaulter, or lapsed into drunkenness, or slipped from the communion table into open disgrace, it simply means than a human arm has broken. The man has forsaken the everlasting arms.”
“When we read or listen deeply - it should be as a movie playing in our mind. That's why speed can be an important consideration for someone with an important message, although it may be possible for the observer to adapt and ease into tempo (a warmup). Perhaos most important - subjective insight, not what the message means to me but what the message means to the author. To make matters worse - each languages is more or less visually descriptive than others and even if a word translates, the true meaning can differ gradiently. The complexity of the movie depends on our minds ability to grasp geometry and dimensions beyond two. Colour is not as important as contrast.
Each word should paint a vivid image, otherwise we need to learn more about the word itself or the way in which we structure our minds.
//Easy is a tree, challenging is analysis.”
“When we read or listen deeply - it should be as a movie playing in our mind. That's why speed can be an important consideration for someone with an important message, although it may be possible for the observer to adapt and ease into tempo (a warmup). Perhaps most important - subjective insight, not what the message means to me but what the message means to the author. To make matters worse - each languages is more or less visually descriptive and even if a word translates - true meaning can differ gradiently. The complexity of the movie depends on our minds ability to grasp geometry and dimensions beyond two. Colour is not as important as contrast.
Each word should paint a vivid image, otherwise we need to learn more about the word itself or the way in which we structure our minds.
//Easy is a tree, challenging is analysis.”
“When we read or listen deeply - it should be as a movie playing in our mind. That's why speed can be an important consideration for someone with an important message, although it may be possible for the observer to adapt and ease into tempo (a warmup). Perhaps most important - subjective insight, not what the message means to me but what the message means to the author. To make matters worse - each languages is more or less visually descriptive and even if a word translates - true meaning can differ gradiently. The complexity of the movie depends on our minds ability to grasp geometry and dimensions beyond two. Colour is not as important as contrast.
Each word should paint a vivid image, otherwise we need to learn more about the word itself or the way in which we structure our minds.
Touchable or not.”
“When we read our own writing, we all think it clearly expresses what we mean, because when we read it, we are only reminding ourselves of what we had in mind when we wrote it.”
“When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.”
“When we read tales of atrocity, we all want to be the one who stood firm, who would not bend, who shouted the truth in the face of the dictator.
Vsevolod Meyerhold came as close as anyone to achieving this. It is important to know of the full horror of his sacrifice.
It is easy for all to imagine we are heroes when we are sitting in our kitchens, dreaming of distant suffering.
- Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad”
“When we read tales of atrocity, we all want to be the ones who stood firm, who would not bend, who shouted the truth in the face of the dictator ... It is easy for us all to imagine we are heroes when we are sitting in our kitchens, dreaming of distant suffering.”
Source: Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
“When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.”
“When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.”
“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”
Source: Pensees: Thoughts on Religion
“When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is still possible to experience an instant sense of freedom and privacy is anywhere you open up a good book and begin to read. When we read silently, we are alone with our own thoughts and one other voice. We can take our time, consider, evaluate, and digest what we read—with no commercial interruptions, no emotional music or special effects manipulation. And in spite of the advances in electronic information exchange, the book is still the most important medium for presenting ideas of substance and value, still the only real home of literature.”
“When we read, we see the world through others’ eyes. Our differences seem smaller, and the divisions that lead to war can break down.”
Source: Nour's Secret Library
“When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.”
Source: Course of the History of Modern Philosophy
“When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.”
“When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at one time.”
“When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.”
Source: The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
“When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves”
Source: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950
“When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is.”
Source: A Study in Consciousness: A Contribution to the Science of Psychology
“When we realise we can add to the World, change the World, contribute positively to the World, simply via being Aware, we undergo a profound moment of Personal Empowerment. - Biella Noble”
“When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and negligence then of so many who live blind and asleep to this reality of sin. There is an exceeding efficacy nad power in the indwelling sin of believers, for it constantly inclines itself towards evil. We need to be awake, then, if our hearts would know the ways of God. Our enemy is not only upon us, as it was with Samson, but it is also in us.”
“When we realize and embrace the Lord's will for us, we will love to do it. We won't want to do anything else. It's a passion.”
Source: All for Jesus: A Devotional
“When we realize every moment is sacred, we understand that every footstep is sacred, too.”
“When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.”
“When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.”
Source: Jesus, Continued...: Why the Spirit Inside You is Better than Jesus Beside You
“When we realize how little we mean to the universe, we realize how important we are to each other”
“When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. At other times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out of you is probably it.”
“When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.”
Source: Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
“When we realize that the seeds of the past are blossoming now, and that the future is being planted today, then we can really take peace and solace in the fact that nothing's ever gone.”
Source: Aloneness to Oneness: 22 Life Lessons to Change the Way You See the World