W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.”
“When we share potential with something that hasn't got the capacity to accept it, if it can't be absorbed, it's deflected elsewhere.
If we share with something dull, part is absorbed, yet not enough potential is returned to gain momentum.”
“When we Shienarans ride, every man knows who is next in line if the man in command falls. A chain unbroken right down to the last man left, even if he's nothing but a horseholder. That way, you see, even if he is the last man, he is not just a straggler running and trying to stay alive. He has the command,and duty calls him to do what must be done. If I go to the last embrace of the mother, the duty is yours. You will find the Horn, and you will take it where it belongs. You will.”
Source: The Great Hunt
“When we shift from negatively complaining to positively affirming, conditions change. Then complaining is no longer the operative law in our life-freedom is.”
“When we shift from trying to figure it out to feeling our way, insight arrives.”
Source: Time Slipping
“When we shift our emphasis from behavior to character, people evaluate choices differently. Instead of asking whether this behavior will achieve the results they want, they take action because it is the right thing to do. In the poignant words of one Holocaust rescuer, “It’s like saving somebody who is drowning. You don’t ask them what God they pray too. You just go and save them.”
Source: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
“When we shift our focus away from impressing others or asserting ourselves through words and move away from the ego-driven impulse toward self-glorification, we can embrace the wisdom of non-attachment and honor an authentic sense of balance in our interactions with others. ("Esprit d’escalier" - " Staircase Wit")”
“When we shift our perception, our experience changes.”
“When we shine the light, darkness dissolves.”
Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST
“When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I dont have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.”
“When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and when we sow seed, we look for a harvest; so likewise when we sow our prayers, through Christ, in God's bosom, shall we not look for an answer and observe how we speed? It is a seed of atheism to pray and not to look how we speed. But a sincere Christian will pray and wait, and strengthen his heart with promises out of the Word, and never leave praying and looking up till God gives him a gracious answer.”
“When we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going to leave. I had heavy death threats at that time. So we shot in Zimbabwe. In 1995, I had the privilege and the honor to meet Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela the same day: I had breakfast with Desmond Tutu and lunch with Nelson Mandela. Then I had the good fortune to have Mr. Mandela actually come to my house in California. There's been a tremendous amount of change.”
“When we shot "Stargate," he [ Jaye Davidson] came up to me at one point and said, "I don't like shooting movies," and I said, "Why?" "Too many people stare at me." I said, "Then you're totally in the wrong business."”
“When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.”
“When we shot that [Westworld], it was so funny. Not funny - I mean, like, funny-strange because I, personally as an actress and as a person, am so used to having to play the damsel, that when we were shooting that scene, and Jimmi looked at me and said, "Dolores, run," I ran. Then I stopped myself, and I turned around and I went, "Oh my God. I'm so used to running."”
“When we shot the first series of Aerobic Striptease, we shot five DVD's, so we slowly put out each DVD and timed it out that they were all done and shot and ready to go. We just started shooting the next series once we felt it was time to work on the next one.”
“When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise its nose. We can learn the Dharma from the oak tree; therefore, the oak tree is part of our Dharmakaya. We can learn from everything that is around, that is in us.”
Source: Being Peace: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“When we show love and care towards the environment, it responds in kind by safeguarding us. By embracing the environment with a sense of enjoyment, we can experience a profound sense of tranquility and mental rejuvenation.”
“When we show love to others, God's presence is with us.”
Source: Praying through Hard Times: Finding Strength In God's Presence
“When we show people that something is possible that they didn't think was possible it does more than just change things. It changes the way people think about the possibility of things changing. It helps them see that life is not the same day-after day, unsurprising, unending drudgery that so much of life teaches them that it is. And that is a huge contribution to their humanity.”
“When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.”
Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
“When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.”
Source: Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times
“When we shrink our whole reality down to pending projects, when our life becomes our endless to-do list, it's difficult to put them aside each night and let ourselves fall asleep and connect with something deeper.”
Source: The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time
“When we shut down certain feelings, it's easy to lose our natural relationship with them. But having feelings is an essential part of being human. They are the essence of who you are as a person, and without them it's hard to know important things about yourself like:
who you are,
what kind of relationships you want,
what you want to do for work or purpose,
what gives your life meaning.
All of these things require having access to your feelings.”
Source: Notes From Your Therapist
“When we signed with Warner Bros., they knew what they were getting. They knew they weren't going to get some easily manipulated prepackaged pop group. That was not going to happen. What they wanted, I think, was the integrity that we had to offer. What they wanted was the kind of street cred or cache that R.E.M. could bring to them and the chance that we would give them a hit or two. What happened was we gave them a bunch of hits. And we became huge.”
“When we simplify, we are attending to our minds. Clear
minds lead to creativity, vision, health, and productivity.”
Source: Pivot Leadership: Small Steps...Big Change
“When we simply notice and allow things to be as they are, we naturally disengage from the impulses that would try to control or change things. This is not a practice in passivity or ignorance—quite the opposite. This is a practice in opening your mind and allowing yourself to receive all the information you possibly can before making any moves or taking any action. Notice the word allow. We do not force ourselves to pick up on sensory input; the awareness expands naturally from a practice of calm, relaxed allowing.”
Source: Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You
“When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.”
Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
“When we sin, Satan tells us we are lost. In contrast, our Redeemer offers redemption to all—no matter what we have done wrong—even to you and to me.”
“When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.”
“When we sincerely turn to God, we will find that His church always moves forward, not backward”
Source: Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
“When we sing a song we give our soul a cuddle”
“When we sing praises to our Lord, we join in the chorus that creation has been singing from the beginning of time. And it is the same anthem that we as believers will be singing for all eternity.”
“When we sing the blues, we're singin' out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues.”
“When we sing to God, he is our audience. We are lifting our worship to him. Those on the stage only facilitate that worship. They lead us in praise to him.”
Source: Revealed Truth: A Journey From Fear to Faith
“When we sing together, our hearts start to beat together.”
Source: The Book of Mind: Seeking Gnosis
“When we sing, our hearts can lift and fly, over the troubled waters and over the years.”
Source: Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music
“When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.”
Source: The Jewish State
“When we sit as judges over God's rules, we make ourselves God. We say, 'I will be the one to determine if this is right. I am smart enough, trustworthy enough, to do so. I have what it takes to determine if this is a good rule or not.' ...we make it only about the law itself because we have no relationship with whoever installed it. But God's laws...are like the words of a good parent. To go against a good parent when you're a child in their house is not just about an action, but about breaking trust between people.”
Source: Born Again This Way
“When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“When we sit down to draw or paint the sun's rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you're left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.”
“When we sit down to eat at home, it’s really easy to add another task, such as watching TV or reading. We can be so busy that we don’t even bother to sit down or take our food out of its container.”
Source: The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
“When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper, we see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there's nothing more to it. We leave it be. The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.”
“When we sit in stillness, we are profoundly active.”
“When we sit thoughtfully pondering in a quiet place and the Spirit speaks to us, there will come into our hearts and souls the things that are truly our greatest desires, those things that are more important in the long run than anything else. Away from the appeal of the world, that greatest desire usually relates to relationships with family and with the Lord. And when that priority is in place, then we begin to plan our lives with purpose. We begin to have goals that cause us to live with anticipation.”
“When we sit, we open our own treasure house. Rather than do this, however, most of us first seek to find the treasures another person can provide. We calculate their value to us. When we approach relationships in this manner, we are coming as beggars, seeing the other as a source of supply. When we can enter a relationship with our treasure house already open, there is no end to the wonders we can find, both within and between ourselves and another.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Falling in Love
“When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.”