W Quotes
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“When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“When you argue for free markets, you are arguing against the trend.”
“When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.”
Source: The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes
“When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love”
Source: Meditations
“When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living, If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.”
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
Source: Meditations
“When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love ... then make that day count!”
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
“When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.”
“When you arrive at the destination, never forget where the journey began.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.”
“When you arrive in China nowadays, one of the first things you note is the emphasis placed on you, a non-Chinese person, being an outsider.”
“When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.”
“When you arrive in heaven, you will know that answering the call was worth it. Answering the call is always worth it.”
“When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.”
“When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is cared for and protected by a covey of angels.
After some questioning, you find out that God's favorite book is Shelley's Frankenstein. He sits up at night with a worn copy of the book clutched in his mighty hands, alternately reading the book and staring reflectively at the night sky.”
Source: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“When you arrive really inside the discussion of race, practically they institute a Mexican-ness, a Latin-ness, a racial community that just isn't true. So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.”
“When you arrive where you thought you wanted to be, you'll just begin a new journey so enjoy each step along the way”
Source: Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life (Easyread Large Edition)
“When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community and often the community socially is broken.”
“When you as an American have freedom, the freedom encompasses a lot of things, including the right to do dumb stuff, to do destructive things. You have that right, and liberals somehow, for some reason want to just take control of every aspect of your life as possible, and every time you accede to letting them have it, or big government - you're just letting them have more and more control over your life. Where do you stop that? What's wrong with people regulating themselves? Where did that vanish to?”
“When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“When you ask "Do you wanna dance, my barefoot Cinderella? Don't need no slippers or a party dress,the way you're lookin' right now is what I like the best", and then you... Say "do you wanna take a chance? Stay with me forever, no one will ever be more beautiful my barefoot, my barefoot Cinderella.”
“When you ask "why", "what if" and "why not" you force yourself to explore what's possible and not just what is.”
“When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.”
“When you ask a girl out and she suggest a bar, you're answer shouldn't be great, I like that bar and they'll have the Rockets game on too.”
“When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.”
“When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one."”
“When you ask about "mission" it is easy to reference a "mission statement" which, in my case, is the quest, however Quixotic, at times, to sensitize everyone I am in contact with to the miracle of life on Earth, and our sacred responsibilities to preserve, protect and revere biodiversity, at every possible juncture of our days and nights. We have very little time.”
“When you ask an inventor for advice around finding you own genius ideas, their lack of insight into what the pieces of the puzzle are, and how they all fit together, means that they really can’t help you! Only you can help yourself, and the Outthinx Method is the ultimate DIY exercise for achieving this. The Method gives us the keys to unlock our own, unique genius. The Method makes locksmiths of us all.”
Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field
“When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.”
Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“When you ask for happiness and a beautiful life, ask not just for you, but for everyone. When you ask for something better, ask not just for you, but for everyone. By all means ask for abundance and health for you, but also ask for it to be given to everyone. Can you imagine what would happen if six billion people asked for these things for you?”
Source: The Secret Daily Teachings
“When you ask for help listen. It's one thing to ask the question and it's another thing to listen to the answer. Many people ask questions but they do not like what they hear and so they pretend that they heard nothing at all.”
“When you ask for patience, what you get is a line at the bank. In other words, life gives you the people, places, and situations that are going to allow you to once and for all develop what it is you need.”
“When you ask for the house, car, cat, dog and all the fish when you're dealing with a player who's got questions about his health, no GM in his right mind is going to say yes and offer to clean the aquarium, too.”
“When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends.”
“When you ask God for strength, as I do daily, he doesn't usually just drop it from the sky. He often answers by placing you in a circumstance that requires you to build fortitude while relying solely on him.”
Source: Just as I Am
“When you ask God for what you need through prayer, it does not imply that He is not aware; it is simply saying, "Lord, I trust you enough to ask you for what I desire.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.”
“When you ask me to sign your NDA, you're basically saying, in writing, that you don't trust me.”
“When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.”
“When you ask me who I look up to and who I can admire for their style right now, I have to choose from people that represent what I represent stylistically.”
“When you ask my three year old if my iPhone is too complicated, it's not. It's all relative.”
“When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.”
“When you ask people about themselves, are you just being polite or do you truly want to know? When you focus your intention and questions on them, it makes them feel special and valued. However, if you don’t sincerely want to know, it can backfire as appearing insincere.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“When you ask people about what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about being part of something larger than themselves, of being connected, of being generative. It becomes quite clear that, for many, their experiences as part of truly great teams stand out as singular periods of life lived to the fullest. Some spend the rest of their lives looking for ways to recapture that spirit.”
“When you ask people at a party about what they do – keep your ears strained for how many of them project themselves as unique . Most of them might say I work for ABC company that ‘s into software or XYZ company that is into retail without implying what is perceptually unique about their companies”
Source: Corporate Invisible Selling Behavioural Economics & More
“When you ask people what affects their wellbeing most, they think of health and wealth.”
“When you ask people what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about being part of something larger than themselves, of being connected, of being generative. It becomes quite clear that, for many, their experiences as part of truly great teams stand out as singular periods of life lived to the fullest.”
“When you ask people who are older about their experience with their first driving test, they often laugh about failed attempts because they perceive failing first time as unimportant. It was merely an inconvenience and didn’t have anything to do with their self-esteem, and probably not even how well they would ultimately drive!”