W Quotes
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“When you get out of the driver's seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver's seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined. Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.”
Source: The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
“When you get out onto a glacier that's the size of Northern Ireland and it's so vast, and you're standing on top of it and you can see forever, it's so pure and clear that you can see for miles and miles and miles. You really do think, "Wow, there is a god!" You feel very humbled.”
“When you get over 95, every day is your day.”
“When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.”
“When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.”
“When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved.”
Source: Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit
“When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.”
“When you get people who are out of office, suddenly their tongues loosen up and suddenly they say the things that you wish they'd said or did when they were in office.”
“When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.”
“When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.”
“When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.”
“When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.”
“When you get pushed down, you pick yourself up and move on. I've never been a victim.”
“When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.”
“When you get quick fame and success and exposure, it makes you feel dizzy, and I didn't want to lose my balance 'cause that's something I've been struggling with for so many years. I'm not fond of the idea of making it in Hollywood. That's not my aim; otherwise, I would have settled down in Los Angeles.”
“When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.”
“When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner.”
“When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'”
Source: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
“When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.”
“When you get rid of old material, you push yourself further and come up with something better.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.”
“When you get right down to it everything is not a cube. You can look around and see that.”
Source: Gringos
“When you get right down to it, self-criticism is yet another form of stress... Literally, our stress hormone levels increase.”
Source: Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
“When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.”
“When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself.”
“When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.”
“When you get seen in one particular way, it can be paralyzing. You start to believe it's all you can do.”
“When you get serious about your brand that is when the tide will shift.”
“When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.”
“When you get sick with the flu you get infected with flu viruses and they make lots of new flu viruses, but those new viruses are not exact copies of the old ones. They have mutations in them. A lot of those mutations are harmful.”
“When you get sick you will be surprised by who steps up and who steps away. I can honestly say I did not think this would apply to me. I could not imagine that anyone in my family or circle of friends would not be there for me. Wrong!”
Source: Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
“When you get so that you can't see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn't come by it gradually, I guess you'd just kill yourself when you couldn't see.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
“When you get so tired that you realize you cannot generate righteousness, come on back and I'll tell you about a gift.”
“When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!”
“When you get some success, you want more. When you get one mountain climbed, you want to climb the next one.”
“When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.”
“When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.”
“When you get started,
be happy for the courage that made
you start, then keep moving.
Success is getting closer to you
every day.”
“When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.”
“When you get talented people together with egos, this is kind of what happens.”
“When you get talking to people in positions of power, you find that often their worldview is framed either in terms of their disciplinary studies at university and/or the country where they first got interest in development.”
“When you get that nice celebration coming into the dugout and you're getting your ass hammered by guys, there's no better feeling than to have that done.”
“When you get that opportunity to be honest and open with somebody, for the first time, and share things about yourself that you haven't been able to share before, that you might be scared of or ashamed about, that's really exhilarating, and I think that's something that people will really identify with.”
“When you get that person out of that dude, that's the real person, you know. And I don't think its dead, but it needs to be more examples, of what a true gentleman and what a true man in every sense of the word is, and that's what I try to be.”
“When you get that tired, it becomes really challenging to keep bringing your best foot forward.”
“When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.”
“When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.”
“When you get the economy growing, that's when you can deal with the national debt.”
“When you get the hang of this, before you know it you will KNOW you are the creator.”
“When you get the ideas, that's a thrill; when you're writing the book and it's corning out well, that's a thrill; when you finish it and other people read it, that's a thrill. There are going to be reviews, of course; not everyone's going to love it. You feel sort of naked and vulnerable in a way. That's just a minor part of the process, really. If you can't take that part, you shouldn't be in the business. But there are so many joys to writing.”