W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you have an idea, it is like carbon. It has potential. To make it into a diamond, you need to put in hard work. When you have a diamond, it may not be perfect. You need to polish it, improve it. Only then is it valuable.”
“When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.”
“When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.”
“When you have an inconsistent season, you learn a lot about yourself and your pitching.”
“When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can`t expect a restraining order or the police to provide 24-hour protection.”
“When you have an inspired thought, you must trust it and act on it.”
“When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal.”
“When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.”
“When you have an open mind and you're flexible....not married to your beliefs, you can see clearly because you're able to feel and remain neutral at the same time.
You're curious.”
Source: Choose Awareness
“When you have an opportunity to protect yourself, and you don't, you are no different than the people who hurt you.”
“When you have an opportunity to take the lead and you don't, most of the time something bad happens.”
“When you have an optimistic attitude and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.”
“When you have an unconditional love of Life, then you love Life just the way it is showing up, right here, right now. This is only possible when you are "seeing the perfection."”
“When you have an understanding of how things work, you will know better how to work things out”
Source: Go Forward
“When you have an uneasy feeling that happiness is beginning to slip through your fingers you hang on as tightly as you can; you don’t give it an added push away from you.”
Source: The Black Angel
“When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.”
“When you have another person take part in the interview, you must notify the interviewee.”
“When you have answers, when everything has a reason, when it makes sense to an analytical person, you're going to be more successful. You're going to be more comfortable.”
“When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.”
“When you have any sort of intense emotional reaction, you have a choice: look for proof that you should feel it even deeper or look for the thought process that is triggering the emotion. One takes you on a downwards spiral, while the other upwards. One breeds toxic patterns, the other awareness. The choice is yours.”
“When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the same day, if possible; if not, then certainly the next day. When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone, you should summon your overseer the next day, and should call for a report of what work has been done in good season and why it has not been possible to complete the rest, and what wine and corn and other crops have been gathered.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cato the Elder (Illustrated)
“When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.”
“When you have bacon and eggs for breakfast, the chicken makes a contribution, the pig makes a commitment.”
“When you have bacon in your mouth, it doesn't matter who's president.”
“When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.”
“When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.”
“When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.”
“When you have become the Embodiment of Gratitude, think about how Pure the Water that fills your Body will be. When this happens, you Yourself will be a Beautiful Shining Crystal of Light.”
“When you have been a possession,
then you really understand what freedom means
in all its magnificent terror.”
Source: Making Money
“When you have been a victim of constant hunger, you learn how to stop wasting food.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.”
Source: Between the Lines
“When you have been close to death it makes you think about life.”
Source: Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation
“When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.”
“When you have been hurt you lose your trust in the world. If the world’s mean to you when you’re a child, you spend the rest of your life being mean back.”
Source: Beach Music
“When you have been in TV and performing for as long as I have, you realise that you probably entertain in your sleep too... as for my catch phrase, I didn't actually say so much 'Can you see what it is yet?”
“When you have been insulted, cursed, or persecuted by someone, do not think of what has happened to you, but of what will come from it, and you will see that your insulter has become the cause of many benefits to you, not only in this age, but in that which is to come.”
“When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.”
“When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.”
“When you have been part of something that has failed, you appreciate and value success much more.”
“When you have been scarred for the longest time, it will be hard to trust, but there is a God you can trust; He does not scam anyone.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.”
“When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.”
“When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous.”
“When you have bewitched or assassinated the unwelcome, whoever remains,
however useless & boring, must be the only audience you still have left!"
-- Warlock Holmes, the Cumber-Batching Speech
Not only my advisers considered the quote above the best I got done at all on the Sherlock Crossover now lying in my failed projects folder...”
Source: Attempted Poetry
“When you have big dreams, do not let small things distract you. Ignore the noise and the naysayers. With a razor-sharp focus, endeavour to bridge the gap between your dreams and reality.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges. If you were an average person you would have average problems.”
“When you have big historic changes, there are going to be ups and downs... There are going to be peaks and valleys. Some things are going to go right. Some things are going to go wrong. But as long as the strategic direction is going in the right way, that's really what you have to judge.”
“When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.”
“When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.”
“When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.”