W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you pay attention, you prop the door of your soul ajar to welcome the unexpected and the uncontrolled... . You can't access your interior landscape by banging down a closed door; you can pencil it in as an appointment on your calendar. Paying attention is a habit forming mind-set that comes with repetition and with intention. You give yourself permissiong to "do nothing." You create quiet spaces. You open a door.”
Source: Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History
“When you pay for stuff, it has more of your interests in heart.”
“When you pay high for the priceless, you're getting it cheap.”
“When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired. Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting on when you retire depends on whether Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money.”
“When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.”
“When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.”
“When you peel back the glamorous veneer of the astronaut, you find that it is a really dangerous and biologically toxic job.”
“When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world? Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because if you can separate sex from procreation, you have given women the ability to participate in society on an equal basis with men.”
“When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.”
Source: Beauty Queens
“When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.”
“When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written, I always say "C'mon, humans don't speak that way."”
“When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.”
“When you perceive that problems serve a purpose in your life, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise.”
“When you perceive why we are exist, at the moment you are eligible to interrogate with creator (GOD)”
“When you perceive yourself as spirit, you will not simply feel love - you will BE love.”
“When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.”
“When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.”
“When you perform well, it potentially opens doors for others. Work smart and be confident in your leadership role. Stir your faith up and lead the way to positive change.”
“When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there.”
Source: Al Pacino
“When you permit an outside agency to control your feelings and emotions at frequent intervals for a prolonged period, your system will soon get into the habit of submitting to the control of this outside agency, and will not respond any longer to any effort that the will may make to regain its original power of control.”
“When you persist in pursuing your vision, you can rewrite your story from one of pity into a story of victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“When you persuade yourself that you “get to” do something rather than “have to,” you can find a silver lining. For instance, saying “I have to clean the house” implies cleaning is an unpleasant task. On the other hand, saying “I get to clean the house” reframes the labor as something you look forward to, emphasizing how important it is to have a place to live in the first place. A great strategy to change your perspective and enhance your mental health is to reframe the tasks you encounter in daily life with a positive outlook.”
Source: JetSet Life Hacks: 33 Life Hacks Millionaires, Athletes, Celebrities, & Geniuses Have In Common
“When you persue an interest, think of it as an exploration rather than a binding contract.”
Source: How to Be Everything
“When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.”
“When you photograph a lot of women, you get to know things.”
“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
“When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!”
“When you pick a career like acting, it's challenging, but it's a lesson every time you put yourself out there. I wouldn't change it for the world - I love what I learn every single day.”
“When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.”
“When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.”
“When you pick up a script you want to do you generally have a theme you're trying to work with, and then it expands from that.”
“When you pick up your first magazine you definitely hope you can be like the guy on the magazine. That's usually why you start lifting.”
“When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.”
“When you place a value on things like health, love, sex and other things, and learn to place a material value on what you've previously discounted for being merely intangible ... you realize you're much, much wealthier than you ever imagined.”
“When you plan a journey from your mind into mine, remember to allow for the time difference.”
Source: All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts
“When you plan a work, Work the plan, the plan will work.”
Source: Synergy: The Key to Principle Centered Development
“When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!”
“When you plan something, it never works.”
“When you plan to make a difference, you will attract enormous success if you keep working with diligence.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.”
Source: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition
“When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.”
Source: The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom From The Patterns That Bind You
“When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful.”
“When you plant a tree, you bring nature a step closer to your home.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“When you plant early, you bring spring early.”
Source: The Shape of a Year
“When you plant lettuce, you don’t blame the lettuce if it does not grow well. You look into the reasons why it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of others, they will grow well, just like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade by means of reason or argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument—just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and any difficult situation will improve.”
Source: At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life
“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.”
“When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they’re ready.”
“When you plant seeds of kindness in the hearts of others, you cultivate a garden of trust, compassion, and understanding that will bloom in ways you never imagined.”
“When you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.”
“When you play a character that exists or existed, there's a stronger responsibility that you have. You owe that person and then you owe the family, you owe history, you owe the victims, the victims' families.”