W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.”
“When you react, you let other control you. When you respond, you are in control.”
Source: Martial Arts Wisdom: Quotes, Maxims, and Stories for Martial Artists and Warriors
“When you react, you don't give your mind the time to get filled with emotions. You are devoid of anger, fear, and frustration; you are simply moving.”
“When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.”
“When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination. In the book, it's great when she can push a button and food comes up, as per your order.”
“When you read a book about old times, you realize that this book is more or less about our own time!”
“When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.”
“When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life.”
“When you read a book, you acquire knowledge.
When you look at a flower, your imagination grows wild.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“When you read a book, and it's really, really beautiful, you're so engaged you forget to breathe. If you're in a car accident, and everything moves slowly, you can be shocked into the present. The past and the future disappear.”
“When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.”
“When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?”
“When you read a fantasy novel part of the fun is getting to explore a new world. Everyone knows that. But I believe the same is true about characters. You can explore interesting people in the same way that you explore a town or a culture.”
“When you read a good book, you feel something like this in the depths of your soul: You will definitely re-read this book many times! And when you meet the person you love, you will feel the same thing again!”
“When you read a great book at one point in your life then in another part of your life, when you read the same book, it's like it was just written because now what you bring to the experience is so much richer.”
“When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”
“When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.”
“When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make it. That research has gone into it and we say "This is a history of the civil war, this is a biography of Lincoln" whatever. But you don't make any such supposition when you say "This is a historical novel."”
“When you read a manuscript that has been damaged by water, fire, light or just the passing of the years, your eye needs to study not just the shape of the letters but other marks of production. The speed of the pen. The pressure of the hand on the page. Breaks and releases in the flow. You must relax. Think of nothing. Until you wake into a dream where you are at once a pen flying of vellum and the vellum itself with the touch of ink tickling your surface. Then you can read it. The intention of the writer, his thoughts, his hesitations, his longings and his meaning. You can read as clearly as if you were the very candlelight illuminating the page as the pen speeds over it.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.”
“When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.”
“When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.”
Source: The Best American Poetry 2015
“When you read a poem, you may not get out of it all that the poet put into it, but you are different from the poet. You’re different from everybody else who is going to read the poem, so you should take from it what you need. Use it personally.”
Source: Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
“When you read a script, you don't want to be the same guy all the time, you want to change, you're a different person. That's why acting is a wonderful career. You're not the same guy all the time.”
“When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.”
“When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.”
“When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?”
“When you read about the end of the Soviet Union, it's always about the "death of socialism." They never say "the death of democracy." But it makes about the same sense.”
“When you read all the Stellah Mupanduki books breathed by the Holy Spirit of a Sovereign God you glow and you remain bold and beautiful. Even as you age, you become more beautiful as an old person. Beauty flows with you as the Holy Spirit flows in you..”
Source: Four In One Healing Books: Joyful wells Of Salvation
“When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.”
“When you read Boethius and some of the Renaissance philosophers, they talk a lot about the other spheres. There's a music of the spheres. There's a music that's actually in the universe, they believed, that's out there in different dimensions.”
“When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.”
“When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.”
“When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".”
“When you read good books, interact with good people, you are sowing the seeds of good thoughts in your mind. You also need to water them daily till they take deep roots in your mind. You have to provide them with plenty of sunshine, air and nutrients regularly. When their roots go deep, they can draw all nutrition and water on their own and no effort or very little effort will be required from your end.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“When you read magazines and you see everybody having fun, you think, ‘okay, that’s where I want to be.’ But once you get in it and you achieve the success that you want, it seems like that’s where the player hating starts. You know that’s where everybody’s like, ‘Well it’s not all that”
“When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty is not just the lack of food, shelter, and clothing. Real poverty is the belief that the purpose of life is acquiring wealth and owning things. Real wealth is not the possession of property but the recognition that our deepest need, as human beings, is to keep developing our natural and acquired powers to relate to other human beings.”
Source: The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
“When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me”
“When you read my texts, you saw a curt, miserable git. And you told me so. Maybe you're right. But you know what I saw when I read yours? - Sam No. And I don't want to know. - Poppy I saw a girl who races to help others but doesn't help herself. And right now you need to help yourself. No one should walk up the aisle feeling inferior or in a different league or trying to be something they're not. - Sam”
“When you read or hear ‘don’t change for anyone,’ that doesn’t mean not to grow or improve yourself. Personal development is not changing into something you’re not, it’s the becoming of who you really are.”
“When you read someone's poetry, you carry their pain. When you listen to their music, you carry their soul.”
“When you read something that good, it's terrifying because you're thinking, "Oh, god, what if I don't get this?"”
“When you read that our heavenly home is similar to a bride, tell me, doesn't it make you want to go home.”
Source: The Applause of Heaven: Discover the Secret to a Truly Satisfying Life
“When you read the [Twilight series], it's like saying 'Edward Cullen is so beautiful I creamed myself'. I mean every line is like that. He's the most ridiculous person who's so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn't do it. And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that's how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he's a 108-year old virgin, so there's clearly some issues there”
“When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story. It's Zero Hour.”
He paused.
“It's Zero Hour now.”
Source: Towards Zero
“When you read the Bible, it's as though it reads you.”
“When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.”
“When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me”
“When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their honest opinion.”
“When you read the context of Jesus' words, you'll realize that Jesus isn't calling us to shoulder an extra burden; He is calling us to exchange a heavy burden for a lighter one. He is calling us to take His yoke because it is easier and lighter than the one we are presently carrying.”
Source: Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul