W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but DO NOT BE FOOLED. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.”
“When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work.”
“When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.”
“When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.”
“When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty.”
“When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.”
“When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.”
Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
“When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.”
Source: The wisdom of Confucius
“When you see a good move, look for a better one.”
“When you see a good move, sit on your hands and find a better one.”
“When you see a good move, sit on your hands and see if you can find a better one.”
“When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.”
“When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.”
“When you see a guy flying into the air on fire, that's not me, obviously. I do all the water tricks, though.”
“When you see a guy go down, you smell blood in the water.”
“When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky You can bet that he's doing it for some doll.”
Source: The Guys and dolls book
“When you see a handwritten envelope addressed to you in your packet of mail when you get your mail out of the mailbox - when you see a personal letter waiting for you - it's exciting. It touches you. You say "Oh, somebody really thought of me and didn't just slap a mailing label across an envelope. Somebody wrote something to me."”
“When you see a horse that’s troubled, you sort of feel sorry for them, yet that doesn’t mean that you wouldn’t still ask the horse to behave and find a way to fit in and respond to you as well.”
“When you see a knife, fork and a spoon it seems to me like there are two of them together on one side of a plate, and then there's one on the other. It seems like a couple and a singleton. It seems obvious to me!”
“When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.”
“When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evolutionary cruelty and a primitive disturbance deprived of any kind of ethics!”
“When you see a magical house, experience that magic to the fullest, because if you enter the house you may be disappointed, the magic may disappear! The same goes for people you admire!”
“When you see a man, do you ask yourself whether he is a novel or a poem?”
“When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.”
“When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“When you see a man struggling financially, usually it's because he simply lacks a perfect muse.”
Source: Sensual Lifestyle
“When you see a man who does not take a serious danger seriously at all, you oddly start to worry more about the danger than the man!”
“When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.”
Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.
This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.”
“When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“When you see a movie, it's like you're attending a show of magic in which the magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat. You don't know how he did it, but a part of you is fascinated, or hypnotized, by what happened, another part of your brain says, "Oh, I want to do the same thing! I want to be that wielder of that magic. I want to be that magician on stage, and do the same thing to other people."”
“When you see a new day, you must see a new reason to think anew. You must see a new reason to start anew regardless of the woes of yesterday. You must see a reason to understand and appreciate the real gift of life knowing that you have yet another chance to prove your existence on earth worthy or not. You must see a new reason to choose positive thoughts to negative thoughts. You must see the real reason to rejoice, breathe a sigh of purposefulness and be poised to do something unique. You must see! oh yes! you must see a new reason and the urgency to live and leave a distinctive footprint”
“When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it?”
Source: The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
“When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.”
“When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.”
“When you see a picture of a woolly mammoth on a cave wall, that's weirdly similar to a person's lasagna that they thought looked delicious.”
“When you see a problem or an opportunity, I want you to shift your thinking from “We need a solution for that” to “We need a system for that.” A solution is a onetime fix that requires you to keep reinventing the wheel and puts you in a reactionary place. A system is an ongoing activity that becomes duplicatable.”
Source: Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few
“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.”
“When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.”
“When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.”
“When you see a small change in your life it means its a huge change in personality and your trait”
“When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.”
“When you see a spiritual person, never forget this: No one can be spiritual with their dress or appearance! Without knowing his life it is impossible to know whether he is a spiritual personality or not! Dresses, looks and words can be deceiving, it's best to look at the actions of a lifetime!”
“When you see a stranger, your mouth start dancing like convulsion.”
“When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.”
“When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to the perfection of minor details.”
“When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.”
Source: PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS
“When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.”
“When you see a Tibetan doctor taking care of a patient, first of all, of course there are many wonderful medicines that come from [there in the past] 2,000 years. But this doctor is usually so attentional, so kind, and so careful of what you really feel and then [he sees] you as a human being instead of running you through some quick tests. So that itself, the trust and confidence in someone that cares for you is of course so invigorating... that someone cares.”
“When you see a tiny plant, flower or tree in a dark stone street, be happy as if you saw a friend you love very much, and be even happier because this is such a friend that does wonderful things for your existence, it gives you oxygen!”