W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you spent so much time being terrified that you're going to get something, and then you have it, you don't have to be terrified anymore.”
“When you spent your time, you are actually spending your life.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.”
Source: How Did You Get This Number
“When you splice imagination with knowledge, they give birth to a healthy work of fiction, for instance. Like a child produced by the union of a man and a woman.”
“When you split and toast a hot cross bun, the warmth releases the smell of cinnamon and the citrus oils in the candied peel. The bun should be torn apart, never cut. Teasing one half from the other with your fingers provides a craggy surface whose furrows will hold the melted butter in tiny puddles like rain on a hoggin path.
But (and it is a big but) the rough, toasted surface is never quite hot enough to melt the butter. Once the buttering is done, something that is to be set about with extreme generosity, the bun must be placed back under the grill in order for the butter to melt.
Perfection is when you manage to catch the bun just as the butter has formed a golden pool yet retains a patch of glistening, soft-but-not-yet-liquid butter at its centre. A shining, golden coin in the middle of your bun.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“When you split from someone, it doesn't have to mean that you don't love them anymore, you realize that the period of that particular romance is over. One always has to get out before one gets kicked out.”
“When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.”
Source: Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy
“When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.”
“When you squeeze an orange, you'll always get orange juice to come out. What comes out is what's inside. The same logic applies to you: when someone squeezes you, puts pressure on you, or says something unflattering or critical, and out of you comes anger, hatred, bitterness, tension, depression, or anxiety, that is what's inside. If love and joy are what you want to give and receive, change your life by changing what's inside”
“When you squint at the sun, you can see its cosmic cock. When I shake my head, the sun's cock shakes, and that's why the wind howls down from the void.”
Source: Ultra-Gash Inferno
“When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.”
“When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.”
“When you stand accused, your character is being tested. The strength of character that you reveal will ultimately determine the Tanks’ perception of you and future behavior toward you. Action Plan Step 1. Hold Your Ground. The first step is to stay put and hold your ground, neither running away nor gearing for battle. Do not change your position, whether you happen to be standing, sitting, leaning, or making up your mind. You don’t have to go on the offensive or the defensive. Instead, silently look the Tank in the eyes, and shift your attention to your breathing. Breathe slowly and deeply. Intentional breathing is a terrific way to regain your self-control. And while you compose yourself, the Tank has the opportunity to fire off a round unimpeded. When Martin found himself under attack, he restrained his impulse to counterattack. Instead, he held his ground. He looked into his boss’s eyes, kept breathing, and waited for the blasting to stop. When it did, Martin asked, “Is that everything?” Apparently, that wasn’t all. The Tank loaded up another round a of abuse and fired it off. Martin held his temper in check, took a slow breath, and asked evenly, “Anything else?” “Why, you ...” Sherman loaded up his last round and fired it off. He was now completely out of ammunition, having said every rotten thing he knew how to say. At that point, he just stood there silently glaring at Martin, as if waiting for an answer will ultimately determine the Tanks’ perception of you and future behavior toward you.”
Source: Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst
“When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.”
“When you stand and overcome a significant setback, you'll find an increasing inner confidence and self-assurance that has been created by conquering defeat. Absorbing and overcoming this kind of punishment engenders a sober, steely toughness that results in a hardened sense of independence and a personal belief that you can take on anything, survive and win.”
Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
“When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.”
“When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.”
Source: Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
“When you stand between two mirrors you're spread out among the images, your whole soul is pulled out thin, and somewhere in the distant images a dark part of you might get out and come looking for you, if you aren't careful.”
“When you stand in front of a mirror, what you see is not who you are. What you see is just a temporary form through which you express. Who and what you truly are, is the one seeing.”
“When you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.”
“When you stand in the present, you become thoughtlessly aware. And this state is the first state you achieve, and this is the state where you become absolutely peaceful within yourself. The peace is so great that you enjoy your peaceful existence. Not only that, but you become the source of peace. Wherever you go, you emit peace.”
“When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness, you do it anyway. Why? Because you no longer want to suffer. Because you're willing to be disturbed. You're willing to be amazed. You're willing to be surprised. You're willing to realize that maybe everything you've ever thought about yourself really isn't true.”
Source: Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering
“When you stand inside somebody's library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now but who they've been. . . . It's a wonderful thing to have in a house. It's something I worry is endangered by the rise of the e-book. When you turn off an e-book, there's no map. All that's left behind is a chunk of gray plastic. ~ Lev Grossman”
Source: Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books
“When you stand next to beauty and know you’re not, you either feel inferior or you’re thankful for the ones who saw you and loved you anyway.”
“When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.”
Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“When you stand on the victory stand, you must be able to ask yourself: 'Did I win this medal?'”
“When you stand out there," John continues in a hoarse voice, "keep your chin up, all right? Don't let them get to you." "I won't." "Make them work for it. Punch someone if you have to." John gives me a sad, crooked smile. "You're a scary kid. So scare them. Okay? All the way until the end." For the first time in a long time, I feel like a little brother. I have to swallow hard to keep my eyes dry. "Okay," I whisper.”
“When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.”
“When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.”
“When you stand tall, you can recall that even small steps lead to a big haul.”
“When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.”
“When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all know and that are very common. You may lose your job. You may lose custody of your child. You may be blamed for the failure of your marriage even though it was the man who couldn't tolerate an equal relationship.”
“When you stand up for yourself, you never know if you’re standing up for someone who isn’t ready to do the same. And you might be giving them the courage to do it somewhere down the road. And when they do, they help someone else. And it keeps on going down the line.”
Source: How to Be a Movie Star
“When you stand up for yourself, you are standing up for everyone who will follow your positive example!”
“When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.”
“When you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble.”
“When you stand with the outcasts, you stand with Jesus, and when you despise the outcast, you despise Jesus, as well. Becoming an activist is simply a matter of putting love into action.”
“When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.”
“When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.”
“When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.”
“When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.”
“When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.”
“When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.”
“When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people.”
“When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows.”
“When you start a movie, it's not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You're meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety.”
“When you start a movie... when it's a short, people don't care... but when it's a feature they want money.”
“When you start a new company, you have to do it all. Yes, all of it.”
“When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?”
“When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.”