W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you start something you cannot give yourself a time-frame for success. You can't say: if it doesn't work out in six-months I will give up. Your only task is to keep doing whatever it takes to achieve the goal.”
Source: Simply Fly: A Deccan Odyssey
“When you start somewhere, you've started.”
“When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.”
“When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.”
“When you start taking consistent action, you will see results.”
“When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.”
Source: The quotable Ronald Reagan: the common sense and straight talk of former California Governor, Ronald Reagan
“When you start talking about movies of that size, they're trying to sell globally to foreign markets. So there is an economic question that can't be ignored, and that's a fair discussion to have. But maybe it's not the time to make that movie if you can't depict people accurately.”
“When you start talking about same-sex marriage, you start talking about abortion, and I think those issues are very very important and very interesting and very right for us to talk about, but when we allow those issues to cannibalize all other issues we find ourselves homeless while we debate about it.”
“When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.”
“When you start (telling it like it is) speaking the truth, those who opposed it are part of the on-going problems that exist in any society. But it's always good to acknowledge the rebuttal of an opposition. Because the better rebuttal will often win the debate.”
Source: Liberian Son
“When you start thinking about death more than sex, you know you're getting old.”
“When you start thinking about leaving, choose your moment carefully. Go out while you’re still on top, not when you’re no longer in control of events.”
Source: Shift: Inside Nissan's Historic Revival
“When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.”
“When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are completely dead. They die long before you do. It's astonishing to consider all the things from your past that used to happen all the time but (a) never happen anymore, and (b) never even cross your mind. It's almost like those things didn't happen. Or maybe it seems like they just happened to someone else. To someone you don't really know. To someone you just hung out with for one night, and now you can't even remember her name.”
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“When you start thinking everyone is trying to steal from you, you deprive yourself of so much.”
Source: The Tidelings of Dras Sayve
“When you start thinking you're a big shot, you wash more feet.”
“When you start to accept responsibility for the results you get in life, you also take back the power to change your future outcome.”
Source: Let's Do This! 100 Powerful Messages to Help You Take Action
“When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.”
“When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love.”
“When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.”
“When you start to become famous, you can hop into any kind of field just because of the name you have and the credentials you have.”
“when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.”
Source: Wait for the Dawn
“When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.”
“When you start to build self-worth and redeem your magnificence, the fears go away... you void your fears via your realization of your own self-worth.”
“When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.”
Source: Beating the Street
“When you start to crack open, don't waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift.”
“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.”
“When you start to die, don't.”
“When you start to do research into gorillas or any kind of apes, if you're going to play them, that's one of the biggest misconceptions. And when I did Kong, you're not doing gorilla movements, you're not doing ape movements, you're looking for a personality. It's like saying okay I'm going to do human movements.”
“When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.”
“When you start to feel like things should have been better this year, remember the mountains and valleys that got you here. They are not accidents, and those moments weren't in vain. You are not the same. You have grown and you are growing. You are breathing, you are living, you are wrapped in endless, boundless grace. And things will get better. There is more to you than yesterday.”
“When you start to find the world ordinary and no longer see magic in the beauties of nature, it means that the child in you and the romance inside your soul are dead!”
“When you start to get influenced by your family, you feel love for someone else and your heart starts to move away from yourself.”
“When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw yourself into a really potentially dangerous situation.”
“When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.”
“When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.”
“When you start to lose your temper, remember: There's nothing manly about rage. It's courtesy and kindness that define a human being- and a man. That's who possesses strength and nerves and guts, not the angry whiners.”
“When you start to meditate, if you stick with it, you will see tremendous changes in your life and state of mind.”
“When you start to meet with ordinary people you understand that a Russian person, really any person from Russia, a Tatar, a Mordvin, a Chechen, a Dagestani, they are very open people, even a little naive. But there's one defining trait that probably all peoples have, although it comes out especially strongly in us. That's a drive toward fairness. It's one of the dominating, I think, traits in the mentality of a person from Russia, a Russian person.”
“When you start to normalize bad things. Bad things will start to normalize themselves happening to you. Be careful of what do you normalize in life.”
“When you start to realize life isn't fair, what do you do: curl up and die or fight every second of the way?”
“When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person,not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.”
Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You
“When you start to really travel and you get to these abstract like places in the world, you would see certain people's names. It seemed like we could go anywhere. Like when we went to Afghanistan, you'd see in the dressing room Run DMC's name. Certain rappers are like journey men.”
“When you start to rewrite the story of not-mattering, you start to find a new center. You remove yourself from other people’s mirrors and begin speaking more fully from your own experience, your own knowing place. You become better able to attach to your pride and more readily step over all the despites. It doesn’t remove the obstacles, but I’ve found that it helps to shrink them. It helps you to count your victories, even the small ones, and know that you’re doing okay.”
Source: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
“When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.”
“When you start to see things that are well-executed you'll watch a lot of stuff in 3D and see the same scene again in 2D and realize, "Oh, my god, it's like you turned the color off or the sound off." Once you get used to it, I think audiences and the public will want more of it.”
“When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They need to be funny.”
“When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.”
“When you start to think of yourself bigger than everyone else, it is not too long before fate brings you down to the ground.”
“When you start to treat the light weights like heavy weights, the heavy weights will go up a lot easier.”