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 to treat yourself better, you’ll be happier, and your life will automatically get better.”
Source: Our Nepal, Our Pride
“When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.”
“When you start to write, things begin to come into focus in a way they don't when you're not writing. It's a very good way to find out how much you don't know because you learn specifically what you need to know that you don't know at the moment by writing.”
“When you start training camp, you're building the tools necessary to win a championship. You have to have the patience.”
“When you start trying to figure out what you're the best at, that's when you become delusional because you start to believe that. [you're the best] I'd rather continue to ride that mule than to ride the cocky horse. You see people spin out of control like that all the time. Those are the most tragic stories – the most gifted people who start to believe that it's really ALL THEM. It's not all you. It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the KITE – it's the AIR.”
“When you start understanding the bigger picture the world begins proceeding to make a whole lot better sense.”
“When you start understanding the bigger picture, the world begins to make a whole lot better sense.”
Source: The Unhappy Heiress
“When you start using more expensive cameras, everything around it gets more expensive, which is something we hadn't necessarily taken into account beforehand. Your lighting package gets way more expensive, and then coloring it is going to be more expensive. So I think all of that will essentially be cushioning our camera package. Budgets beget budgets, and expenses beget expenses.”
“When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.”
Source: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It
“When you start using the word "Mandatory" on human beings, You defeat the purpose of anything, Even a goat will not eat grass by the use of Force.”
“When you start viewing another person’s Life and wonder “how’s it that they are having a good time when I am not?”, well then, you have invited suffering into your own Life! Be sure…1. You don’t know their story and don’t quite know if they are really having a ‘good’ time and 2. It’s their Life and another person’s Life is none of your business! Seriously. So, to be happy, stop comparing yourself with others. Period.”
“When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?”
Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
“When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.”
“When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.”
“When you start with a use case, these sorts of dialogs emerge. I would say, "What if..." to you. What if, as you suggest, some team of fringe engineers/developers has eclipsed the industry's achievements at large? History has shown us that breakthroughs often occur at the edges and include radical paradigm shifts.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.”
“When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.”
“When you start with nothing, you learn to appreciate everything.”
“When you start with why, which decision you make becomes very easy. It is so hard to do when you may suffer a short term loss or you may lose out on some short term gain. But in the long run it's way more powerful and way more stable.”
“When you start witnessing something without thought, there is no obstruction for absorbing the knowledge about that thing because there is no thought. It's complete absorption which takes place. And then it manifests. This is how the Divine Power works within us. So with our gravity, what we do is to touch that depth within us, which can carry the Divine Power and manifest.”
“When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.”
“When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.”
“When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.”
“When you start worrying about who you're going to play, it could bite you. Because it really shouldn't matter.”
“When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.”
“When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.”
“When you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something is interesting, it forces you to ask yourself, "Well, why is this interesting?"”
“When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other roads become available that they can go down. And a lot of writers have roadblocks in front of those roads: they won’t allow their characters to go down those roads... I’ve never put any roadblocks on any of these paths. My characters can go wherever they would naturally go, and I’ll follow them.”
“When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.”
“When you start your journey towards your target, walk and then rest for a while and then walk again and then rest for a while again and then walk again! Rule out the option of failure in your mind! Leave only one option available: To reach your target!”
“When you start your meditation, picture a beautiful blue sky without any clouds in it. Feel that your body is growing lighter. Visualize that you are floating in the sky and that all tension, fatigue, worry and problems have left you.”
“When you start, it's not to do with the material so much. It's more to do with how you can control a crowd and make friends with an audience and sell your brand of humor.”
“When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the story takes a turn that you don't expect ... With me that happens a lot because I don't outline, I just have a vague notion. So it's always felt like less of a made thing and more of a found thing. That's exciting. That's a thrill.”
“When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.”
“When you started the journey of this life, you learned your mother tongue so as to communicate with the external world. Even before that you knew a language that you have been using since eternity. It’s your Divine-mother tongue: Silence. Use it to communicate with the divine.”
“When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.”
Source: White Oleander
“When you stay in the moment, you have all the time in the world, and whatever needs to be done will be completed in the exact right time.”
“When you stay in touch with the wonder-working God through prayer, you will experience wonders.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“When you stay in your lane, walk at your own comfortable pace, and let them overtake you without a frown on your face - that’s the beginning of your transformation, and you will play an important role in the spiritual awakening.”
“When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world and its problems are impossibly daunting. But when you go out and put yourself in real relation to real people, or even just real animals, there’s a very real danger that you might end up loving some of them. And who knows what might happen to you then?”
“When you stay present with your children, that’s where abundance is. And when you stay out of their business, that’s where everything you deserve in life is. When you’re in presence, there’s no story, and you are abundance. And you come to trust that space so often that you just eventually hang out as that, because there is nothing that can move you out of it, not even a perceived child or a perceived anything.”
Source: Question Your Thinking, Change the World
“When you stay silent, you listen. When you listen, you learn. When you learn, you know. When you know, you can understand. And when you understand, you may forgive.”
Source: A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms
“When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.”
“When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.”
“When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.”
“When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.”
Source: Golem in the Gears
“When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.”
“When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.”
Source: Bone Man's Daughters
“When you step away from the screen, you open the door to the richness of real life.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.”