W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.”
“When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.”
“When you take a modest loan from a bank, the bank owns you. If it is a massive loan, you own the bank.”
“When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself.”
Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy
“When you take a person out of the world, you don't just take them, do you? You take everything they were, too.”
Source: Godsgrave
“When you take a photo at 1/1000 of a second, the moment can become an eternal fact, an eternal moment. So we have a philosophical problem of objectivity and subjectivity.”
“When you take a picture of a sunset and it doesn’t look good you don’t say, ‘Eww the sky is ugly.’ You know it is the camera that can’t capture the beauty of the sunset.
Yet when you take a selfie and it doesn’t look good you very quickly say, ‘Eww, I’m ugly,’ when in fact it is the camera that can’t capture your beauty.”
Source: The Purpose Ladder
“When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it.”
“When you take a picture you haven't a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a clue but you don't really know. There are too many possibilities. Part of the game is how many balls you can juggle. It is to me. When you are 12 you can juggle two. Maybe when you are 50 you can juggle five. That is an interesting concept to me: how much I can put in and still make it pull together?”
“When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.”
“When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.”
“When you take a proactive approach to your personal and professional life, you will be prepared to embrace challenges, take risks, and learn from your mistakes. You will focus on what you can control to achieve your goals rather than waiting for things to happen to you. This, in turn, can lead to greater success, fulfilment, and happiness in life.”
“When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.”
“When you take a stand against injustice inflicted upon innocent people, there will be those who will hate you for it.”
“When you take a stand be sure you have a leg to stand on .”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.”
“When you take a thoughtful decision stick by it. Don’t change with the changing seasons.”
“When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.”
“When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.”
“When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you're not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That's football. That's why everybody plays it.”
“When you take action on ideas and tactics you will begin to uncover great potential and begin to unleash it for the betterment of yourself, your organization and the world.”
“When you take action, particularly bold action, the boundaries of what you believe to be possible (your belief system) expand. Which, in turn, gives you the capacity to consider new ideas, new possibilities, and new concepts that you previously thought to be impossible.”
“When you take all these voices together, the dimensions of the jail are no trifling matter. But that is to be expected. The crimes with which they are charged—the crime of having lost one’s face, the crime of shutting off the roadway to others, the crime of having lost understanding of others’ agonies and joys, the crime of having lost the fear and joy of discovering unknown things in others, the crime of having forgotten one’s duty to create for others, the crime of having lost a music heard together—these are crimes which express contemporary human relations, and thus the whole world assumes the form of a single penal colony. Even so, the anguish at my being a prisoner remains unchanged.”
Source: The Face of Another
“When you take an energetic song and add it to one of the most energetic live performance set's you get pure mayhem...which is what the fans want to see!”
“When you take away a woman’s right to control her own body, you take away her very essence. But reclaiming that power is a revolution only she can lead”
Source: Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled
“When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife's economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together.”
“When you take away the violence from the market, even it starts shifting into something else - not exactly paradise, but it doesn't become the market in the way we see it now.”
“When you take breaks, your diffuse mode is still working away in the background.”
Source: A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
“When you take care of an employee's body
you take care of his mind.
When you take care of an employee's mind
you take care of his heart.
When you take care of an employee's heart
you take care of his soul.
When you take care of an employee's soul
you take care of his life.
When you take care of the lower class
you take care of the working class.
When you take care of the working class
you take care of the middle class.
When you take care of the middle class
you take care of the upper class.
When you take care of the upper class
you take care of all the classes.
When you take care of employees
you take care of capital.
When you take care of capital
you take care of companies.
When you take care of companies
you take care of economies.
When you take care of economies
you take care of young people.
When you take care of children
you take care of families.
When you take care of families
you take care of neighborhoods.
When you take care of neighborhoods
you take care of communities.
When you take care of communities
you take care of nations.”
“When you take care of the well you take care of the water.”
“When you take care of your appearance and do exercise, you feel more attractive and this boosts your self-steam and confidence. You feel amazing and enjoy your single life because you can flirt and have fun while feeling noticed and admired.”
Source: The Art of Loving Intelligently:Discover the Five Love Myths Hurting Women in America
“When you take care of your health, everything else falls into place!”
Source: Turn Heads at Any Age: Simple Anti-Aging and Weight Loss Solutions to Help You Feel and Look Fabulous
“When you take care of your mind,
you take care of your heart.
When you take care of your heart,
you take care of your soul.
When you take care of your soul,
you take care of your life.
When you take care of your thoughts,
you take care of your character.
When you take care of your character,
you take care of your actions.
When you take care of your actions,
you take care of your destiny.”
“When you take care of yourself, you’re better able to take care of others.”
Source: Panic Proof: The New Holistic Solution to End Your Anxiety Forever
“When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree on that that's a more toxic and contentious issue, granting full amnesty.”
“When you take control of your attitude, you take control of your life.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.”
“When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.”
“When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.”
Source: Observations: Poems
“When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.”
“When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another.”
“When you take on a project, you have to be certain that you can make the best version of whatever it is youre given.”
“When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever.”
“When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.”
“When you take on a TV show, you give trust to people that you really just met.”
“When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge.”
“When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about the book [Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho] and wanting it to be the film about the making of this movie [Psycho]. But that's been done. That's been done in the book, and Stephen Rebello himself was like, "I want a movie which is an entertainment for the audience." So we made the conscious decision.”
“When you take on the idea of playing someone like Jimmy Bulger, it's a radically different process because you're going into make-up. The only way you can do it is to come out of make-up looking like the guy. If you don't look like the guy, it's going to bug you, all day.”
“When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside.”