W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you try to translate any kind of real-life problem into a neat logical form, you're almost always simplifying it. We need a kind of blend - we need to use not just tools of logic, which are important and valuable - I'm not denying that, but also tools of judgement, and of inductive and abductive reasoning which can also inform.”
“When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.”
Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.”
“When you try your best to do better, you become the best.”
“When you tug at a single thing in the universe, you'll find its attached to everything else.”
“When you tune into your soul essence and are in harmony with the Supreme, you are tapped into your superpowers.”
Source: The Answers Within
“When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.”
“When you turn a blind eye to atrocities, you are complicit in them.”
Source: A Terrible Mercy: 11/17/2014
“When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.”
“When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit in nicely. If you don't feel anything, then maybe you don't belong here.”
Source: Daniel's Esperanza
“When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.”
“When you turn into
A dark, scary night,
Poetry becomes a star
Shining on your chest!”
Source: Garden of Fragility
“When you turn knowledge inward, you can create the
personal insights needed for growth. Looking within myself for answers was much too scary, so it remained a struggle for a long time. I continued looking to others for answers, hoping to fill the void, until it became much scarier when this outlook nearly took my life.”
Source: The Truth in Our Scars: Untangling Trauma to Discover Your Secret Self
“When you turn off the noise of the world, sometimes the earth speaks your name.”
“When you turn on the news, they don't say, "Hey, 2 Million kids went to school safely today...40,000 flights took place without incident." They don't say that.”
“When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.”
“When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.”
“When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.”
“When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.”
“When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950
“When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.”
“When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.”
Source: The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar
“When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.”
“When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart. It changes your life. And that's what happened to me.”
“When you turn your own imagination into an enemy, it is called a conscience.”
“When you turn your problem into passion, your solution becomes success.”
“When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.”
“when you two goddesses command, a man must obey, however angry he may be. Better for him if he does. The man who listens to the gods is listened to by them”
Source: The Iliad
“When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing your brain to, literally, come to its senses.”
“When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.”
Source: Heir to the Empire: Star Wars Legends: The 20th Anniversary Edition
“When you understand dharma, when you see its perfect perfection, shining both in and beyond all things, you will be freed from all misunderstandings.”
“When you understand God’s purpose, you’ll find that you can create from a place of healing instead of pain. Only God can truly fulfill your soul as you build from a healed heart.”
“When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.”
“When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.”
“When you understand just how big the Universe is, you then realize that only idiots fight over an area of space called land.”
“When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“When you understand sex is energetic you know that the act is a merger of energy bodies, it’s a merger of consciousness, it connects you both beyond the body.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“When you understand someone... truly understand someone... you can't help but love them. Therefore... anyone in your life... ANYONE... who you feel less than love for... you have misunderstood.”
“When you understand spiritual law, then you realize that everything you give, good or bad, will in fact come back to you tenfold and that's just the way it is. You give someone flowers and the person you are ultimately giving to is yourself.”
“When you understand that everything happening in the world mirrors something that's happening in yourself, then you can work on the self by working on the external manifestation of that thing in the world. And in fact, there may be no other way. You can sit in meditation for a long time and be blind to huge wounds in yourself, and it's only when you're engaging with the world that the wounds become visible, externalized.”
“When you understand that everything you buy is purchased with a portion of your life, it should make you more careful with the use of money.”
“When you understand that faith is God’s muscle at your disposal, moving mountains doesn’t seem so extraordinary.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“When you understand that God is with you, that changes everything.”
Source: When You Can't Find God: How to Ignite the Power of His Presence
“When you understand that [in reality] the bitter fruit [unfavourable result] is sweet and the sweet fruit [favourable result] is bitter, then you will go to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!”
“When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.”
Source: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“When you understand that there are people that can hear, feel, and interpret your thoughts, one becomes very aware of the mind chatter.”
“When you understand that there is nothing really good or bad in this world in the absolute sense, you focus your attention on balancing everything in the appropriate manner rather than craving for something and discarding the rest. A happy person, like a healthy person, takes a balanced diet of everything that nature presents to him.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you’ve been wasting your time on will no longer interest you. You will even run away from some friends.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“When you understand that what most people really, really want is simply to feel good about themselves, and when you realize that with just a few well-chosen words you can help virtually anyone on the planet instantly achieve this, you begin to realize just how simple life is, how powerful you are, and that love is the key.”