W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or old or generic. And so you realize that the role of architecture is fundamental.”
“When you want to do something that isn’t the ‘norm’ you will be made to feel like you have a problem and if you hear it often enough then you start to believe it too.”
Source: Unladylike: A Memoir
“When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.”
“When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself) emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.”
Source: How High Can You Bounce?: Turn Setbacks Into Comebacks
“When you want to feel rich... visit your friends.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“When you want to flex yourself, you have to find a place with enough wing room to let you stretch to your fullest. - The Malwatch”
“When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.”
“When you want to fully isolate yourself from the madnesses of the people, find a wooden cottage in the middle of nowhere by the side of high mountains! Over there, alongside the fresh winds, the mysterious sounds and the pleasant scents, you will find the most precious thing: Freedom!”
“When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.”
Source: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
“When you want to get married, ask the universe for a man who has every quality money cannot buy. Then go about to create your own prosperity.”
“when you want to go up that mountain and everyone else around you is telling you that is too hard, and you’ll never going to make it, please listen to that small voice inside your heart and one day you will reach the mountain top”
“When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being pointless.”
“When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“When you want to help people, you don’t need no language – it’ll all be written on your face.”
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
Source: The Thomas Sowell Reader
“When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. I just want to get at it slowly, but carefully and thoroughly, with the same attitude I remember was present just before I found that sheared pin. It was that attitude that found it, nothing else.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
Source: Zero History
“When you want to know what Penn State is, and when you want to know what 'We Are' means, come to THON.”
“When you want to learn about something, what is the first thing you do... you go to the internet.”
“When you want to make a beginning of a good deed, first prepare for temptations, which will come to you, and don't doubt the truth of that which you do for God.”
“When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain.”
“When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don't just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical effects.I think the life is the same.”
“When you want to marry a woman, do not bank on the looks, few years' time, she will look like her mother and couple more years she will look like her grandmother. Marry the Heart and not the looks”
“When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.”
“When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite.You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.”
“When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.”
Source: Collected letters: 1926-1950
“When you want to read the book, come read the book. When you want to come talk to me and be my friend, come talk to me.”
“When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!”
“When you want to see great art look deep into nature. You will see the grass, clouds, plants, flowers, trees, mountains, valleys, rivers and the seas. You will see art that will leave you speechless! And this art is created by nature.”
“When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.”
“When you want to study a larger group of people, surveys become a good option.”
Source: Market Research Like a Pro
“When you want to succeed in Real Estate, you have to breath it..you have to want it as much as air”
“When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed as invincible, and kill them. You want to destroy the morale first. Once the people's resolve is gone and everyone is scared for their own skin, the city is yours.”
“When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.”
“When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.”
Source: Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics
“When you want to turn around a company, make sure that the solution is coming from the inside.”
“When you want to turn around a company, you want to make sure that the solution is coming from inside.”
“When you want to understand and experience love and happiness in your life, go beyond logic. Learn to drop logic and tune into people and events.”
Source: Souls from Mercury: Chakra Magic: Empowering Relationships
“When you want to walk in a dark street, you want to see the darkness there, not the light! Sometimes you want to walk with the devil, you get scared when you come across an angel!”
“When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.”
“When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group”
“When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.”
“When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.”
“When you want your body to perform at a high level, it's important to make sure you are giving your body quality nutrients.”
“When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.”
“When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.”
“When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.”
“When you waste one hour of your time, you have wasted your life.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?