W Quotes
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“Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.”
Source: Selected thoughts of Indira Gandhi: a book of quotes
“Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.”
“Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into work units that need to be completed. You gotta turn it into a treatment, a script, a grant application, a bunch of forms to be filled out, a shooting schedule, casting sessions, auditions, shooting, editing, music compositions, the film festival circuit, interviews even. And by the time you've finished the process you're so sick and tired by something that was once very precious to you that you're done with it.”
“Whenever you take an action,Decide by both your brain and heart in equal proportions .Balance them as far as possible.”
“Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.”
“Whenever you take over something that is popular and has a fanatical following that loves it, you're never going to please everyone. The trick is to have enough wherewithal to follow through with what you want to do with it and give it time to evolve.”
“Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.”
“Whenever you talk about a Mike Shanahan offense, you're always going to be talking about his offense.”
“Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it.”
“Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in history henceforth. He was an ambitious man who wanted to make an impact on history, and this is how he did it.”
“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
“Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.”
“Whenever you think that some situation or some person is ruining your life, it’s actually you who are ruining your life. It’s such a simple idea. Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to make go through life. If you just take the attitude that however bad it is in anyway, it’s always your fault and you just fix it as best you can – the so-called “iron prescription”
“Whenever you think that you are getting too big for the people around you, remember all that separates you from the guy sitting next to you is a little piece of gristle in your throat.”
“Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future”
“Whenever you think to scold someone, don't. I repeat don't. The world is already filled with people who make it tough to live, don't be another unkind soul.”
“Whenever you think to tried out to reach somewhere, there is always some evil force came to lay you down every time.”
“Whenever you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right. (Henry Ford)”
“Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be as truthful and specific as we can make it. The minute we think that we're reaching more people and pleasing them, we get general. And audiences sense that and turn away, shun us.”
“Whenever you touch a poem that caresses your soul, breathe it gently for it might be the wind that perfects your life's goal.”
“Whenever you touch topaz, it touches you. It awakens a gentle fire, like wine awakens in grapes. Still unborn, clear wine seeks channels amidst stone, demands words, bestows its secret nourishment, shares out the kiss of human skin. The touch of stone and man in serene peace kindles garlands of fleeting flowers, which then return to prime sources: flesh and stone: contrary elements. (Translation, Beatriz von Eidlitz)”
“Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.”
“Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law in the process.”
“Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with somebody else's money, unless you first take it away from them? The only way you can take it away from them is the threat of force: you have a policeman, tax collector, who comes and takes it from them.”
“Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light.”
“Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all.”
“Whenever you use your time well, you get a step closer to a place of greatness.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.”
“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”
“Whenever you want to know what’s wrong or missing in your inner relationship with the Divine, stop, breathe deeply, and observe how is your relationship with the opposite sex.”
Source: Divine Union
“Whenever you want to make a difference, experience a new kind of change, results and progress, you must choose to confront what others avoid.”
“Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.”
“Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.”
Source: Self-realization
“Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.”
Source: Land Without Thunder
“Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either.”
“Whenever you were in Michael's Jackson presence, I mean, he's the King of Pop and the most recognized face on the planet second only to Muhammad Ali. I was often surprised to find out that he felt he had as much to learn from you as you did from him. So he treated you accordingly. Everyone was a teacher to him. He had something to learn from everybody. If he appreciated your creative artistry, he was that much more into you.”
“Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are. They're supposed to be gigantic explosions and they're just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.”
“Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your book and they all pretty much act and think the same except they have different colored hair.”
“Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.”
“Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues”
Source: The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth
“Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.”
“Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.”
“Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping”
“Whenever you're confronted with a tough work situation, stop for a second and try to honestly answer this question:
Am I approaching this emotionally or am I approaching this professionally?”
“Whenever you're dealing with fantasy, and you're doing vampires or anything that is not too based in reality, and you try to base it in reality, you have so much of a greater chance of sounding hokey.”
“Whenever you're doing film for television and you look at the budget that you have, which is much more constricted than a movie budget, you think, "God, are they going to be able to do what they say they are?"”
“Whenever you're doing two things at once, you're compromising them both.”
“Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.”