W Quotes
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“We have millions of unemployed and cannot afford any more immigration. Where are they supposed to live? It is not viable.”
“We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“We have mirror neurons that mirror other human beings. In other words, if I'm smiling it tends to make other people with me smile also. Whether I'm happy or lonely, I will tend to have happy or lonely friends. The same thing happens with actions; if I make an act of generosity it tends to be passed on down through society. So I see small groups as being very important in having an effect on large groups.”
“We have mirrorballs in the middle of a dance floor, because they reflect light. They are broken a million times, and that's what makes them so shiny. We have people like that in society, too. They hang there, and every time they break, it entertains us; and when you shine a light on them, it's this glittering, fantastic thing. But then a lot of the time, when the spotlight isn't on them, they're just there, up on a pedestal, but nobody's watching them.”
“We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.”
Source: Collected Novels Volume Four
“We have missiles - nuclear missiles - on hair-trigger alert. We should be in the business of nuclear disarmament right now, which neither of these candidates [Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton] are talking about.”
“We have mistaken information for wisdom, connectivity for connection, and stimulation for aliveness. They are not the same things. They have never been the same things.”
Source: The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out
“We have misunderstood our confusion when we think there is an answer to it. The confusion is not a result of questions that are too hard, but rather a questioner who is disintegrating. Confusion is the introduction to true intelligence.”
“We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.”
Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“We have moments of such clarity, of such appreciation of the incredible web of interconnected events that carry us from breath to breath, day to day, as long as we live-and the next moment we fret about how much we weigh. Or who we didn't send a Valentine. Or who forgot to compliment the dinner. Or whatever.”
Source: Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness
“We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.”
“We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.”
“We have more brilliant fantasy novels than brilliant fantasy movies. Movies and TV are done by committee. But with a novel, it's really just one person running the show. That allows for a clarity and unity of vision that's pretty unique, artistically.”
“We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.”
“We have more choice than ever before, but no matter what we choose, we have lost the ability to really pay attention to it.”
Source: Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow By Yuval Noah Harari & How We Got to Now Six Innovations that Made the Modern World By Steven Johnson 2 Books Collection Set
“We have more coaches on the sidelines than we have players on the field.”
“We have more control than most of us realize. Each day is filled with thousands of opportunities to change the story of our lives.”
Source: Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
“We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought... We know much more about movement than we do about anger, love, envy or even thought. It is relatively easy to learn to recognize the quality of movement than the quality of other factors.”
“We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create”
Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
“We have more families at risk with the death penalty. It targets the voiceless, the poor, people of color. And so it's important just to understand what your government is doing and how much they are spending.”
“We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s, Communists, for example, could publish their magazine. The KKK published their own books. But face it, the mass media is controlled by money.”
“We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.”
“We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the only way you can deal with it, I suppose, is to make fun of it. I would rather watch Comedy Central for the news than I'd like to watch any other program on television. Maybe that shows you the state of affairs.”
“We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.”
“We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.”
“We have more opportunity than we have us.”
“We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.”
“We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art; but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning.”
Source: Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c
“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.”
“We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.”
Source: How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
“We have more space and less time. And the love we had for our whole neighborhood now only fits into this wood-frame house in the middle of a quiet block. We don't know the people who live across the street or on either side of us.”
Source: Pride
“We have more success if we think of a project as a group effort, find partners and build a coalition. There is always strenght in numbers.”
Source: The Design Activist's Handbook: How to Change the World (Or at Least Your Part of It) with Socially Conscious Design
“We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice.”
Source: Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society
“We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington.”
“We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it's very easy for science to make a substitute material. There's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.”
“we have more than opiates for pain, and we have more than anti-anxiety medication to combat fear and distress. We have the “who” and “what” we see before we die, which is perhaps the greatest comfort to the dying.”
Source: Visions, Trips, and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See Before You Die
“We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.”
“We have more than we use.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies." Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn't abandon an untenable position.”
Source: The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
“We have more to learn from animals than animals have to learn from us.”
“We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.”
“We have more ways than ever to escape our experiences, yet more than ever the world needs us to be present and care. When we understand and soothe unrest, we can be present in moments of vulnerability and grow.”
Source: Embracing Unrest: Harness Vulnerability to Tame Anxiety and Spark Growth
“We have most to learn from those who are different from us”
Source: Alle sondaars welkom: Gedagtes oor God en die grense van mense
“We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.”
“We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.”
Source: Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World
“We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.”
“We have Mr. Putin in Russia. And he appears to be a popular president of Russia. And I don't think it's the business of the National Endowment for Democracy or American diplomats or American foreign policy to try to change the nature of that government.”
“We have much better policies than the Democrats do.”