W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.”
Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more
“We teach people how to treat us.”
“We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.”
“We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.”
“We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.”
“We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up your cultivation by adding other things.”
Source: Zhuan Falun: The Complete Teachings of Falun Gong
“We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter -- exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place -- the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“We teach through our actions, we inspire through our silence.”
“We teach what we have to learn. It's been an extraordinary journey that I couldn't have done with not only the research participants but the community, the tribe that we've built of people who are also on this journey.”
“We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.”
Source: Be A People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships
“We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.”
“We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.”
Source: Not Like My Mother: Becoming a sane Parent after Growing up in a Crazy family
“We teach what we need to learn.”
Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.”
“We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.”
“We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.”
“We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.”
“We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.”
“We tear ourselves inside out for something the world may love, then base our worth on that.”
“We tediously create calendars filled with empty duties, and then we foolishly let those calendars empty us.”
“We tediously parse the verb all the while ignoring the action demanded of us by the verb.”
“We teleported," Issie finishes. "Like in Star Trek or Harry Potter, sort of. No! Like in Dr. Who in that episode with the Sontarans and the brilliant human boy, or really any Dr. Who ever if you think of the Tardis! Holy canola! That is just the coolest thing ever! Wowie, wow, wow!”
Source: Endure
“We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible.”
“We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door.”
“We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what a hero could be and what the hero's journey as a human being is all about. But unfortunately, I think sometimes those stories too can be very prohibitive and confining.”
“We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.”
“We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”
Source: To Green Angel Tower
“We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.”
“We tell market researchers that we don't mind paying more for green benefits but only a minority of zealots ever really will. A campaign that delivers more widespread green behaviour is going to need to be cleverer that that.”
“We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the darkness of our lives, and they put us into a place where you understand what it is to be human.”
“We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.”
“We tell our portfolio companies that it's really important to be metrics-driven and to track their conversions. It goes back to building that scalable sales model.”
“We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.”
“We tell ourselves a story about what just happened, and our feelings most often follow the story we've constructed. Belinda is being nice. Belinda is being sarcastic. Living beyond individualism requires each of us to take responsibility for our own constructions. "What I make up" is a phrase I ask my clients to use. What I make up is that you're being sarcastic. What I make up is that under your anger, there's hurt. We are not clairvoyant, and neither are we the authoritative voice of objective reality. Keep it subjective; keep it humble. "This was my experience, right or wrong. This is how I recollect it. This is the story I tell myself about it." Here's the trick. For the most part, you cannot violate someone when you speak from the I.”
Source: Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship
“We tell ourselves our own stories, selectively, in order to keep our sense of self intact.”
Source: Journalism: The Democratic Craft
“We tell ourselves stories about war. Of good guys and bad guys. Redemption and sacrifice. Yet the nature of conflict is such that when it is unleashed, it is almost impossible to remain good.”
Source: Inventory: A Memoir
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal.”
Source: Wandering Souls
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.”
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
“We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.”
“We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the slightest inkling of our "job" assignments in this project.”
Source: Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships
“We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination.”
“We tell ourselves that the more time we have at our disposal, the more opportunity we will have of finding greater happiness. But again we are looking to the future, to the times we will create. Again we miss the enjoyment of the present moment.”
“We tell ourselves that we’re in control,
but control is just a lie we believe
to make the inevitable seem less terrifying.”
“We tell ourselves we're here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.”
“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited ... the highest rung of what's possible is far beyond the world you can see ... She found her way through sheer force of will.”
Source: Born A Crime Stories from a South African Childhood / Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race / Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
“We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened.”