W Quotes
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“We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.”
“We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.”
“We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.”
Source: The essence of Alan Watts
“We tend to remember our mistakes more than other actions because they leave us feeling uncomfortable. And because we don’t like feeling that way, we are less likely to repeat our mistakes. The same can also be said for taking chances and putting aside our fears.”
“We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.”
“We tend to rush toward the complex when trying to solve a daunting problem, but in this case, simplicity wins. Better buildings, responsible energy use and renewable energy choices are all we need to tackle both energy independence and climate change.”
“We tend to search for happiness and love forgetting that both can be found when we stop searching for sadness and hate.”
“We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.”
Source: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
“We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.”
“We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.”
“We tend to see our lives from the prisms of others. That explains why we stop living and constantly race against our best interests. The ensuing frustration impacts negatively on us and others within our orbits. Life is as beautiful as the rose of contentment and as ugly as the thorn of inordinate ambition. Those who can think will thank. Those who thank live. Stop the rat race. Roll out the drums. Be thankful.”
“We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.”
“We tend to seek closure and completeness.”
Source: No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
“We tend to seek greatness in our thinking, thus excellence walk right past those solutions to our most pressing problems, those most relevant and most near.
Like a man walking past a beggar, sure in his belief that he has no time.
Vicinity of foundations are mighty important.”
“We tend to seek greatness in our thinking, thus excellence walsk right past those solutions to our most pressing problems, those most relevant and most near.
Like a man walking past a beggar, sure in his belief that he has no time.
Vicinity of foundations are mighty important.”
“We tend to Seek Happiness when Happiness is actually a Choice”
“We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.”
“We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions.”
Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“We tend to speak of sin in very personal and individual terms. Jeremiah does not downplay that, but he also sees how a whole society can be bound up in the tentacles of sin, in the assumptions that everybody around you makes, about how it becomes easier to sin than not to, and how we can become so confused and contradictory in our reactions, when sin is pointed out.”
“we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn”
“We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.”
“We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.”
“We tend to take things for granted that we've had for long periods of time. Take a moment to appreciate the person in your life. Realize why you are with them. Take a moment with them and really be in that moment completely.”
“We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.”
“We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.”
Source: Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism
“We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength”
“We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.”
Source: The Cornish Trilogy
“We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.”
“We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.”
“We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding up of oneself to God. Heart, soul, and mind were the encompassing words of Christ in describing the first commandment, which is constantly, not periodically, operative (see Matt. 22:37). If kept, then our performances will, in turn, be fully consecrated for the lasting welfare of our souls (see 2 Ne. 32:9).”
“We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.”
Source: What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger
“We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.”
“We tend to think of future inventions and discoveries, but in reality, these things already exist in the knowledge bank of the universe.”
“We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.”
“We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.”
“We tend to think of imagination and foresight like we are prone to think of life (sometimes) -- as an inscrutable flash of something from the outside that magically takes us over some large boundary in one atomic step. We even call it a flash (of insight), a eureka moment, a light bulb in our heads that suddenly turns on. But if you reflect on this phenomenon for a moment, you know you don't go suddenly from a blank mind to a fully formed solution. You were already thinking about the problem, and other near solutions that don't work, when suddenly you see a new connection that enables you to reuse familiar things on a novel way. Insight comes in small increments, leveraging what was already there.”
Source: The Meaning(s) of Life: A Human's Guide to the Biology of Souls
“We tend to think of innovation as difficult, but with the creative use of The 80/20 Principle innovation can be both easy and fun!”
“We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.”
“We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real sense, memories are tied to and describe the present. Formed in an idiosyncratic way when they happened, they're also true to the moment of recall, including how you feel, all you've experienced, and new values, passions, and vulnerability. One never steps into the same stream of consciousness twice.”
Source: An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
“We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an adult, you're supposed to manage, you're supposed to get over it, you're supposed to go on with your life, and you feel like a lost child.”
“We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.”
“We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.”
“We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.”
“We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure.”
Source: Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
“We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.”
“We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We're just always thinking: how do we want to make content developers' lives better and users' lives a lot better? With Big Picture Mode, we're trying to answer the question: 'How can we maximize a content developers' investment?'”
“We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.”
Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.”
“We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.”