Y Quotes
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“You can watch a beautiful tree for years, but you can watch a beautiful wave for a few seconds! When you see something beautiful that will disappear very quickly, you experience happiness and sadness almost simultaneously!”
“You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.”
“You can watch an episode of Friends or an episode of Law & Order and just drop in, but you're not going to in the middle of Season 4, Episode 5 of Lost. It's like picking up a Harry Potter book and flipping to a chapter. You have to read it from beginning to end.”
“You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.”
“You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands. The stands America's taken are the reason that you can.”
“You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.”
“You can wear a flimsy fabric face mask and I will be wearing the full face respirator.”
“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”
“You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.”
“You can wear black in any moment of the day, no matter your age. You can wear black with almost any occasion. A black dress is essential for every woman.”
“You can wear one thing one day and go the other end of the spectrum the other day. There are no rules and such, so long as you're comfortable and you have fun and are yourself.”
“You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.”
“You can wear them with anything. It's the person and the way that they wear it that makes it different. I have been designing white shirts forever, but I don't get tired of it.”
“You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.”
“You can wear your hair long or wear a beard because you want to show that you are interested in thought, in psychological endeavors rather than appearance.”
“You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.”
Source: Vanishing Acts
“You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.”
“You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.”
“You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.”
“You can win as long as you chose your battles. You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor. So what I've learned is to just basically not buckle - not be belligerent, not be angry, not throw fits, but just not buckle.”
“you can win big battles by winning small victories at a time”
“you can win big battles with winning one small victory at a time”
“You can win in multiple ways - A manager
should never restrict himself when it comes to exploring possibilities.”
Source: No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
“You can win the argument or you can win the person but you can’t win both.”
“You can win the Champions League in the worst season.”
“You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.”
Source: Banksy: wall and piece
“You can win the victories you seek, Jorg. But only if you find better reasons to want them.”
“You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware of what's happening to your mind and your body when you're playing, you'll never be able to be the very best you can be.”
“You can win war without fighting and you must not fight a war in order to win. The battle is of the Lord.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.”
“You can win with the best product, the best price, or the best experience.”
“You can win, it'll just cost you some money.”
“You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.”
“You can wipe the tears in your eyes not the torture in your heart.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t ever forget it.”
Source: Good Bones and Simple Murders
“You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of the race. I've always felt these really big races aren't necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They're won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day.”
“You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.”
“You can work alone for years, it’s actually the only way to work if truth be told; but there always comes a moment when you feel the need to show your work to the world, less to receive its judgement than to reassure yourself about the existence of this work, or even of your own existence, for in a social species individuality is little more than a short piece of fiction.”
Source: La carte et le territoire
“You can work as hard as you like, and plan as carefully as you want, but there are moments when it’s just about a hunch, about trusting your instincts, or about fate.”
Source: Me
“You can work for joy and you can work for money. Ideally, in the real world, if you can do work which you love doing, which also earns you money to pay your bills, then you are doing great. But if you are doing work that you loathe, and are doing it only for the money, then chances are you will be very, very unhappy. And if you are doing stuff that you love doing but are not earning any money from what you do, then while the going may be tough in a material sense, you will still be, interestingly, very, very happy! So, instead of complaining about your Life, ask yourself which category do you belong to. And learn to make an informed choice or be content with what you are doing – and having!”
“You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.”
“You can work hard your entire life and still receive crumbs if the mind is not accepting of the wealth you seek. A well-trained mind transforms everything.”
“You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You can't control fate.”
“You can work it out by Fractions or by simple Rule of Three,
But the way of Tweedle-dum is not the way of Tweedle-dee.
You can twist it, you can turn it, you can plait it till you drop,
But the way of Pilly Winky’s not the way of Winkie Pop!”
Source: The Jungle Book / FREE: Around the World in Eighty Days
“You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.”
“You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.”
Source: Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
“You can work on a movie for years, and you won't know until you show it to an audience for the first time if it makes any sense to them at all, if they're touched, if they find it funny, so it's endlessly exciting, because failure is just right there all the time, and your chances of success don't rise that much based on the fact that you succeeded last time.”
“You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!”
“You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.”