All Quotes

When you ask people about guys they didn't like because they were aggressive, there's me, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors; not too many names would come up.
‐‐ Pete Rose

When you ask people about what they enjoy doing, time spent with the boss is even worse than time spent cleaning the house. So this suggests that there are a lot of leaders out there who are not doing an adequate job.
‐‐ Tom Rath

When you ask people what affects their wellbeing most, they think of health and wealth.
‐‐ Tom Rath

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

When you ask someone a question and they're slow to respond, don't feel pressure to move the conversation forward. Remaining silent plays to your advantage. Moments of silence make people feel as though they should speak, especially when the ball is in their court. This is a great tool to use in negotiations and other difficult conversations.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'
‐‐ Hari Kondabolu

When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
‐‐ Indra Nooyi

When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.
‐‐ Astro Teller

When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.
‐‐ Ben Feldman

When you audition for something, and you book it, you think, 'Okay, well, I got the job, and now I actually have to show up on set and do it.' So, you show up on set, and you don't know, 'Am I going to get swallowed up by these people?'
‐‐ Brie Larson

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
‐‐ James Whitcomb Riley

When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.
‐‐ Bode Miller

When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely work in our own way and sometimes it's a bit too slow for me, so I like to plan ahead and fill my time up.
‐‐ Peter Hook

When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
‐‐ Ralph Hall

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.
‐‐ Dennis Bergkamp

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.
‐‐ Megan Fox

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.
‐‐ Natalia Vodianova

When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.
‐‐ Audra McDonald

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.
‐‐ Carre Otis

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro

When you become a parent, that's a whole new level of life intruding. Nobody tells you how boring and time-sucking it's going to be! Or how the responsibility feels like an airbag going off in your life.
‐‐ Maria Semple

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'
‐‐ Edward Said

When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
‐‐ Rajneesh

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.
‐‐ Gugu Mbatha-Raw

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas

When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.
‐‐ Joan Blades

When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes.
‐‐ Jose Andres

When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.
‐‐ Charles Stanley

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
‐‐ James Carville

When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.
‐‐ Billy Baldwin

When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies.
‐‐ Mitchel Resnick

When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.
‐‐ Studs Terkel

When you become senile, you won't know it.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.
‐‐ Tom Cruise

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.
‐‐ Lindsey Buckingham

When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.
‐‐ Grace Jones

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.
‐‐ John Coltrane

When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
‐‐ C. K. Williams

When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.
‐‐ Alice Cooper

When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.
‐‐ Brad Meltzer

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
‐‐ Samuel Dash

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.
‐‐ Myles Munroe

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
‐‐ Isaac Bashevis Singer

When you bite off only what you can chew, you're going to disappoint people. Guess what? Not your problem. You're not doing anything wrong.
‐‐ Kris Carr