I Quotes
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“If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.”
“If I hold you with my emotions,
you'll become a wished-for companion.”
“If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.”
“If I hope to survive, I have to acknowledge the natural selection that goes on when film stocks and cameras are eliminated from the world. And film viewers won't want to watch the same thing over and over again from me.”
“If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.”
“If I hurt somebody's feelings, I go right to them and talk to them and explain what happens. Sometimes I'm mad at myself because I left a pitch in the middle. It's big when you leave a pitch in the middle. When I make that mistake, it's frustrating for me. I have to think about what I did wrong and go to the next step.”
“If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.”
“If I hurt you, you can kill me. (Syn)”
“If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don't like this kiss-and-forget.'
'But I don't want to argue. I think it's wonderful that we can kiss and forget, and when we can't it'll be time to argue.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.”
“If I imagine, I see. What more do I do when I travel? Only extreme poverty of the imagination justifies having to travel to feel.”
“If I immerse myself in the scriptures...I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more. I find it easier to abide their counsel.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“If I improve just a little bit every day, I'm a happier person”
“If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into Rue Mimosas, looking for the house of Rene Magritte. It was August, 1965. I was 33 years old and about to meet the man whose profound and witty surrealist paintings had contradicted my assumptions about photography.”
“if I inflict wounds, I heal them.”
“If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“If I interview people, I would get to know many lives and experiences that I haven't been through myself.”
“If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.”
“If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.”
“If I judged anybody I wouldn't have any friends.”
“If I jump out of bed without hugging my husband, that creates stress between us.”
“If I jumped into the cliché, everybody will have seen it before. If I stick to my ignorance a little bit, maybe, maybe it will turn out different. Or maybe a slightly new aspect to a comic book villain.”
“If I just 'AM'..Does it matter if I am a Man or a Woman..
If I be 'LOVE'..Does it matter who is at the other end...
If I choose 'LIFE'..Does it matter if it's mine or another's..”
Source: Nucleus - Power Women: Lead from the Core
“If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.”
“If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.”
“If I just do Molly's book, it'll go uncredited. No one will know that I worked on it. It'll do nothing for me or my career. I may as well have not written anything at all."
"But is that what this is all about for you? You and your career? Is that why you became a writer, so that people would know who you are? Or was it to do work that matters?"
This was spilling over into the same debate that they'd had on their first date. Gabe was comfortable in the shadows, setting his ego aside and staying out of the limelight. But was Gabe doing the honorable thing or the cowardly thing? What kind of career could you have--- as either a chef or a writer--- if nobody knew who you were? Isabella wasn't sure that she wanted to give up her shot at the limelight just yet.
"You can be a well-known writer who does good, meaningful work... They're not mutually exclusive," countered Isabella.
"Is it good, meaningful work when you're betraying someone who trusts you? To expose all of their secrets and stories from their private life?"
That one stung.
"It's not a betrayal when you're telling the truth," argued Isabella, repositioning herself to face Gabe.
"If someone lets you into their world," said Gabe, rolling to face her, "isn't there a presumption of privacy? I can't imagine writing a tell-all about any of the chefs that I've worked for, even when the chef was shitty. Nobody in my industry would ever do that."
"Of course they would! Haven't you ever seen The Bear?"
"The Bear's a TV show."
"But it started as a book."
"I'm pretty sure it didn't."
"The point is," said a flustered Isabella, getting out of bed, "the right choice will be obvious to me when it's time."
She said it with such conviction she almost believed it herself.
"The right choice is obvious to me now.”
Source: Food Person
“If I just gave you a piece of paper with the lyrics written down on it, it would mean something to you. It would tell you a story.”
“If I just go out and play, the rest will take care of itself. That's what my parents taught me. They haven't been wrong yet.”
“If I just got up in the morning and had no place to go and was retired or something, I would be sitting there and be thinking, "Gee, what is the purpose of life? Why are we all finite? Why do we get old and die? Is there nothing out there? Why is it so tragic? Why do our loved ones perish? Why do we generate?" Who wants to think about that stuff?”
“If I just have one dance... even if it's by myself, I'll be happy. I just want to remember what it's like to be free, to spin round and round under the moonlight.”
Source: So This is Love
“If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there. I've begun to think we sit far more than we're supposed to." He smiled. "Why else would we have feet?”
“If I just know in my gut that a film is going to work, I'll fight to the death over it, and I convince myself. When a movie is purely a money job, the film doesn't have the same sort of intensity, and the audience almost senses it, at least that's the way I perceive it. So, yeah, the idea is to do something that you truly, truly believe in.”
“If I just predicted something about you… it means that you are simple as that.”
“If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.”
“If I just stuck to pot I might have found out what a drag being an aging hipster actually was.”
“If I just take an hour yoga class, I will come out differently than I went in.”
“If I just think about it a bit more, if I really dwell on this and maybe put some sad music on then somehow I’ll get to solve something on my own that actually involves two people.”
“If I just think of the churches in my little town here because I've been to every one of them, there are 27, there aren't that many where you walk in and say wow, people are excited about their faith. A lot of them, it's just what you do on Sunday at 10:00 or 11:00 and that's not true in other countries. In some other countries, it's still a very lively, vibrant experience.”
“If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.”
“If I keep breathing, then I have to keep living, and if I keep living, then I have to keep hurting, and I can't - not like this.”
Source: Forbidden
“If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to get away with it. I'm going to have to fix it, change it, whatever it is, to something that I'm comfortable with, that doesn't make me itch when I look at it.”
“If I keep going outside, I get distracted - and all these lunches and things I get invited to, I just don't care. I just want to make the work. New York is very distracting.”
“If I keep grinning maybe my inoperable colon cancer won't hurt so much.”
“If I keep moving, maybe I won't feel this sadness.”
Source: Diana in Love
“If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.”
“If I keep my promises to the Lord, He will always keep His promises to me. He [will] always fulfill His end of the bargain—and much, much more—if I fulfill mine.”
“If I keep myself busy I don't know how lonely I am. I only know how busy I am.”
“If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my desk and involves something akin to surrounding it with a whole system of Geiger counters, I can freeze it in such a way that it stops emitting radiation.
Although Turing first suggested the idea as a theoretical construct, it turns out that it is not just mathematical fiction. Experiments in the last decade have demonstrated the real possibility of using observation to inhibit the progress of a quantum system.”
Source: The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
“If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.”
“If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.”
Source: Duma Key: A Novel