I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we spent as much time lifting our children as we do criticizing them, how effectively we could help them to see themselves in a more positive light!”
“If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.”
Source: Mortals and Others
“If we spent the majority of our focus just concentrating on our side of the street, not so much on what the next guy is doing, I think I'd get a lot more done - we'd all get a lot more done - and we'd probably have a lot less criticism for everybody else.”
“If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real.”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”
“If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly.”
“If we spread kindness,
Like how we spread gossip,
This world will be a happier place”
“If we spread ourselves too thin, then we will need to pull ourselves together afterwards.”
“If we stand by the eagle, fish will die; if we stand by the fish, eagle will die! This dilemma has been created by the random evolutionary process. There is no goodness, there is no justice and there is no intelligence in here. We are living in a primitive and flawed order.”
“If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.”
Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
“If we stand for nothing we will likely become nothing and subsequently achieve nothing, for nothing can only breed more of itself.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.”
“If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay
any eggs in the basket”
“if we start creating our own lives
the true magic happens”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“If we start creating our own maps, our own world, our own vision, then there's no way for the cultural tyrants to program us. And, that's why they're pushing so hard to get more outrageous.”
“If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble.”
“If we start talking about we and us, just think of how many things can actually take place and change in the world.”
“If we start thinking simply nationally, and we start having policies that try and restrict the benefits only within our borders, and try and implement protectionist measures as a consequence, this will not have the effect we need to have on the global economy. And that's ultimately the global economy that's pulling most of us down, particularly countries like Canada, that aren't the source of these current economic troubles.”
“If we start to dumb down what has been made clear, where does that stop?”
“If we start to think about trust as a public good (like clean air and water), we see that we can all benefit from higher levels of trust in terms of communicating with others, making financial transitions smoother, simplifying contracts, and many other business and social activities. Without constant suspicion, we can get more out of our exchanges with others while spending less time making sure that others will fulfill their promises to us. Yet as the tragedy of commons exemplifies, in the short term it is beneficial for each individual to violate and take advantage of the established trust.
I suspect that most people and companies miss or ignore the fact that trust is an important public resource and that losing it can have long-term negative consequences for everyone involved. It doesn't take much to violate trust. Just a few bad players in the market can spoil it for everyone else.”
Source: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions
“If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.”
“If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far as genetics go, we're almost identical. The composition of the blood, the immune system, the structure of the brain - almost identical.”
“If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents.”
Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation
“If we start worrying whether our nose is too big or too small, we should think, “What if I had no head? - now that would be a problem!” As long as we have life, we should rejoice. If everything doesn't go exactly as we'd like, we can accept it. If we contemplate impermanence deeply, patience and compassion will arise. We will hold less to the apparent truth of our experience, and the mind will become more flexible. Realizing that one day this body will be buried or burned, we will rejoice in every moment we have rather than make ourselves or others unhappy.”
“If we started listening to birds, perhaps we'd get a little quieter (it's hard to listen while making noise) in ways that would benefit both birds and humans. We'd probably be both happier and healthier. But even more interesting, in my view, is that we'd begin to perceive an unseen world of gossip and warfare and love all around us. And if we understood this language, I think we'd make different choices: not to stop building and living, but just to be a little more thoughtful in the way that we live.”
Source: Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness
“If we state that there is something, this statement confirms and proves the existence of something (even if it is not a confirmation or proof of any particular something). Otherwise, there would be no way to state anything if there was not something in the first place. Even if there is nothing but an illusion in our head, it is still the existence of an illusion in our head, which is something.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.”
“If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position… to make all the difference in the world.”
Source: Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight
“If we stay in one place, we will become outdated”
“If we stay in the first-person thought mode, we will NEVER acquire telepathy or develop it as a skill. The first step to acquire telepathic skills is to stop seeing God or the Universe separate from you and others.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not”
“If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We become like mushrooms, living in the dark, with poop up to our chins. If you want to know only what you already know, you're dying. You're saying: Leave me alone; I don't mind this little rathole. It's warm and dry. Really, it's fine.
When nothing new can get in, that's death. When oxygen can't find a way in, you die. But new is scary, and new can be disappointing, and confusing - we had this all figured out, and now we don't.
New is life.”
Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
“If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.”
Source: Wow: The Third Essential Prayer
“If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man's money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.”
“If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better. It does limit art. The conversation wouldn't just be one-sided.”
“If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.”
“If we still advise we shall never do.”
“If we still had gold as our currency, we would now all be filthy rich. Instead, we only have a few really rich people, It is no coincidence that this small group consists of the same families behind the American central banking system. The truth is that the founding of the American Federal Reserve Bank is the greatest systematic looting of wealth the world has ever seen. (...) The likelihood that this crime against humanity happened by chance is close to zero.”
Source: New World Order Exposed: Strategy, tactics and methods of the power elite
“If we stood close to each other, side by side, as true brothers and sisters, then evil would not know how to stand between us.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“If we stop and look over the past and then into the future, we can see that the possibilities are growing greater and greater every day; that we have scarcely begun to reach the proper results from the field we have before us.”
“If we stop being joyful and stop singing, we are caught in a kind of prison. The stars in the sky never build prisons.”
Source: Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems
“If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.”
Source: Casablanca [Screenplay]
“If we stop completely, not just outwardly, but inwardly, we will see that there is no truth to our self-image; it is completely mind-made.”
Source: Awake to What Is: Discovering Peace in the Present Moment
“If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.”
“If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.”
“If we stop for a moment, it is possible to perceive a pattern in our lives; the motivators that have influenced us become more obvious. We are able to see life unfolding from BOTH ENDS AT ONCE, coming into the present moment. But until we have got to a certain point of realization, this is not possible, because everything is still seen as a series of apparent causes and effects.”
“If we stop helping people because we’re afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Let them do evil. I’ll stop them.”
Source: Firefight
“If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.”
“If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.”