I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.”
“If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?”
“If we talk about the living oracles and want to pay respect to them, how shall we do this? Shall we do it by never reading their words-by paying not attention to that which they say? That is a very poor way of doing.
We ought to listen to their words. When we cannot hear their words, we should read them; for they are the words of the authorized servants of God. I feel that there is a great neglect among us in this respect. --CR, 1897, 38, George Q. Cannon (CR is Reports of the General Conferences of the Church)”
Source: Priesthood and Church Government
“If we talked and wrote only about things we know, how much silence...”
“If we taste the fruit ahead and then reroute, we will never again be satisfied with anything less than what we reached for with our higher self.”
Source: Geboor: Spiritual Fiction
“If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.”
Source: Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success
“If we taught children to speak, they'd never learn.”
“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.”
“If we teach by the Spirit and you listen by the Spirit, some one of us will touch on your circumstance, sending a personal prophetic epistle just to you.”
“If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
“If we tell you even a fraction of our stories, will you still be able to look at us? Or will you only see the scars?”
Source: Gold Shadow
“If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.”
Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story
“If we then ask what sort of mind is likeliest to display the qualities of military genius, experience and observation will both tell us that it is the inquiring rather than the creative mind, the comprehensive rather than the specialized approach, the calm rather than the excitable head to which in war we would choose to entrust...”
Source: On War
“If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.”
Source: HOW TO PRAY: The Importance of Prayer [Second Edition]
“If we think about each other’s feelings, then we’re never alone.”
Source: The Writings of Ron Baratono
“If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.”
“If we think about folk forms, they belong to disenfranchised people, people who have not been allowed access to the poetry of literature or the leisure time that comes with the pursuit of poetry. Instead, this is ceremony. This is a highly charged way to create a sacred space that isn't necessarily about God, but is about human experience at its most profound levels - whether that's love or grief, separation, or homeland. All are altered states.”
“If we think about it... There is no reason for hate in this World if everyone had the most selfish attitude of doing what they love.”
“If we think about it, all great discoveries and paradigm shifts are always stimulated by an external event.”
“If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds of changes or certain kinds of ways of reconceptualizing ourselves.”
“If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.”
“If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.”
“If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the teachers you liked best. And the teacher you liked best was the teacher who cared about the subject she taught.”
“If we think deeply about our childhood, not just about our memories of it but how it actually felt, we realize how differently we experienced the world back then.
Our minds were completely open, and we entertained all kinds of surprising, original ideas. Things that we now take for granted, things as simple as the night sky or our reflection in a mirror, often caused us to wonder. Our heads teemed with questions about the world around us.
Not yet having commanded language, we thought in ways that were preverbal—in images and sensations. When we attended the circus, a sporting event, or a movie, our eyes and ears took in the spectacle with utmost intensity. Colors seemed more vibrant and alive. We had a powerful desire to turn everything around us into a game, to play with circumstances.
Let us call this quality the Original Mind. This mind looked at the world more directly—not through words and received ideas. It was flexible and receptive to new information.
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Masters and those who display a high level of creative energy are simply people who manage to retain a sizeable portion of their childhood spirit despite the pressures and demands of adulthood. This spirit manifests itself in their work and in their ways of thinking. Children are naturally creative. They actively transform everything around them, play with ideas and circumstances, and surprise us with the novel things they say or do.
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Masters not only retain the spirit of the Original Mind, but they add to it their years of apprenticeship and an ability to focus deeply on problems or ideas. This leads to high-level creativity. Although they have profound knowledge of a subject, their minds remain open to alternative ways of seeing and approaching problems. They are able to ask the kinds of simple questions that most people pass over, but they have the rigor and discipline to follow their investigations all the way to the end.
They retain a childlike excitement about their field and a playful approach, all of which makes the hours of hard work alive and pleasurable.
Like children, they are capable of thinking beyond words—visually, spatially, intuitively—and have greater access to preverbal and unconscious forms of mental activity, all of which can account for their surprising ideas and creations.”
“If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable.”
Source: The Leader In You
“If we think in this way, then we indirectly state that non-existence is impossible because the very existence of its non-existence denies its non-existence. If we continue following this thought, we may conclude that it sounds so paradoxical that our knowledge, comprehension, the world itself, or, perhaps, our language by which we try to explain and understand it is insufficient.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.”
Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want
“If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.”
“If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.”
“If we think of Albert Schweitzer, Ghandi, Lincoln, we feel that the people who were the most outstanding in the this world are those who have given the most of themselves.”
“If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.”
“If we think of our heart,
rather than our purse,
as the reservoir
of our giving,
we shall find it
full all the time!”
“If we think of our life as a journey [...] we don't want to move into our future lugging along the heavy baggage of our past. One way to lighten the load is to work on forgiveness and acceptance.”
Source: The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul
“If we think of purpose as our lives in bloom in the world, our bodies might be the stems, supporting this unfolding. Any gardener will tell you that a wilted stem will not support a blooming, healthy flower. Either the bud will whither or the bloom will be only partial.”
Source: Divine Purpose, Find the Passion Within
“If we think of the field as being removed, there is no 'space'
which remains, since space does not have an independent
existence.”
“If we think of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can I get hold of and use the Holy Spirit; but if we think of Him in the biblical way as a divine Person, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely tender, then our thought will constantly be, 'How can the Holy Spirit get hold of and use me?'”
“If we think of the relationship between software and hardware, Artificial Intelligence mainly flows from software to hardware, just as the human mind controls the body. The recognition processed by Machine Learning directs hardware and other software. On the contrary, in the Internet of Things, processing from hardware to software is the main process, and the huge amount of big data collected by sensors is analysed by software.”
Source: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence: Including Machine Learning, Deep Learning, IoT, Data Science, Robotics, The Future of Jobs, Required Upskilling and Intelligent Industries
“If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.”
“If we think only the thoughts that are customary to us, and listen only to the words of those who are "of our mind," we are little likely to find refreshment and renewal in our minds, and thus all too likely to suppose that we have come to the end of all deliberations that we have to make.”
Source: The Gift of Fire
“If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.”
“If we think that these women filmmakers have worked 'in the margins,' it is we who have kept them there.”
Source: Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos
“If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.”
“If we think that we can do something big and include passion, it does not mean that you will be able to do it. There are different situations for all human beings in life; the circumstances of their life and your life are not the same. That's why instead of doing something big, think of doing something good and big according to the situation. Do not lose your senses in the absence of books and online videos.”
“If we think that we can secure our country by just talking tough without acting tough and smart, then we will misunderstand this moment and miss its opportunities. If we think that we can use the same partisan playbook where we just challenge our opponent's patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose. The times are too serious for this kind of politics.”
“If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened progressive control, preserve a habitable climate, and rein in the dangers of nuclear and other warfare, then we should. However, if we think it's more likely that California can achieve those goals by secession, then we should go down that path. There's no question. It's an absolute moral imperative.”
“If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.”
Source: Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church
“If we think the world has no sense, we are still free to enjoy all the imaginable nonsense. (“Drunken ship »)”
“If we think there is a problem with the world, we have a problem!”
Source: The Perfume of Silence
“If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightfull to Man.”
Source: Areopagitica