I Quotes
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“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.”
Source: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
“If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally prefer the Witter Brynner translation.”
“If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!”
“If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.”
“If you are into synthesis it’s a must have app. I’ve been jamming all night!”
“If you are investing in your education and you are learning, you should do that as early as you possibly can, because then it will have time to compound over the longest period.
And that the things you do learn and invest in should be knowledge that is cumulative, so that the knowledge builds on itself.
So instead of learning something that might become obsolete tomorrow, like some particular type of software [that no one even uses two years later], choose things that will make you smarter in 10 or 20 years.”
“If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every child a birthday!”
“If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
Source: The Pocket Rumi
“If you are irritated by someone's who advise you to make you successful, trust me you have a severe problem yourself.”
“If you are jobless; you have not the proper ability, even you can't reach a cleaning job, join the Wikipedia, and become an editor. You may knock all the educated, lawyers, professional journalists, academics, and specialist of the various subjects down by the Wikipedia rules and policies that contradict each other. You have the useful weapon, which called the consensus. Your friends can support you win all disputes. You can change wrong to right, and right to wrong. You can decide the reliability and the assessment of subjects; however, no matter you qualify for that or not. You have multiple tools for harassing others. That means Wikipedia.”
“If you are jobless; you have not the proper ability, even you can't reach a cleaning job, join the Wikipedia, and become an editor. You may knock all the educated, lawyers, professional journalists, academics, and the specialist of the various subjects down by the Wikipedia rules and policies that contradict each other. You have the useful weapon which called the consensus. Your friends can let you win all disputes. You can manage wrong to right and right to wrong. You can decide the reliability and the assessment of subjects; however, no matter if you qualify for that or not. You have multiple tools for harassing others. That means Wikipedia.”
“If you are jobless, you have not the proper ability even you can't reach a cleaning job, join Wikipedia, and become an editor. You may knock all the educated figures, lawyers, professional journalists, academics, and specialists of the various subjects down by the Wikipedia rules and policies that contradict each other. You have a useful weapon, which is called the consensus. Your friends can support you to win all disputes. You can change wrong to right and right to wrong. You can decide the reliability and the assessment of subjects; however, no matter you qualify for that or not. You have multiple tools for harassing others. That means Wikipedia.”
“If you are jobless; you have not the proper ability, even you can't reach a cleaning job, join Wikipedia, and become an editor. You may knock all the educated, lawyers, professional journalists, academics, and specialist of the various subjects down by the Wikipedia rules and policies that contradict each other. You have a useful weapon, which called the consensus. Your friends can support you to win all disputes. You can change wrong to right, and right to wrong. You can decide the reliability and the assessment of subjects; however, no matter you qualify for that or not. You have multiple tools for harassing others. That means Wikipedia.”
“If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.”
“If you are just having unusual experiences and feeling special–especially if you feel better than everybody else–I think that is a dangerous thing.”
“If you are just proud of your country's past, then go to a library right away, re-read your country's history from many different sources, because without exception, every country's history has something to be proud of and something to be ashamed of!”
“If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.”
“If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today.”
“If you are justified, you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven.”
“If you are keen on achieving your dreams, you will gather the strength to dream until you win.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.”
“If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.”
“If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?”
“If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.”
“If you are kind enough today, history will sing your song and be kind to you.”
“If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.”
“If you are kind to just yourself and not others then you are not a kind person.”
“If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.”
“If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.”
“If you are landing it doesn't really matter who is sitting beside you but while you are taking off, it is very important you know who is around you. Eagles don't flock with pigeons.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“If you are late for work in Mumbai and reach the station just as the train is leaving the platform, don't despair. You can run up to the packed compartments and find many hands unfolding like petals to pull you on board. And while you will probably have to hang on to the door frame with your fingertips, you are still grateful for the empathy of your fellow passengers, already packed tighter than cattle, their shirts drenched with sweat in the badly ventilated compartment. They know that your boss might yell at you or cut your pay if you miss this train.”
“If you are laying down, and face down the ground, remember, there is hope, you just need to stand up, and keep moving, cause the journey, is far from over.”
“If you are lazy, then undoubtedly you will soon become poor”
“If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”
Source: Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran
“If you are leading others and you're lonely, then you're not doing it right. Think about it. If you're all alone, that means nobody is following you. And if nobody is following you, you're not really leading!”
Source: The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs
“If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.”
“If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.”
“If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.”
“If you are learning psychology to manipulate people, you don't need lessons, you need treatment.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“If you are left side in the world don't be ashamed to show it, do not settle to be another lost men in the chapter.”
“If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity”
“If you are lenient with criminals, crime will rise.
If you oppress the masses,
they will rise up against you.
If you are just and kind,
even your enemies will respect you.
To rule over your nation righteously is better
than to rule over a hundred nations with an iron fist.”
“If you are leveraged five times of your capital, a 20% move in your preferred direction can double your capital, but a similar move in the opposite direction can wipe you out.”
“If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the world and their is no world. You have shattered the prism of illusion.”
“If you are like an ordinary person now doing ordinary things, it is because you know the same thing that ordinary people know”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“If you are like most people, you have an assortment of friends and family you can call upon in times of trouble. For instance, if you woke up in the middle of the night and saw a masked woman trying to crawl through your bedroom window, you might call your mother or father to help you push her back out. If you found yourself hopelessly lost in the middle of a strange city, you might ask the police to give you a ride home. And if you were an author locked in an Italian restaurant that was slowly filling up with water, you might call upon your acquaintances in the locksmith, pasta, and sponge business to come and rescue you.”
Source: The Hostile Hospital
“If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.”
Source: Stumbling on Happiness
“If you are listening then the employee will not go out to the world announcing problems on social media.”
Source: HR Mastermind