I Quotes
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“If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very paragraph you are reading, the talented cat draping her tail with miraculous precision over the very line you're not finished with.”
Source: The Cat's Pajamas
“If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list.”
“If you are reading this, I'm dead. Don't celebrate too much. Jesus is watching.”
Source: Place Your Betts
“If you are reading this... I'm dead so far probably or still alive who knows?
It's bad day in bad time, I can tell this for sure!”
“If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live.”
“If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of an active space development effort, comfort yourself with this thought. If you want to be on the leading edge of anything, you have by definition to be a couple of standard deviations away from most people. That makes you an odd-ball. The trick is to learn to accept it, then to like it-and keep on making lots of noise for what you believe in.”
“If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them.”
“If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.”
Source: Think & Grow Rich
“If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends, even though you appreciate them with new feeling.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“If you are ready to accept your success, then why not failure? For, both success and failure are your own.”
“If you are ready to be intimate, you will encourage the other person also to be intimate. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow the other also to enjoy simplicity, innocence, trust, love, openness.”
“If you are ready to cry..to feel the pain..to take the risk? You are ready for love”
Source: Beyond forever...in love
“If you are ready to die, then you are ready to live.”
“If you are ready to learn and evolve, there is hope for you yet - if not, the world will pity you for a few days and forget you after a week.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“If you are ready to make a difference and shine, then you must be ready to pay the price by laboring rightly with your mouth and with hands.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“If you are ready to trade the hollow self-made beauty of this world for the glorious Christ-built beauty of a set-apart young woman, this is where it all begins. Denying self, taking up your cross, and following the Lamb wherever He leads. In other words, letting go of all preoccupation with self: our comfort, our pleasure, our agenda, our popularity, our ability to gain the world's approval, even our own dreams and desires. And, as Paul did, treating all those things as rubbish for the excellence of the knowledge of Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings (Philippians 3:7-9).”
“If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.”
“If you are real you risk everything.”
“If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“If you are really angry, then you must be willing to pay the price of being alone or be remanded for someone else to have their freedom, illumination and justice.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.”
“If you are really feeling happy, you are feeling happy even if the whole world contradicts you. If the whole world agrees that you are not happy, then too it doesn't matter. Your happiness is real. It cannot be canceled by anybody's opinion. But if your happiness is unreal, it can be canceled by anybody. Even a small child can cancel it. You will be constantly looking towards people. You will be smiling, trying to show that you are happy so that they can say, 'Yes. You are very happy. You look very happy.'”
“If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.”
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
“If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.”
“If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, 'cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.”
“if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then , just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my”
“if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then , just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name.”
“If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.”
Source: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash
“If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.”
Source: Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent
“If you are really serious about playing golf and playing good golf, stick to the basic fundamentals. Sure, there's going to be a little change here and a change there, but you don't want to make them. You want to stick to the things that you started with, and you learned, and you know how to apply them.”
“If you are really spontaneous, people will think you are mad. If you go to a tree and start talking, or to a flower, people will think you are mad. If you go to a church and talk to a cross or to an image, nobody will think your are mad, they will think that you are religious. You are talking to a stone in a temple and everybody thinks you are religious because this is the authorized form.”
“If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported?”
“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
“If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that becomes universal, that reaches everybody. That’s the real magic of Björk-she teaches us the courage to be ourselves.”
“If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.”
“If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.”
“If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.”
“If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. The drama around even sitting in the car and singing into a tape recorder that's as big as your hand - waiting until it's very quiet, doing your thing, and then playing it back and hoping you like it - is the same basic anatomy as when you're in the recording studio, really. Sometimes it's better that way because some of the pressure is off and you can pretend it's throwaway.”
“If you are referring to the characters of The Room, each character has a different personality which you can see very clearly on the screen. If you are referring to the actors, they give me different emotions, personality which represents human behavior.”
“If you are refusing an alcoholic drink, for instance, you don’t need to justify your refusal. A simple respectful “No thanks” will do. You know your Yes—that is essential—but sometimes you keep it to yourself, because it is your business and not theirs.”
Source: The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes
“If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.”
“If you are relentless in climbing the mountains of this world, you will experience a great sense of progress.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“If you are reliant on bodyguards, who is guarding your soul?”
“If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.”
Source: The God Delusion
“If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power to destroy everything that You have created. If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is 460,000,000 years old. It could end in an afternoon.”
“If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to hell. Similarly, a nationalist believes his or her nation is better or more advanced—and a racist believes that an inherent difference between each race make his or her ethnicity superior. All of these ideologies spawn the hate, philosophical disagreements, and prejudices that have been the catalysts for various atrocious acts throughout history.”
“If you are remembering evil against someone, then pray for him; and as you remove through prayer the pain of the remembrance of the evil he has done, you will stop the advance of the passion. And when you have attained brotherly love and love for mankind, you will completely cast this passion out of your soul. Then when someone else does evil to you, be affectionate and humble toward him, and treat him kindly, and you will deliver him from this passion.”
“If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347
“If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci