I Quotes
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“If you are thinking about mistakes during games then you are not concentrating on what is important which is the next shot or the next cross or whatever you have to deal with in that game. The mental side of things is massive, probably the biggest.”
“If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.”
Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar
“If you are thinking about, talking about, and spending energy on what is missing in your life, what is wrong, what you don't like, or what always has been, then you are going to continue to attract those things into your life. We become what we think about.”
“If you are thinking every day, 'I have to get to the gym' and 'I have to lose this weight,' and that's all you think about and you obsess over it, it's not healthy.”
“If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though the thinking will help towards satisfaction you will still be in bondage. There is no harm in this, but the higher samadhi, without such motives, is best.”
“If you are thinking that the Lord is a distant cosmic architect or an ubiquitous heavenly uncle, an impersonal life force or a good old Santa Claus, you are terribly mistaken! He is the untamable Lord of the Universe who actively involves Himself in the daily affairs of this Cosmos which He created wonderfully”
“If you are thinking the price of Bitcoin is going up, you must also realize that the purchasing power of Bitcoin is increasing, hence you are guaranteed of freedom. You must decide not to allow the fiat currency to be your mental intermediary when thinking about the world.”
“If you are thinking whether to cry or laugh, cry.”
“If you are thinking, you can't understand Zen. Anything that can be written in a book, anything that can be said - all this is thinking . . . but if you read with a mind that has cut off all thinking, then Zen books, sutras and Bibles are all the truth. So is the barking of a dog or the crowing of a rooster. All things are teaching you at every moment, and these sounds are even better teaching than Zen books.”
“If you are thought to be a good person, it means that you are weak. If you are thought to be a bad person, it doesn't mean that you are a strong person. Rather, it would mean that you are unpleasant for everyone. Be unpredictable, neither good nor bad. Let them think of you as a good person with whom everyone should be careful while communicating, because you can be dangerous if you aren't treated properly.”
“If you are through with dreams, then progress halts.”
“If you are thrown into the deep and do not swim, you will drown... so keep swimming, right?”
Source: Red Rising
“If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.”
Source: The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear
“If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.”
“If you are tired of people wasting your time, move away from them as soon as you realize what they are doing to your life.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“If you are tired, slow down, don't back down.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“If you are tired, take shelter in silence! If you want to find the truth, take shelter in silence! If you're tired of people, if you missed yourself, if you just want to watch the world or if you want to heal your soul, take shelter in silence!”
“If you are to accept that embracing the Sacred Dark is as necessary as embracing the Sacred Light, does that mean that it does not matter if you live or die, heal or hurt, love or hate?”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.”
“If you are to be a homeowner, you need to do all these things. You need to keep your exterior tidy. After all, it serves as an outward reflection of the stuff going on inside. Doesn't it? If the walls are crumbling, so must be your marriage. If the paint is chipping, so must be your will to live.”
Source: This Is Not a Confession
“If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must be wise, if you would be among the pure in heart, you must be pure in heart.”
“If you are to be an effective nation builder, make it your business, to understand what is really happening in the economy, both nationally and globally.”
“If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.”
“If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.”
“If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.”
Source: Africa and America
“If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.”
“If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.”
“If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.”
Source: Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)
“If you are to fail in life, just fail forward.”
“If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing. Go in your sins, they are your livery. Your ruin is your argument for mercy! Your poverty is your plea for heavenly alms! And your need is the motive for heavenly goodness.”
“If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.”
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.”
Source: Disenchantment
“If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.”
Source: The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Politics
“If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“If you are to shape your world in following Christ, you are called, prayerfully, to discern where in your discipline the human project is showing signs of exile and humbly and boldly to act symbolically in ways that declare that the powers have been defeated, that the kingdom has come in Jesus the Jewish Messiah, that the new way of being human has been unveiled, and to be prepared to tell the story that explains what these symbols are all about. And in all this you are to declare, in symbol and practice, in story and articulate answers to questions, that Jesus is Lord and Caesar is not; that Jesus is Lord and Marx, Freud and Caesar is not; that Jesus is Lord and neither modernity nor postmodernity is. When Paul spoke of the gospel, he was not talking primarily about a system of salvation but about the announcement, in symbol and word, that Jesus is the true Lord of the world, the true light of the world.”
Source: The Challenge of Easter
“If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.”
Source: Tales of Nevèrÿon
“If you are to succeed in anything, you must first be able to imagine it.”
“If you are to use Alexander Graham Bell’s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy, use it as he would have wished; and Dr Bell insisted that all phone calls should begin with the words ‘Ahoy, ahoy’. Nobody knows why he insisted this – he had no connection to the navy – but insist he did and started every phone call that way. Nobody else did, and it was at the suggestion of his great rival Edison that people took to saying ‘Hello’. This seems unfair.”
Source: Mark Forysth's Gemel Edition: The Etymologicon and The Horologicon ebook bundle
“If you are told from the time you are one month that you're no good and you're not smart and you can't do it and you don't have an opinion of your own and you pick the wrong friends and you don't study the right way and you don't wear the right clothes and you don't look nice, at some point you're going to start believing it. And if you believe it, you're going to need a mommy to tell you what to do. And that's abuse. Not to let your child grow up to be an independent, respected human being.”
Source: When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life
“If you are told that such an one speaks ill of you, make no defence against what was said, but answer, He surely knew not my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these only!”
“If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.”
“If you are too busy for prayer, you are too busy for a relationship with God.”
“If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.”
“If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.”
“If you are too busy to care,
You are not busy, you're dead.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.”
“If you are too busy to exercise, you are too busy.”
“If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are too busy to love.”
“If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy.”
“If you are too dangerous to get on a plane, you are too dangerous to buy a gun.”