I Quotes
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“If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.”
“If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we are in base reality would be one in billions.”
“If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).”
Source: The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward
“If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.”
Source: Healology
“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.”
Source: Latin America: from colonization to globalization
“If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.”
“If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.”
“If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you’ll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.”
“If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.”
“If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.”
“If you attach your mind to any ideology, you're going to be on a road, and that road may or may not lead you in a good direction. But you're gonna stay on that road because you are attached to an ideology. It could be a terrible road, but you stick with it regardless of rational thinking.”
“If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.”
Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu
“If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and you feel that if only you could peer round the corner there might be an easy solution. There is nothing like having somebody else beside you, because he can usually peer round the corner.”
Source: Collected Works: Michael Atiyah Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers; General Papers
“If you attack Ann Coulter, you don't end up with your cat killed or your tires slashed.”
“If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.”
“If you attack the Clintons publicly, make sure all your friends know that you are not planning suicide, that you're not careless when you drive a car.”
“If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.”
“If you attack Trump, he's not gonna sit there and take it. He's an alpha male. He's gonna come right back at you and he's gonna keep coming back at you.”
“If you attain fame and fortune, and do not attain gratitude along with it, the chances are that you will not enjoy that fame or that fortune.”
Source: Success Habits: Proven Principles for Greater Wealth, Health, and Happiness
“If you attain liberation do not feel that it matters or it is important. You had nothing to do with it. If you are bound by ignorance do not feel bad. You had nothing to do with it.”
“If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi)
“If you attempt to blueshift your brain matter while simultaneously using your mental focus to extricate any red shifting (slowing down) of details in your life, you'll become trapped in an optimism loop with no forward progress actually possible.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.”
“If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.”
“If you avert your face from violence,
who then shall punish wrong doing ?”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.”
“If you avoid difficult things, great things will avoid you.”
“If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.”
Source: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
“If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.”
Source: The Spectator Bird
“If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state.”
“If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.”
“If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.”
“If you BABYSIT the youths, you will get BABIES.
If you LEAD the youths, you will have LEADERS!”
Source: How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church
“If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich”
“If you bake a cake without sugar, you can't expect it to be sweet. Same with your life. You can't expect to live a life of values if you keep telling yourself that one day later you'll live them.”
Source: Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping
“If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of seltzer down someone's pants. But if you win an Olympic gold medal, the world will not have one more Olympic gold medalist. It will just have you instead of someone else.”
Source: The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
“If you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. -Kahlil Gibran”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“If you balk at the idea that dogs could be bred like pigs, I’m sorry to disabuse you. Dogs and pigs alike are treated as breeding livestock. The animals are made to have as many young as possible. The babies are taken away at a young age so that they can be sold and a new breeding cycle can begin. The animals never have real sex—that is, sex when and with whom they choose; rather, females are tied up so they can be mounted or, more often, they are artificially inseminated. In commercial breeding operations, and also in many small-scale or backyard breeding outfits, dogs are treated, like the sows and their piglets, as units of production and their sole function is to bear young for profit. All they do is bear one litter after another, until (usually at the age of four or five) they are spent. At which point they are no longer of value and are killed. Taken together with the spay/neuter picture, what we have is rather bizarre: an enormous population of eunuchs and virgins, and a small population of dogs who live their entire meagre existence as breeders, as part of a puppy production line.”
Source: Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets
“If you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available.”
“If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.”
“If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes...”
“If you base your society on wealth and not culture, it will be sold to the highest bidder.”
“If you base your worth on other people's opinion of you, you will be worth little or nothing by the time you encounter your first critic.”
“If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.”
“If you battle L, you picked the wrong head
I smash mics like cornbread
You can't kill me, I was born dead”
“If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.”
“If you be faithful as an influencer, God will allow those you mentored you to become your mentees.”
“If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.”
Source: Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon