I Quotes
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“If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.”
“If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.”
“If you consider it valuable, it will grow valuable.”
“If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.”
“If you consider risk versus benefit, I mean, what is the risk of meditating? You just spend twenty minutes meditating. It's one of the things you can say is pretty much zero risk and there is the potential for massive benefit. Even if it's just minimal benefit, who wouldn't want that?”
“If you consider sexual desire and romantic love between men and women to be natural and healthy, you are not a feminist . There is nothing natural about sex, according to feminist ideology, no biological urge that causes women to be attracted to men.”
“If you consider something to be the truth, and if you are attached to that, you are caught. Even when the truth itself comes and knocks at your door, you will not open it. The practice of releasing your knowledge is very important in Buddhism. Knowledge is the first obstacle of the mind that a meditator should be able to remove. We should not to be too sure of anything.”
“If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to draw a line from him to me or me to him.”
Source: No and Me
“If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.”
“If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.”
“If you consider that there are a million people forced out of their homes by Katrina, multiply that by 150, and then stick those people in countries who, as inconceivable as it seems, are less prepared than we were to deal with the whole thing.”
“If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.”
“If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.”
Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson
“If you consider your life to be happy and successful, then it is exactly so. If you view your life as unhappy or as a failure, then you are right about that. Fortunately or unfortunately, you can never be wrong on this matter.”
“If you consider yourself a credible person, when a lie reaches you, that’s where the fallacy should end.”
“If you consider yourself a friend, dont tell me." Because if i know the rumors, i'll feel like i have to confront the. and right this second i want to live in ignorant bliss.”
“If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.”
“If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.”
“If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also.”
Source: The 21 Success Secrets of Self-made Millionaires: How to Achieve Financial Independence Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.”
“If you constantly beat yourself up with negative thoughts, you will either beat up on the people around you- verbally, emotionally, or physically- or you will beat up on yourself by destroying some area of your own life.”
“If you constantly dwell on the past that's where you end up living.”
“If you constantly focus on doing things, you will certainly miss better way of doing things and better opportunities that might show up. This happens because when you are caught up in action you miss looking at the bigger picture.”
Source: small wins BIG SUCCESS: A handbook for exemplary success in post Covid19 Outbreak Era
“If you constantly go back over your life and focus on the difficulties from the past, you are just bringing more difficult circumstances to you now.
When you think back over your life, let go of all the things you don't love about your life, let go of all the things you don't love about your childhood and keep only the things you love. Let go of the things you don't love about your adolescent and adult years and keep only the good things. When you do, you'll discover that you begin to feel happier and happier.
The more positive thoughts you entertain, the more you notice the things that you love and that make you feel good, and the happier you become.
Like attracts like, and when you're happy, you attract happy people, circumstances, and events into your life. This is how your life changes - one happy thought at a time!”
“If you constantly limit your life by saying I can't do this, I can't do that, this is incredibly difficult, this is completely impossible, you will never learn how much you can actually achieve and how much is quite possible! Don't make your life colourless by limiting your life, get rich by liberating your life!”
“If you constantly look stupid somewhere, you might be a genius but in the wrong place. Average minds fit in anywhere, It’s intelligence that doesn’t fit.”
“If you constantly talk negative about your country, you'll never become the light in, or to your country.”
“If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.”
Source: The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition
“If you construct a room in paint, you haunt it. Your life rests in every stroke. So paint only the rooms that you can bear to occupy forever. Or paint the stars instead.”
Source: The Ecliptic
“If you consulted your business experience instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter. Actors who can't act believe in themselves; and debtors who won't pay. It would be much truer to say that a man will certainly fail, because he believes in himself. Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness.”
Source: Orthodoxy
“If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.”
Source: The Third Jesus: How to Find Truth and Love in Today's World
“If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.”
“If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.”
“If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.”
“If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“If you continue to act now and be a member of the WWE Universe, you will see the same footage from... another... camera angle.”
“If you continue to concentrate so deeply on the negative factors you are unable to acknowledge all the positive results.”
Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
“If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave.”
“If you continue to do your job with great seriousness and discipline without complaining about not having a single audience, one day you will have a large audience!”
“If you continue to dream, if you never abandon your dream, it will come true in the end.”
“If you continue to entertain "boys", don't be upset when you can't find a "man".”
“If you continue to exhibit many behaviors that are burdensome to people, you can also prompt them to see you as a taker who is only in it for themselves. This may cause them to treat you as a liability that worsens their problems, and you may even become increasingly isolated and devoid of health.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.”
“If you continue to live in your past after coming to Jesus and accepting Him as Lord and Savior, then you are still a long way from moving forward”
“If you continue to think the way you have always thought, you'll continue to get what you've always got. Is it enough?”
“If you continue to think the way you thought, you will never break free, and you will end up distraught”
Source: Bulimia Sucks!: 10 Simple Steps to Stop Bingeing and Purging
“If you continue to threaten us, I will act upon my threat.’ I felt silly using the precise language of bargaining dictators and gangsters, but they seemed to take it seriously. Stickings’ smirk almost completely faded.
‘The thing is, Effie –’ his voice dropped to barely a murmur, ‘– I don’t believe you.”
“If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes untenable at some point, a democracy, because people eventually will realize what's going on. You can only bulls - t people through kinds of media outlets for so long, and eventually you have to physically control them.”
“If you continue to treat yourself like a 3rd class citizen, you’ll stay a 3rd class citizen.
You’re better than that.”
“If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher inflation, and that you would not have lower unemployment.”