I Quotes
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“If you have a patient in a doctor's office who's just been told they have terminal cancer but there's this operation they could perform right now that might save their lives. ... They have a 90 percent chance of surviving the operation — if you tell them that, they respond one way. If you tell them ... that they have a 10 percent chance of being killed by the operation, they are about three times less likely to have the operation.”
“If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.”
“If you have a person with whom you can travel the world and live togheter in five-square-meter apartment, you have everything.”
Source: Diši, da prođe
“If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them.”
“If you have a personality, you’re a person.”
Source: Tess of the Road
“If you have a plan and you don't even SHOW IT, you are just like someone born to be great and don't even KNOW IT.”
“If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor, and your team in Washington. Believe me, your ideas count. An individual can make a difference.”
“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.”
“If you have a poverty of heart then you are the poorest among the poor.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you out of the present moment. You will be caught in the past. You will close the door that gave rise to the experience in the first place.”
“If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs.”
“If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.”
“If you have a privately owned system, there's going to be monies leaving the community that will go towards shareholder dividends and high salaries. If you have a community owned, municipally owned facility, those extra resources are being reinvested in the community and they can be going to weatherization and other projects that are vested in the community.”
“If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.”
Source: Interventions: A Life in War and Peace
“If you have a problem at that level where there is hatred, prejudice, and anger, that has nothing to do with the other person. What is wrong with you that you are feeling that way? Look at yourself. Quite often it is their upbringing or their parent's problems. You got to get free. At some point you have to take responsibility for your actions.”
“If you have a problem, deal with the problem - and you no longer have a problem!”
Source: Doing This ONE Thing Will Change Your Life Forever!: The Self Help Guide to Personal Growth & Healthy Relationships
“If you have a problem I find keeping it a secret makes it so much stronger.”
“If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.”
“If you have a problem with honesty, you should be examining why that is.”
“If you have a problem with me, it is OK, because Mullah Omar does too.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.”
“If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.”
“If you have a problem with someone or you feel violated or you're not happy with their service or whatever the other person is doing. In life there are levels of escalations to solve any problem or the sort out the differences. Choose to know this life levels of escalation.
LIFE LEVELS OF ESCALATION
1. Choose to speak to the person. Notifying them of their doing, and to confirm if they know and understand what they are doing. Ask them about their actions.
2. Choose to tell them, on how you feel or what they are doing or not doing makes you feel.
3. If the person persist. Choose to call on, other people that are close to him /her to assist. Like his parents, family members , elderly people or friends.
4. If they persist and whatever they are doing is wrong. Choose to report them to the authority.
5. If they persist, then you can choose to report them to social media.
Whenever you report someone. Ask yourself this questions .
You report them, because you want the person to stop what they doing and seek some help or
you report them, because you want to expose them, to hurt them, to get them into trouble and for them to pay for what they did?”
“If you have a problem with someone's race, sexual orientation, politics or religious beliefs, you have a problem.”
“If you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon won't change!”
“If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.”
“If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“If you have a problem, if you have a fire in your house, would you want - don't want your neighbors to give you a hand? That's what we have.”
“If you have a problem, try to get help, you can get through it if you get help.”
“If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.”
“If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part of their job. So it's vanity but it's also not in a lot of cases. It's being professional.”
“If you have a project to pour your learnings into, you will retain the knowledge.”
“If you have a pulse, you have a purpose!”
“If you have a pulse, you're going to have pain.”
“If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.”
“If you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library.”
“If you have a question about something you have read or heard, first site your source and then ask the direct question to the person it concerns. Playing around the mulberry bush gets you nowhere.”
“If you have a question, then find the answer.”
“If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear from now until the 4th of November will be: 'We must get our government out of the hands of predatory wealth.' 'The good people of this great country are burdened to death with taxes. Now what I intend to do is ...' What he intends to do is try and get elected. That's all any of them intend to do. Another one that will hum over the old static every night will be: 'This country has reached a crisis in its national existence.'”
“If you have a reasonable amount of stupidity, you will follow Nations of stupids!!”
“If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.”
“If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds like a very good idea.”
“If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.”
“If you have a religion it must be cosmic.”
Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.”
“If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.”
“If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.”
Source: Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays
“If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.”
“If you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they do not have the key. But there is no point in talking to them about it, unless of course you want them to admire the room from outside! The honorable thing to do is put a lock on the door which will be noticed only by those who can open it, not by the rest.”
Source: Culture and Value
“If you have a sane economy, and by sane economy I mean one which is not addicted to debt, not a Ponzi economy, then the change in debt each year should contribute a minor amount to demand. Therefore, if you tried to correlate debt to the level of unemployment you would not find much of a correlation. Unfortunately that is not the economy we live in.”