I Quotes
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“If you ignore a negative thought, it may be replaced by a positive one.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.”
“If you ignore science, you cannot call yourself a New Age philosopher, because science is available to you as a tool to understand this world.”
“If you ignore somebody's record and only focus on something that happened 25 years ago when all they were doing even then was trying to stand up for a minority group that felt excluded and discriminated against, then I don't - I think that is a distortion of a person's record. I mean, a person's record is full, not just the parts that you want to use against them.”
“If you ignore the instructions of the Holy Scriptures, you stumble in sin.”
“If you ignore the mountain, doesn't mean mountain will ignore you too..”
“If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.”
“If you ignore the red flags, embrace the heartache to come.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“If you ignored all other economic and community benefits of bicycling, the factor of health alone is more than enough reason to invest hundreds of times as much as we currently do into retrofitting our entire country to be a bicycling paradise.”
Source: Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy
“If you Iive long enough, if you don’t fall in love too easily, and if you keep your hatred pure– wonderful things can happen.”
“If you imagine a castle as bright and sparkly with glass slippers, singing mice, and servants with white gloves, this was the opposite.”
Source: Lost in Ireland
“If you imagine a world of real abundance. Like a world where we built the right AI that's just pulling wealth out of the atmosphere and no one really has to work anymore, because we literally have machines that can build machines that can build machines, that are all powered by sunlight, that do everything better than we can. Now why wouldn't that be some kind of utopia? Well it wouldn't be a utopia because we have these very weird emotions, or many of us do, that make it seem like it would be wrong to spread the wealth around. Most people are living as though they want to live in a world where there's a few trillionaires living in compounds ringed by razor wire, and everyone else is sort of starving to death. It's like a winner take all scenario. And so, we have to find a new ethic whereby people are no longer—their purchase on existence is no longer justified by doing profitable work that other people will pay them for. In a world of true abundance you shouldn't have to work to justify your life. You should be free to enjoy the wealth of the world. If we are going to get to that place, we have to change our ethics around that.”
“If you imagine for a moment that I would do that, then I think you pretend that you don't know who I am. Hear it plainly. I am a Christian.”
“If you imagine how many years the other guys have been in my position Im in now, they have been motivated to get back and challenge the leaders, ... Theres no reason not to be motivated and I look forward very much to challenging again.”
“If you imagine Maslow's hierarchy of needs, if you can get all those requirements checked off and have all those amazing things that we need to just live lives, but actually get to do the thing that you're really passionate about.”
“If you imagine my studio floor, you can just keep picking it up and getting masterpieces.”
“If you imagine that everything is an exchange, then we're supposed to just transact and walk away. If we haven't walked away and we still have a relationship, it's because there's a debt.”
“If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end.”
“If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions;
if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.”
Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine
“If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.”
“If you imagine whipping your skin every day, that's what it does and it's a full prosthetic piece.”
“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”
“If you imagine yourself as separate from the the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear. I do not see the world as separate from me and so there is nothing for me to desire, or fear.”
“If you imagined doing something and do that thing, then people think you are crazy.”
“If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer.”
“If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.”
“If you immerse yourself too single-mindedly in your chosen art form whether it's video games, movies, comics or whatever, your work can easily become just a reflection of what others are doing in that field rather than breaking new ground.”
“If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs. It is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children. I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this.”
“If you improve 1% a day, then in 100 days, guess what? You're 100% better.”
“If you improve each of your skills that effect each other by 10 percent, you get 100 percent more profit.”
Source: sciVive
“If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.”
“If you improve lives, you lay the foundation for better society.”
“If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.”
“If you improve your education system, there's no telling what kind of businesses you'll be able to attract.”
“If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.”
“If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.”
“If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day. You may hurry and scurry, And flurry and worry, You've lost them forever, Forever and aye.”
Source: Black Beauty
“If you, in this moment, have a secure and safe shelter, as well as ease of access to food and water, then you can consider yourself a lucky human. If you have anything in excess of this, well, consider yourself privileged.”
Source: FAITH, In Stories That Change
“If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.”
“If you include quotes with your Instagram photos, you need to look at your life.”
“If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.”
“If you increase the dose of your chemical reaction towards me, it might cause ten of my hairs to fall but if I increase the dose of my chemical reaction towards you, it will cause ten of your human corpses to fall in one burial”
“If you increase the number of rockets you build and you buy, then it's the scale of the economy, the price is going to come down. It may not come down in order of magnitude, but if several commercial ventures start being successful and there becomes a bigger market for these rockets, the price will naturally come down a bit. That's why I think Excalibur Almaz, we're a little bit unique in that we don't look at our so-called competition with disdain, we want them to succeed and it needs to have more than one player. Even if we are successful, we couldn't handle the entire market ourselves.”
“If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.”
Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
“If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.”
“If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.”
“If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.”
“If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful”
“If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.”