I Quotes
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“If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.”
“If you make exercise your hobby instead of your enemy it becomes your friend; it's the one thing that will never let you down. It will always be there for you and it will always make you better than you were before. Remember: every time you go to the gym, every time you put the right supplement in your mouth, you're better than you were ten minutes ago. [...] The irony is most people know what to do, they just don't do what they know.”
“If you make fiction just as valuable as reality, then any reality you don't need can be a delusion”
“If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.”
“If you make friends and make them feel unloved, you become a fake friend. So be a real friend; let brotherly love continue.”
“If you make friends with yourself, you’ll never be alone.”
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
“If you make God your strength, you will be strong.”
“If you make good music, people believe in you, but you have to have your websites poppin', you got to be on these blogs, you got to be at all these types of events. You got to be everywhere, and doing everything, and the more they see and hear you, the more chance you have at success.”
“If you make great music, you can become a mold breaker or a trailblazer. It's a little scary to do that because you can't always see what's in front of you, but you're clearing out a path for people behind you to follow.”
“If you make happy those that are near, those that are far will come.”
Source: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
“If you make history with God, He'll make history with you”
“If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.”
“If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.”
“If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.”
Source: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
“If you make it about championships, you'll never be satisfied, no matter how many you win. If you make it about relationships, you will find true joy, happiness, and fulfillment.”
“If you make it clear that you have a busy, interesting life, but that you'd like to fit her in to you schedule, she'll be happy to hear from you.”
“If you make it into an Olympic team, you're good; if you make it into an Olympic final, you're great; and if you win an Olympic medal you're a freak.”
“If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.”
Source: Diplomatic Immunity
“If you make it right with yourself, it will be right with the whole world.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.”
“If you make it, great. If you miss it - what's there to be afraid of?”
“If you make just a straight scary movie, people are just - you don't know what they're thinking.”
“If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.”
“If you make love with the divine now, in the next lifeyou will have the face of satisfied desire.”
Source: The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir
“If you make me lunch," he said, "will you put it in a brown paper bag?...Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means that someone cares about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag?”
Source: An Invisible Thread
“If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.”
“If you make meaning, you'll make money.”
“If you make mistakes that is alright because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again.”
“If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.”
“If you make money out of war then your soul will never be at peace.”
“If you make money, you might not make meaning.”
“If you make more appointments with quality people, you will have less disappointments with non-quality people.”
“If you make more roads, you will have more traffic.”
“If you make music, don’t give up if you’re not making money, getting any recognition or not getting good feedback. You were doing it wrong in the first place if you thought that. Do it for yourself..bleed the thoughts out on that canvas in musical form.”
“If you make one gift this year, make it the gift of knowledge.”
“If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.”
“If you make one word out of 'The IRS' it spells 'theirs.'”
“If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
“If you make people laugh too much, their blood becomes - I believe it is acidic as opposed to alkaline. It changes the oxygen level in the blood, and people are likelier to pass out at that point.”
“If you make people think they're thinking they'll like you, but if you make people actually think, then watch out, you're not going to be popular.”
“If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them.”
“If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.”
“If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.”
Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12
“If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.”
Source: Patanjali Yoga Sutras
“If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.”
“If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a cultural phenomenon that's not available anywhere else, that's not available on television broadcasts, that's not on cable, it's only on some Web site. And the world will find it. And when that happens, it will be what the 'kiss' was to the theatrical movie business, 5,000 years ago or whenever it was.”
“If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.”
“If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.”
“If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.”