I Quotes
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“If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.”
Source: Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.”
“If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.”
“If you observe nature daily, it brings harmony with you and God.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“If you observe the pace of my breaths, you won't need to listen to my words.”
“If you observe well, your own heart will answer.”
“If you obsess about the next, you will miss what you need in the now and ultimately, sacrifice the next.”
“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.
The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.
If this sounds too mystical, refer again to the body. Every significant vital sign- body temperature, heart rate, oxygen consumption, hormone level, brain activity, and so on- alters the moment you decide to do anything… decisions are signals telling your body, mind, and environment to move in a certain direction.”
Source: The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.”
“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.”
“If you offer fasting with humility and with mercy, your bones, as Isaiah said, shall be fat, and you shall be like a well-watered garden (cf. Isa. 58:11). So, then, your soul shall grow fat and its virtues also by the spiritual richness of fasting, and your fruits shall be multiplied by the fertility of your mind, so that there may be in you the inebriation of soberness, like that cup of which the Prophet says: 'Your cup which inebriates, how excellent it is' (Ps. 23:5 LXX)!”
“If you offer me a job sitting in a Winnebago with make-up girls and free food, I'm probably going to take it.”
“If you offer me a starring role in a movie, I have no interest.”
“If you offer people a decent service, if you give them you know Internet access, if their phones are not cut off on the trains, you know if you have plugs where they can plug in their computers, and if you have a smiling, cheerful staff; and if you can travel really quickly, then you can make a success out of the rail business.”
“If you offer them some sugarcane, even elephants can do this, sometimes on the first try.”
“if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.”
Source: The last lecture
“If you often feel alone, ignored, or forgotten, think about this: closing the door and locking yourself in won't change anything—literally and figuratively.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.”
Source: After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction
“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit
“If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...
“If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy.”
Source: Rationality: From AI to Zombies
“If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.”
Source: Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering
“If you, one, loves something or someone, that means that one is willing to, and does, sacrifice for it. That is, one chooses to do and give what is better to the being or thing one loves than to sacrifice the loved one for the personal emotion that is unrelated to or even hinders the giving. In other words, the way to transform an emotion is with a deeper one. This involves discernment and, yes, discipline, which are both frowned upon and seen as emotionless and less important. Which is immaturity, plain and simple, and is the fundamental aspect of human growth from child to adolescence to adult.”
Source: Re:
“If you only attract Mr. Wrong or Ms. Crazy, evaluate the common thread in this diversity of people: YOU!”
Source: The Forbidden Secrets of the Goody Box: Relationship Advice That Your Father Didn't Tell You and Your Mother Didn't Know
“If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.”
“If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.”
“If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.”
“If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.”
“If you only do the work when someone is watching, you aren't a professional; you're just an actor playing a part.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.”
“If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.”
“If you only do what you can do, you’ll never be better than what you are.”
“If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than you are now.”
“If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I am now, but the fact that I am is pretty cool.”
“If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion”
“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.”
“If you only do what you like, who's going to do what you don't like?”
Source: Please Look After Mom
“If you only ever did the things you don’t want to do, you’d have everything you’ve ever wanted.”
Source: Stop Saying You're Fine: Discover a More Powerful You
“If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.”
“If you only ever heard "Valley Girl," or "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," or a song that has a comedic narrative, you would get some impression that that was novelty music, but that's the only stuff that ever got on the radio. You can make the argument that that's what has confused generations as to what his music's about.”
“If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.”
“If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep
your mouth shut.”
“If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.”
“If you only focus on what is, you may never attain what could be. Focus on the possibilities.”
“If you only get one song, it has to be Bullfrog Blues”
“If you only give back what you get from other people, you're not giving as much as you can.”
“If you only go around once in life then, why has that one gone around more than once?”
Source: We have our difference in common 2.
“If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?”