I Quotes
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“If you pay attention to where your exposures are, you might tend up buying credit default swaps against a variety of people that you - companies that you deal with.”
“If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.”
“If you pay close attention to each day, you will discover the magic moment.”
“If you pay close attention to your Life’s journey so far, you will realize that you have always – and only – got what you need. What you want has come to you, on its own, in its own time, and often only when you have stopped wanting it! This is the way of Life. Understand this. And you will live happily ever after!”
“If you pay off your mortgage before retirement, you take a huge financial load off your shoulders. You also become eligible to take out a reverse mortgage once you turn 62.”
“If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.”
“If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.”
“If you pay sufficient attention, everything in life is magnificent, everything is a doorway to the Divine.”
“If you pay too much attention to hate, they win...they bring you down. Too much love in the world to deal with that nonsense. Be positive.”
“If you pay too much attention to the criticism of the one who is inferior, then you must endure the constraints of the plane to which you have descended without feeling hurt.”
“If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.”
“If you peel away all the layers, Feminism is finally about just letting women be. That's it.”
“If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.”
Source: What I Know For Sure
“If you perceive a world where there are separate images and you still feel a charge about anything, that is the indicator that you want to ask for Help. Lord, help me today. I am determined to see. Help me to see. That is where the openness and the humility come in. If you feel a charge about something, you not only are not seeing clearly, you are not seeing at all.”
Source: Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles
“If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.”
“If you perform your part, God will fulfill His. And once you put off specifically, you should just as thoroughly believe that God will renew your mind, despite the fact you know not how.”
Source: The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee
“If you perform your work viewing it as your dharma, your actions become sacred.”
“If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.”
“If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.”
“If you persist in identifying with current or prior performance by constantly thinking and talking about it, then where you have been, where you are, and where you are going will all be one and the same”
Source: The 4:8 Principle: The Secret to a Joy-Filled Life
“If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks that lead to creative growth.”
Source: The New Creative Artist
“If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!”
“If you persist over time, refusing to take offense, making your motive genuine, showing respect, and constantly searching for Mutual Purpose, then the other person will almost always join you in dialogue.”
Source: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
“If you persist, you will know what is possible.”
“If you personalize losses, you can't trade.”
“If you personally advocate that I be caged if I don't pay for whatever "government" things YOU want, please don't pretend to be tolerant, or non-violent, or enlightened, or compassionate. Don't pretend you believe in "live and let live," and don't pretend you want peace, freedom or harmony. It's a simple truism that the only people in the world who are willing to "live and let live" are voluntaryists. So you can either PRETEND to care about and respect your fellow man while continuing to advocate widespread authoritarian violence, or you can embrace the concepts of self-ownership and peaceful coexistence, and become an anarchist.”
“If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be. If, on the contrary, you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains.”
Source: Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion
“If you phone a psychic and she doesn't answer the phone before it rings, hang up.”
“If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on.”
“If you pick a star in the sky, it will be one degree off 72 years later. It will take 25,920 years for this to complete its orbit. This 25,920 year span represents the precession of the equinoxes cycle.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.”
“If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.”
“If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you”
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
“If you pick up a stone on the beach and put it in your pocket, and the very next day something good happens to you, you may start having the belief that that stone is lucky for you. So, you hold on to it as a lucky charm. Now this is completely acceptable self-preservation mechanism, but when fraudsters start selling such stones to the meek and vulnerable, that is not only unacceptable, but downright criminal.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.”
“If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.”
Source: Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse
“If you picked your top 25 things and took off the bottom 20 and avoided them, because they might hurt the top 5, you would be using the negative space idea. The result is more work on the stuff you really care about. Depending on how far different your 1-25 really were, you might have a top 10 that were almost all the same thing, so there’s a little bit of accuracy of scope that is involved.”
Source: sciVive
“If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must picture God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. We come to the parts of the line one by one: we have to leave A behind before we get to B, and cannot reach C until we leave B behind. God, from above or outside or all round, contains the whole line, and sees it all.”
“If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“If you pile lie upon lie the pile gets so high the truth is obscured.”
Source: Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS
“If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.”
“If you piss your pants, you can only stay warm for so long.”
“If you pitch your movie to someone and they say, "Oh, please, don't make that. No one would see it." Do it! Because that means you may have something that's not the norm.”
“If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.”
“If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.”
Source: Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith
“If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.”
“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
“If you plagiarize others' techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero.”
“If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.”