I Quotes
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“If you start a task, then finish it
Or else the task will finish you”
“If you start acting and you start thinking about and worrying about what other people are going to say about it, you'll never really fully commit to who it is and what it is that you're playing.”
“If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.”
“If you start at one point on a Möbius strip and you follow it straight around, when you’ve done the full loop, you don’t end up back where you started. You end up right above it, but on the other side of the surface. And if you keep following it around for a second time, you’ll finally end up where you started. So it’s this path that’s actually twice as long as it should be. At the time, I guess we thought it meant that the two of us added up to something bigger than we were on our own.”
Source: Beach Read
“If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.”
“If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people." "A zillion?" "Even a zillion. A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it's hungry." "Like Cimmamum?" "Even hungrier. You keep feeding it more and more people, and the more it gets, the more it wants. It's never satisfied. And pretty soon it squeezes all the love out of your heart"--I pointed to her heart; she looked down at her chest--"and all you'll have left is a hateful heart.”
“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.”
“If you start eating with your mouth open - I can't stand it! I was out to dinner with a girl, and she started chomping on her food. You could see everything she was eating. I was like, 'So when do you want to go home?'”
“If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.”
“If you start Forrest Gump at exactly 10:38:57 PM on New Years Eve, you can ring in the new year with Lieutenant Dan.”
Source: 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
“If you start freaking out, call me and we’ll go for a walk. Or we’ll ride the night buses. We’ll smoke some pot and get the giggles and eat a whole bag of chips. We’ll walk up and down the alleys looking for treasure and avoiding skunks. Any of those things. None of those things. Whatever you can think of. In fact, you don’t even have to think about all the silly things. I can do that too. Your girlfriend will be in charge of distractions.”
Source: 10 Things I Can See From Here
“If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.”
“If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable.”
“If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day.”
“If you start getting yourself into just doing stuff for the money, even if it's a desperate situation, I just firmly believe that if you stick it out through that, then something right will come down the path.”
“If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it's going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don't say, "Oh, my jeans don't fit," or "Oh, I was bad." No diets. Nothing like that.”
“If you start having a society where people are policing their own thoughts, now we’re back in Salem, Massachusetts, where literally, they didn’t do anything for fun, and then that pressure built up and they all went nuts.”
Source: End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free
“If you start hustling then don't pay a person what they deserve, pay them what they accept. That's good business. Even if you're not hustlin' pay them what they accept because you can capitalize off of people.”
“If you start identifying your inner self with the spirit of pure potentiality then you are aligning with the power that helps in the manifestation of all energy in the form of matter.”
Source: Be First: Achieve Every Dream
“If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.”
“If you start keeping track of your thoughts and write them down, you’ll find that most of the time, you are either thinking ahead or looking back.”
Source: Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
“If you start looking at movies on a moral level - "I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad" - then I don't even want to talk to you. Or like, someone that says "I don't like science-fiction movies," or "I don't want to sit through a Western," or "I don't like violence in movies," then I completely tune out.”
“If you start losing people used to be close to you, then you probably should reconsider yourself.”
“If you start low, don't worry, all the greats started low.”
“If you start most of your sentences with 'Why Can't', 'Why Not', or 'What if', you'll build a stronger imagination.”
Source: Scratch
“If you start moving it for later and for other "period" in life action… then you really fucked up.”
“If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.”
“If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.”
“If you start out with a song sounding like Britney Spears, and you end up with a song sounding like Pauline Oliveros, you'd better have pretty good liner notes explaining what on earth you mean.”
“If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.”
“If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.”
“If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.”
“If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.”
“If you start paying attention to Tom Hanks, you realize that he's not the Jimmy Stewart of our age. He's a very nice man. Everyone that I know that knows him says he's a great father. But, let's not pretend that he's something that he's not. He's just like George Clooney. He's a very radical leftist.”
“If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation.”
“If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today”
“If you start praising your wife, if you start telling her how beautiful she is, and how glad you are to have her in your life, when you talk about the good, you will draw out the good. If you talk about the negative, you'll draw out the negative. It's up to you.”
Source: Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day
“If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.”
Source: On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton
“If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.”
“If you start sweet, then you've got somewhere to go.”
“If you start taking yourself more seriously than you do God then there's a problem.”
“If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.”
“If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.”
Source: Love Is the Higher Law
“If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.”
“If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.”
“If you start thinking about stats it can get too complicated and you just have to go out there and play your game.”
“If you start thinking about stuff and how it all might be connected, then you start thinking about things like fate and destiny and the bigger picture and what’s the meaning of all this and what’s your part in it and where do people go when they die, and none of these are things I ever intend to think about.”
Source: The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World
“If you start thinking about the kids being born now, for them the computer is ancient history. So one imagines that when children think of it as the only place to be, because there isn't anywhere else, then the geniuses of those generations will find their way into doing something that is impressive and as good as a Shakespeare or a Cervantes. But nowadays, we can't see that. We're not close enough to it yet.”
“If you start thinking about who's going to read it [you're writing], or what grade will you get, or is it going to win that award, or are you going to get into this graduate program, you're blocking the light, and the light is that guidance and love we get when we open up our hearts and are guided by our higher selves, or God, or the Buddha Lupe [Buddha and the Virgin of Guadalupe fused together, as they are in the tattoo on Sandra's right arm], or whatever you believe in, or love.”