I Quotes
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“if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.”
Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett
“If you wish to transform, pretend this day until it is so.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”
“If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants”
“If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.”
“If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.”
Source: Les Misérables
“If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.”
Source: Essays in Psychical Research
“If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.”
“If you wish to worship the lord, do so with love, not terror - if you desire to practice faith, let that faith be guided by tenderness, not bitterness - if you want others to understand your outlook, use friendliness, not force.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.”
“If you wish to write, write.”
“If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.”
Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…
“If you wish, you may. If you want, you can. If you are determined, you will.”
“If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“If you wish your soul to prosper, pray.”
“If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.”
Source: The Hero and the Crown
“If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!”
“If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.”
Source: Towers of Midnight
“If you withdraw from the game, you're out of the game. And we have withdrawn from the game. And we said Bashar Assad has to go. He's going to stay. So we're out of the game.”
“If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.”
“If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.”
“If you witness (the problems in the world), your outlook on life will change. You will understand how fortunate and well-off you are, (…). You will understand that you are so safe from the risk of air raids and landmines.”
“If you witness something and stay silent, then remember your silence is indirectly supporting their actions.”
“If you woke before dawn one morning with the formula for a vaccine, which would cure the most ghastly disease currently known to man, releasing millions from an agonising death, would you roll over and resume sleeping until daylight?”
Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
“If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?”
“If you woke up that’s a reason to celebrate.”
“If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, "Why is someone punching me in the face?" But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.”
“If you women continue to demand your choice to work, you will so upset the economy of this country that the time will come when you will not have a choice. You will have to work.”
“If you won’t allow someone to evaluate what you are saying or give you feedback when you prophesy to him, then you are essentially saying you are more important and have more authority, wisdom, and connection to what you are prophesying about than he does. That is the exact opposite goal of prophecy. Prophecy is supposed to connect people to the world around them and the God who loves them, not place you in the center of the equation.”
Source: Translating God: Hearing God's Voice For Yourself And The World Around You
“If you won't be my friend, you'll regret being my enemy”
“If you won't do it now, you can do it never.”
“If you won't face the truth... then face me. Face the suffering you've caused for the people you love... The pain of knowing what you've lost... And the hatred of yourself for being too cowardly to change anything about it... Let those feelings devour you here... until your insides rot.”
“If you won't get your hands dirty, Doctor, we'll have to force you to get them dirty.”
Source: Beast Machine
“If you won’t go to invest in your promise land and gift you will be mocked”
“If you won't stand up against those who tear us apart with their lies, hate, and bigotry, expect to do a lot of sitting down.”
“If you won't take yourself seriously,
why would anyone else?
If you can't love yourself madly,
how could anyone else?”
“If you won’t trust yourself, nobody else will.”
“If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?”
“If you won't believe in yourself, who will?”
“If you won't improve yourself, who will?”
“If you won't leave me, I'll find someone who will.”
“If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“If you wonder how long Ill be faithful. I'll be happy to tell you again. I'm gonna love you forever & ever, forever & ever amen.”
“If you wonder how you'll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you've been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you'd never get through it. But you did. And look where you're at now. This too shall pass!”
“If you wonder what getting and keeping the right employees has to do with getting and keeping the right customers, the answer is everything.”
“If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them.”
“If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.”
“If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.”
“If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.”
“If you won’t marry me for the sake of your own honor, then do it for the sake of everyone who would have to tolerate me otherwise. Marry me because I need someone who will help me to laugh at myself. Because someone has to teach me how to whistle. Marry me, Lillian… because I have the most irresistible fascination for your ears.”