I Quotes
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“If your intention is to give, you will not be concerned with how your actions are perceived.”
“If your intentions are already bad, and then you still make giant mistakes, it seems like things just get worse. I get little joy seeing this, because what I don't see is the public saying, "Wow, those guys are really bad, maybe we should re-evaluate everything." I don't see that response with the scandals, I don't see it with the indictments, I don't see it after Katrina, I don't see the public going, "Wow, let's really re-examine the entire direction this country is going."”
“If your intentions are pure, if you apply your craft with a view to observe humanity and, ultimately, God himself, very often something powerful will surface.”
“If your intuition is telling you not to do something, then don't. Your intuition is not stupid.”
“If your investments are limited to this earth, you are the world's worst investor.”
“If your job does not allow you extra time to develop yourself and add value to yourself, then you are cutting yourself off from the possibilities of the future that is waiting for you”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER.”
“If your job is in control of your time, it is the job that is the owner of your life”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“If your job is inspiration you have to go at it at all costs.”
“If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You’ll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.”
“If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.”
Source: The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994
“If your job was remotely interesting, there would be a show on A&E about it.”
“If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.”
“If your Judge Imposter obscures your ability to see beyond surface glam, you never experience people for who they really are. I’ve also traveled enough to know two things about beauty: (1) It is truly in the eye of the beholder (along with the judgments in the beholder’s mind), and (2) it is informed by the culture you grew up in: what’s judged as beautiful in one culture might be bland or uninteresting in another”
“If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.”
“If your kid came to you while you were busy working and said, “Can you play video games with me?” you would say, “I’m sorry, I don’t have time.” But if they fell and broke their leg or had a nosebleed, you would make the time. You have the time in both instances, but on one occasion you decide it’s important enough to stop what you’re doing.”
Source: Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner
“If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.”
“If your kid goes to a therapist weekly, a peer grief group monthly, and a grief camp for a few days in the summer—which would be a lot of grief work, by the way—there are still somewhere around three hundred days in the year where it’s all on you, the widowed parent, to figure out what to do.”
Source: Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice
“If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“If your kids are consumers, which most of us raise our kids to be, because our culture raises us to be, then [passing inherited wealth] is a bad idea. We consume and eat and fill ourselves with every technological, sexual, cultural, societal, and emotional pleasure possible. That is the goal of life. And if that's our way of life, then yes, it's a horrible idea to give someone an asset, simply for them to consume and destroy it... In business, passing assets is seen in the opposite way. This is how you build really strong companies. Some of the strongest companies in the world have collected and built and expanded resources every generation. So why is it seen as a bad idea in families? Here's why: business still center themselves around mission, whereas modern families are built around consumption. When mission is the focus, then building to pass something on is the goal. And a great idea.... If you believe we are primarily meant to consume things, then resources become a burden - as they will only stuff that person with more and more. If you believe we are meant to produce things and steward things, then more resources should mean more mission and multiplication of what you're already doing.”
Source: Take Back Your Family: From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal
“If your kids are realizing that they descend from something, that's really great. The more you're able to inculcate that the greater amount of pride they're gonna have. That's incredible.”
“If your kids remember anything, it's the fact that you were there. You're gonna fail every day, you're gonna make mistakes, you're gonna do things wrong, but as long as you're there, they remember that. And I see that. Our kids are so young, but they know that we're at every basketball game. We take them with us to places, we engage them. It's not helicopter parenting we just keep them around us. It's that bond. If you lose that it's hard to get it back. I think by showing up, kids, they're always connected to you.”
“If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.”
“If your kitchen table is like mine, you sit there at night before you put the kids to bed and you talk about what you need. You talk about how much you are worried about being able to pay the bills. Ladies and gentlemen, that is not a worry John McCain has to worry about. It's a pretty hard experience. He'll have to figure out which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at.”
“If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”
“If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.”
“If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.”
“If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.”
“If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!”
“If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.”
“If your last words are somehow meant to encapsulate your entire existence, Liz finds um strangely appropriate. Um means nothing. Um is what you say while you're thinking of what you'll really say. Um suggests someone interrupted before they'd begun. Um is a fifteen-year-old girl who gets hit by a taxicab in front of a mall on the way to help pick out a prom dress for a prom she isn't even going to, for God's sake.”
Source: Elsewhere
“If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.”
“If Your Leaders Live in Luxury, Civilians Will Pay the Cost;
And If Civilians Live in Luxury, Leaders Will Pay the Cost.
So your leaders have chosen to live in luxury.”
Source: The Silent Crisis
“If your leaders want you to talk to them, consider them.
If your leaders want you to debate them,
regard them.
If your leaders want you to oppose them,
love them.
If your leaders want you to police them,
revere them.”
“If your leadership isn't all about you, it will live beyond you.”
“If your leg is in a cast, it's really dumb to sit in front of your computer doing unnecessary stuff with it hanging down. Your leg will swell and heal slower, if at all. When you go to your doctor, he/she will give you one of those "you're really dumb and self destructive" looks. Also, "Why didn't you follow my orders and rest?" Your doctor will be right, and so will mine at my next office visit. Elevate, folk! Elevate your mind, your soul, and your leg, in the order needed!”
Source: Numenon
“If your legs are strong it definitely gives you an advantage coming down hill. As far as specific workouts go, I get a kick out of sled pulls and driving the sled. I put a couple of 45 pound weights on it and just go until I can't feel my VMO muscles (Vastus Medialis Oblique.) That's the muscle right next to your knee, on the inside.”
“If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.”
“If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.”
Source: Medea
“If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.”
Source: Medea
“If your life becomes about death, are you still living?”
“If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.”
Source: The Art Of Happiness At Work
“If your life becomes work, what happens when your work becomes irrelevant?”
“If your life changes, we can change the world, too.”
“If your life consistently bears no fruit, God will intervene to discipline you. If your life bears some fruit, God will intervene to prune you. If your life bears a lot of fruit, God will invite you to abide more deeply with Him.”
“If your life could be transcribed into a song, the rights and wrongs, the ups and downs, the good and the bad, and the periods of turmoil and challenges, as much as the moments in which you felt high in the clouds, in love, in awe for all the good things happening to you, mesmerized with disbelief for the joys you were experiencing, all those things would be just and only sounds, perfectly arranged to formulate your own song, the song of your life. In the same way, you must see your friends, and enemies, and loved ones and strangers. For everything is made of frequencies, and everything comes to you in precise moments, to match other frequencies. Everything that happens to you is in a perfect arrangement of vibrations and coincidences. And the maestro of this song is you. You are creating all of that with your mind.”
“If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.”
“IF YOUR LIFE DOESN'T HAVE SOME RISK, YOU ARE SAFE'LY SIDELINED”
“If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.”