I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.”
“Instead of calling plastic décor fake-- or it's fancy sister, faux-- I refer to it as pretend. It's pretend because using it and believing it's real is a workout for the imagination. We all know there's no way those tulips could survive the night in the wreath on the front door, so we are all silently agreeing to pretend together.”
Source: Welcome Home: A Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating and Hosting All Year Round
“Instead of casting aspersions at the process, why don’t you redirect your energy towards something more advantageous, like finally completing the Program!”
Source: The Thin Blue Line: Perception is Deception
“Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.”
“Instead of causes, biology is repeatedly about propensities, potentials, vulnerabilities, predispositions, proclivities, interactions, modulations, contingencies, if/then clauses, context dependencies, exacerbation or diminution of preexisting tendencies. Circles and loops and spirals and Möbius strips.”
Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.”
“Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that they don't "stick out." This unwittingly stomps out individuality and encourages conformity, despite these parents' good intentions”
Source: How Full Is Your Bucket? Educator's Edition: Positive Strategies for Work and Life
“Instead of celebrating with a cake (too full of poisonous refined sugars) and presents (too materialistic), my mother would come into my room at exactly 3:57 A.M. to tell me the story of my miraculous emergence into this world, as if it was some fairy tale. Although I supposed few fairy tales involved the words 'vaginal flowering'.”
Source: How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf
“Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.”
Source: Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“Instead of claiming to be the answer, consider stating that you may be an answer.”
“Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.”
Source: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“Instead of collecting things and staying in one space, I want to collect experiences.”
“Instead of command and control, managing the creative process is about facilitating and permitting.”
“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
Source: Correction: A Novel
“Instead of communicating "I love you, so let me make life easy for you," I decided that my message needed to be something more along these lines: "I love you. I believe in you. I know what you're capable of. So I'm going to make you work.”
Source: Cleaning House: A Mom's Twelve-Month Experiment to Rid Her Home of Youth Entitlement
“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”
“Instead of competing, all we have to do is create.”
Source: Earl Nightingale's
“Instead of complaining about problems in your stomach, mind what goes into your stomach to cause the problems in your stomach.”
“Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!”
“Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Instead of complaining about your job,
Remember that feeling of joy after receiving your first paycheck, and what promises you made to yourself.
Continue to reflect on that positive energy.”
“Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are. Instead of greedily desiring something more than the supply of his present need, he rejoices that God still cares for him. Such an one is "content" with such as he has (Heb. 13:5).”
Source: Comfort for Christians
“Instead of complaining, just feel bad for some time, then MOVE ON.”
“Instead of complaining of the problem, learn how to cope with it and live it and study it and discover their weaknesses and then smash it.
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عوض أن تشتكي من المشلكة تعلم كيف تتأقلم معها وتعيشها وتدرسها وتكتشف نقاط ضعفها ثم حطمها”
“Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.”
Source: Pensées
“Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.”
“Instead of concentrate and focus, relax and notice”
Source: The Simple Book of Infinity
“Instead of concentrating on the war against poverty, global attention is focused on another kind of slaughter - on something that is intangible and yet being tackled by all the possible military means we can muster. And all the lofty declarations by world leaders about combatting poverty that were lauded by the General Assembly turned out to be damp squibs.”
“Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up.”
“Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-pitying image of itself as the victimized nation, and went looking for scapegoats in the Roma, Jews, and, most recently, Syrian migrants.”
“Instead of considering my eternal salvation, I picked at my filthy fear as a hungry man picks a fowl's carcass.”
Source: As meat loves salt
“Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.”
“Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive?”
“Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here.”
Source: The Collected Regrets of Clover
“Instead of contemplating our experiences in an open and self-reflective manner, trying to sense their symbolic meaning in a way analogous to how a therapist analyzes dreams, we continuously search for external references in a futile quest to determine their ‘validity.’ In doing so, we close ourselves up to reality and proceed to tirelessly chase our own tails. You see, there is nothing more to the world than experience itself. What meaning can there be in trying to determine the ‘validity’ of an experience?”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment”
“Instead of convincing people who are opposed to your message, spend your time finding people who are already predisposed to it.”
“Instead of Coriander, I chose a French-style bistro, quiet and easy, where the server talked me into the braised rabbit, which arrived exquisitely tender in a gravy of such textured depth that I took out my notebook and scribbled a few notes on what I thought the ingredients might be. Thyme, rosemary, carrots, and parsley. Mushrooms and mustard and shallots.”
Source: The Art of Inheriting Secrets
“Instead of counting followers, focus on what the community can achieve through what you are doing.”
Source: Digital Retail Marketing: The Essential Guide to Low-Cost, Successful Content Marketing
“Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world.”
“Instead of creating aesthetically pleasing prose, you have to dig into a product or service, uncover the reasons why consumers would want to buy the product, and present those sales arguments in copy that is read, understood, and reacted to—copy that makes the arguments so convincingly the customer can’t help but want to buy the product being advertised.”
“Instead of creating expectations of what should or should not be happening, cooperate with the form that this moment takes.Bring a 'yes' to the isness, because it's pointless to argue if it already is.A greater intelligence is available to you when you no longer reject, deny, or 'don't want' what is.”
“Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.”
“Instead of criminal, women's bodies are inherently defective, aesthetically defective. To the body whose value is judged almost solely on aesthetics, it is a devastating sentence. We are too short, too tall, too fat, too thin, too dark, too stiff, too loose, too solicitous, too yielding, too assertive, too weak, or too strong.”
Source: Girlhood
“Instead of criticising people who are superior to you, learn from them and inculcate these superior qualities in your own life.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“Instead of criticizing each other, Let's applause, encourage, elevate & respect.”
“Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.”
“Instead of Criticizing Someone's Success, Why Not Learn Something Valuable from It?”