I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Instead of laying a red carpet for yourself to walk on, lay a bridge and let the young people walk over to you.”
Source: How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church
“Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.”
“Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.”
“Instead of leasing buildings in a traditional manner to multiple larger tenants, coworking companies lease entire structures and then sell these leases at a higher rate to members, a/k/a tenants. A change in use, not physical form. Combine that with the intangibles of inventive branding and experiential activation, and you’ve transformed one of the largest industries in the world—commercial real estate—sim- ply by changing the way people perceive it.”
Source: The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
“Instead of letting others the power to decide our failures or our success, every decision that we take will impact the life of someone, let's be responsible of our lives.”
“Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better”
“Instead of letting our emotions run amok with our minds, we can use our minds as tools that allow us to build realities that serve us better,
and we attract what we are meant to attract because we are aware and self-empowered enough to choose most of the time.”
“Instead of letting technology control me, I began to ask: ‘What is the purpose of this tool, and how does it serve my well-being?”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Instead of letting your attention be misdirected, seek out uplifting and inspiring content that nourishes your mind and spirit. Just as a negative focus can drag us down, a positive one has the power to lift us up.
When we choose to emphasize gratitude, love, joy and
various other types of empowering wavelengths, we create an upward spiral of positive emotions and experiences.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Instead of limiting your imagination by current circumstances and constraints, imagine a world in which some key constraints don't exist, and ask yourself how you or your institution might respond.”
Source: Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving
“Instead of linking an active life and an affirmative thinking, thought gives itself the task of judging life, opposing to it supposedly higher values, measuring it against these values, restricting and condemning it. And at the same time that thought thus becomes negative, life depreciates, ceases to be active, is reduced to its weakest forms, to sickly forms that are alone compatible with the so-caIled higher values. It is the triumph of "reaction" over active Iife and of negation over affirmative thought.”
Source: Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life
“Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.”
“Instead of loaves of bread, many times God gives out handfuls of purpose.”
“Instead of looking at accommodations as a barrier, an inconvenience, see those shifts and changes as getting one step closer to all the compromises being made every minute of the day by a person with autism.”
Source: Serving Teens and Adults on the Autism Spectrum: A Guide for Libraries
“Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.”
Source: Original Goodness: Elknath Easwaran on the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount
“Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.”
“Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings, magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go.”
“Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.”
“Instead of looking at the screen, what I want to do is to turn around and look the other way. When we look the other way what we see is a little hole at the top of the wall with some light coming out. That's where I want to go. I want to steal the key to the projectionist's booth, and then, when everybody has gone home, I want to break in.”
“Instead of looking at the things, look into the blank space around and within them... Acknowledge the blank surface on which words are written... acknowledge the nothingness that contains everything. Soon you will start experiencing the silence amidst all the noise.”
“Instead of looking at things, examining them critically and asking ourselves whether they are really sane, whether they are harmful or destructive, whether they will really bring us peace of mind and a good night’s sleep, we just let ourselves go with the flow of what others are doing.”
Source: 2020 Vision
“Instead of looking at what's depressing, look at what's a blessing.”
“Instead of looking back in anger or fear to analyze where we went wrong or how a bit of courage could have altered the course of events, we should look around for awareness to ensure that our past actions don’t become a habit.”
“Instead of looking for a true friend become a true friend.”
“Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you will always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you, gazing on you kindly.”
“Instead of looking for love, let it happen by being the best
you that you can be.”
Source: Passion Profit Power
“Instead of looking for one specific market gap, think much more big picture about what kind of market you want to be in for the long run.”
Source: StartUp Saboteurs: How Incompetence, Ego, and Small Thinking Prevent True Wealth Creation
“Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.”
“Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.”
“Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.”
“Instead of looking in the mirror and focusing on your flaws, look in the mirror and appreciate your best features... everyone has them.”
“Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.”
“Instead of losing ourselves in a mental load of constant pleasing, let us take the time to appreciate ourselves and cultivate our values. Nurturing our core values allows us to lead authentic lives and build resilience, confidence, and a sense of self. ("Axelle Red" )”
“Instead of losing your grain over silly things, better yourself, and also aim to inspire others to become better beings. That is how you overcome yourself and the world while keeping your feet on the ground.”
“Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky-the religion of this world-the religion of the family-the love of husband for wife, of wife for husband-the love of all for children. So that now the real religion is: Let us live for each other; let us live for this world without regard for the past and without fear for the future. Let us use our faculties and our powers for the benefit of ourselves and others, knowing that if there be another world, the same philosophy that gives us joy here will make us happy there.”
Source: Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works
“Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.”
“Instead of loving the Trinity of God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), we tend to love a different trinity: Me, myself, and I.”
“Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.”
“Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.”
“Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a bady's beshattered diaper, as one might pinch a recently benutted condom. You glance at the offending passages. Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.”
“Instead of lullabies, my mother would sing us songs of the Revolution. Now she sings them to her grandchildren. 'Are you nuts?' I ask her. She replies, 'I don't know any other songs.”
Source: Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
“Instead of lying to children about fairytales and superstitions, we should be teaching them not to be gullible. A child can be taught to be intelligent, maybe even more than an adult.”
“Instead of making a resolution to learn how to code in 2013, you might make a resolution to learn how to draw.”
“Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Instead of making Friday The 13th, Part VIII or whatever, I was making the girl-meets-boy, girl-meets-girl-dressed-as-boy movie. It was fun. I liked it. It's goofy. I look back at myself and think, "What the hell was I doing?"”
“Instead of making impetuous decisions or snap judgments, we must step back, sometimes, and grant ourselves time for slow thinking, allowing critical thinking to open deadlocks and clear up clouds dimming our journey. ("The postman always rings twice")”
“Instead of making resolutions for next year, to have a better new year actually look back at last year. Assess what went right and what went wrong and what you learned. Analyze the mistakes you could have avoided and what you can change. Then make those changes.”
“Instead of making the children do good behaviors by threatening to punish them if they don't, the teachers watch the children until they spontaneously do a good thing and give them rewards to reinforce the behavior and make them more likely to do that behavior again in the future.”
Source: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
“Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact.”