I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.”
“Instead of seeing how much pain I can dish out towards those I disagree with, or who I believe have done me wrong, I seek to follow the golden rule and use my words and behavior to create more of what the world needs – love, compassion, and connection.”
“Instead of seeing in which way
you should take on your travels,
observe and examine each day
all the beauty your eye unravels...”
Source: A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
“Instead of seeing opportunities as fixed and finite, we can see opportunities as flexible and growable.”
Source: Your Year of Wonders: Embrace Change. Grow Faster. Win Bigger.
“Instead of seeing sense there is a major tendency to 'make sense.”
Source: Empire of Scientism: The Dispiriting Conspiracy and Inevitable Tyranny of Scientocracy
“Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet.”
“Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.”
“Instead of seeing what was wrong with my backhand, I just started observing, and improvement seemed to happen on its own.”
“Instead of seeking complete detachment, perhaps we should choose our desires and addictions wisely only.”
“Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.”
“Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.”
“Instead of seeking to pinpoint blame, seek to understand cause.”
“Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.”
“Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet. It is not by proselytizing that the Church grows, but by attraction.”
Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“Instead of selling to your customers, help them buy.”
“Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.”
“Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.”
“Instead of setting goals, seek defining moments. Those are the real tests, because you have to be willing to fail in a pressure situation in front of other people.”
“Instead of sharing my inner thoughts with others, I tend to keep them to myself. I don't want to put a burden on anyone else with my feelings, so I usually just push them to the side and wait until they build up to the point of explosion. If I do open up to someone and share my emotions, it's a sign that I've been holding them in for too long.”
“Instead of shedding tears over the inevitable end of something special between us, let us choose to wear smiles, acknowledging that it occurred and that we possess a treasure trove of beautiful memories to hold dear. Let these memories illuminate our hearts, reminding us of the joy and connection we shared, even as we embrace new chapters in our lives.”
“Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.”
“Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.”
“Instead of showing up to let everyone know how great we are, show up to find out how great everyone else is.”
“Instead of showing visibly distinct alternate identities, the typical DID patient presents a polysymptomatic mixture of dissociative and posttraumatic stressdisorder (PTSD) symptoms that are embedded in a matrix of ostensibly non-trauma-related symptoms (e.g., depression, panic attacks, substance abuse,somatoform symptoms, eating-disordered symptoms). The prominence of these latter, highly familiar symptoms often leads clinicians to diagnose only these comorbid conditions. When this happens, the undiagnosed DID patient may undergo a long and frequently unsuccessful treatment for these other conditions.
- Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision, p5”
“Instead of showing you how to build courage," I wrote in response to someone asking me how to be brave, "I write to you to pay tribute to and salute your courage. I embrace your courage. I lie down every night living your courage. When I am in need of purpose of focus I thank your courage. Courage is not an ongoing thing that you walk around feeling ever day. Like anything in life, it comes and goes with the challenges we meet every day of our lives!”
Source: Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
“Instead of showing you how to build courage," I wrote in response to someone asking me how to be brave, "I write to you to pay tribute to and salute your courage. I embrace your courage. I lie down every night loving your courage. When I am in need of purpose of focus I thank your courage. Courage is not an ongoing thing that you walk around feeling ever day. Like anything in life, it comes and goes with the challenges we meet every day of our lives!”
Source: Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
“Instead of shutting ourselves off in fear, becoming victims—part of the problem—we became a solution.”
Source: Billionaire Blend
“Instead of sidewalks, why not sideruns? After all, the pace of life is faster than it has ever been, so I think our infrastructure’s nomenclature should reflect that.”
Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“Instead of simply teaching our sons that girls are meant to be protect, we need to get them excited about helping to to create a world where girls don't have to be afraid anymore. We need to make it very clear to our sons that they are not just doing women a favor by standing up against sexism. They are actually fighting for a stronger, smarter, kinder world, one that is possible only if women are treated equally. Let's raise incredible guys who will know their worth as decent, responsible men and capable, involved, loving dads.”
Source: Hold On, But Don't Hold Still
“Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“Instead of sitting around the house & acting like it’s the end of the world when you go through a breakup. Live your life, you’re not promised tomorrow. There is nothing you can change that has already been done. Just know that she/he lost you, you didn’t lose anything.”
“Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.”
“Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.”
“Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems - the kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others.”
Source: Blind Conceit: Politics, Policy and Racial Polarization: Moving Forward to Save America
“Instead of speaking about Real Madrid, Mr Wenger should speak about Arsenal and explain how he lost 2-0 against a team in the Champions League for the first time [Braga]. The history about the young kids is getting old now. Sagna, Clichy, Walcott, Fabregas, Song, Nasri, Van Persie, Arshavin are not kids. They are all top players.”
“Instead of speaking and writing majority needs to learn and understand first.”
“Instead of speaking of beliefs, one must actually speak of truths, and that these truths were themselves products of the imagination. We are not creating a false idea of things. It is the truth of things that through the centuries has been so oddly constituted. Far from being the most simple realistic experience, truth is the most historical.
There was a time when poets and historians invented royal dynasties all of a piece, complete with the name of each potentate and his genealogy. They were not forgers, nor were they acting in bad faith. They were simply following what was, at the time, the normal way of arriving at the truth.
[...] I do not at all mean to say that the imagination will bring future truths to light and that it should reign; I mean, rather, that truths are already products of the imagination and that the imagination has always governed. It is imagination that rules, not reality, reason, or the ongoing work of the negative.”
Source: Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?
“Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.”
“Instead of spending money, I earned it.”
“Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can be helped and guided and set straight - we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.”
Source: No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
“Instead of spending your dear energy on hating enemies,
Utilize this energy to love your friends a little harder truly.
[229] - 4 (Thoughts)”
Source: Eddies of Life
“Instead of spreading antagonism or hate, try to make a positive remark about something.”
“Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.”
“Instead of standing on a stage each day, dispensing knowledge to my young charges, I should guide them as they approach their own understandings.”
Source: The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
“Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.”
Source: Human energy
“Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.”
“Instead of staying strong and working through when times are really tough, I usually quit this recipe for failure and start a whole new recipe. So if something is too challenging, I tend to chalk it up as not a good fit, and move on to something else.”
“Instead of stocks investors should invest in blankets, that way they’ll at least have something to keep them warm after they’ve lost all their money when the company goes under.”
Source: A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket
“Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?”
“Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.”
Source: The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí