I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.”
Source: Zen and creative management
“Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.”
“Instead of taking a year off, I started Dreamers of the Day exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for A Thread of Grace to the publisher!”
“Instead of taking care to acquaint ourselves with others, we only think of making ourselves known to them. It would be better to listen to other people in order to become enlightened rather than to speak so as to shine in front of them.”
“Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.”
“Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.”
“Instead of taking full advantage of having eight women at once, I spent all my time trying to find a real girlfriend.”
“Instead of taking the 'I'm cool, I hope you adore me' path (with my music), I chose the path of how to connect. I think that's the reason a lot of people feel a deeper connection with our band than other bands, and I also feel that's why people polarize on us. If you don't get it, it seems preposterous; if you do get it, it's really heavy - it has a weight to it.”
“Instead of talking about accomplishments, we are talking about stupidity and intelligence reporting that is based on facts that's not coming out of the actual heads of these intelligence agencies. And we are sitting here talking about it. And it is a shame, and it needs to end.”
“Instead of talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, we must end the absurdity of corporations not paying a nickel in federal income taxes.”
“Instead of talking about the fact that Hillary Clinton violated about 40 federal laws we are talking about this [that this president's Barack Obama is legitimately elected president of the United States and you say your candidate agrees with you]. It is ridiculous.”
“Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.”
“Instead of talking in the hope that people will listen, try listening in the hope that people will talk.”
“Instead of talking yourself out of your future start talking yourself into it.”
“Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.”
“Instead of teaching African children about Napoleon or Shakespeare, teach them about Biko, Nkrumah, Sallasie, Annan, etc.”
“Instead of teaching kids to memorize the answers to predetermined questions, we must inspire them to come up with their own questions.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“Instead of telling God about your big problems, tell your problems about your big God.”
“Instead of telling God how big your problems are, tell your problem how BIG your God is.”
“Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.”
“Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied.”
“Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.”
“Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life - tell them who God is.”
“Instead of telling your friend, “I’m not going with you to the game,” say, “I’ll catch you after the game.” In other words, put your focus on the positive while creating the boundary you need.”
Source: The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes
“Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.”
Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815
“Instead of the 1997 film directed, written, by James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane creating a love story and a large diamond with a beautiful song “My Heart Will Go On” sung by Celine Dion. What about the real love story that took place that night between the passengers themselves, and many crew members knowing they would also give their lives. Adding another meaning for “SOS” Service, Obedience, and Sacrifice.”
“Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.”
Source: Greater South Africa: plans for a better world
“Instead of the birds of the sky and beast of the field, the gods were more than men because Man needed them to be, for what could the world be if Man were the best of all creatures?”
Source: Flies to Wanton Boys
“Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.”
Source: The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass
“Instead of the calendrical terms Monday, Tuesday and so forth, we cheerfully offer the following surrogates. Use them freely and often, for their use honors us all. For Sunday, please use Sunshine. For Monday. pleasy use Monty. For Tuesday, please use Toes. For Wednesday, please use Wetty. For Thursday, please use Thurby. For Friday, please use Fribs. For Saturday, please use Satto-gatto.”
Source: Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
“Instead of the capacity to experience himself from the inside out, he seeks a desperate union with an external source of abundance, which he thinks will complete him. The price of his delusion is death. Unable to eat or sleep, like a severe addict in the final stages of obsession he wastes. With no capacity to speak her own words, Echo records and reiterates Narcissus's every sigh. If he is a reflection, she is the reflection of his reflection, the shadow of his shadow. Narcissus loses sensation, and the result is fatal paralysis. Echo loses her voice, and the result is also paralysis. Neither is capable of authentic relationship.”
Source: I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
“Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it.”
“Instead of the church’s lessons helping women to participate in loving, mutual relationships, they perpetuate singleness and unfulfilled partnerships because the men in our lives desire confident women who are able to play with the possibilities of sexual engagement.”
Source: Who Told You That You Were Naked?
“Instead of The Closet, I’d like to propose a more humane metaphor. What if we talk about queer/trans people “coming out of our shells”? When you think about it, us queers are a lot like garden snails anyway. We love flowers. We have beautiful, curly shells. We are slimy and understand the power of proper lubrication. We leave a shiny, glittering trail wherever we go. And did you know that most snails are gender-neutral and play both “male” and “female” roles in procreation? That many snails change gender multiple times throughout the course of their lives?”
“Instead of the education system banning ChatGPT from schools, the focus should be geared towards educating students on how to properly use AI tools.
Schools should be at the forefront of innovation and technological progress NOT a place for preserving obsolete learning methods and clinging onto archaic practices that are no longer relevant for the world we live in.”
Source: Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted
“Instead of the final judgement, what worries me is the final dream.”
“Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.”
“Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.”
“Instead of the Government spending $400,000 on immunisation, we may get far better health outcomes if we spend $100,000 in some other way, on nutrition for example...When you have an expenditure on getting your community healthier, then the resistance to many childhood diseases is stronger.”
“Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all; and further, that unavoidable suffering—such as hunger in times of an unavoidable shortage of food—should be distributed as equally as possible.”
Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies
“Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style”
“Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.”
“Instead of the mahi mahi, may I just get the one mahi because I’m not that hungry.”
“Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that feels and sounds good, and sometimes you only hear the trumpet or just the bass and piano. Sometimes all four are playing at the same time, but perhaps at different volume.”
“Instead of the Negro leaders having the black man begging for a chance to - to dine in white restaurants, the Negro leader should be showing the black man how to do something to strengthen his own economy.”
“Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic society, in which the leaders think and make decisions for everyone, we will become a country of intelligent, free and responsible people.”
“Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do"”
Source: The Empire of Business
“Instead of the sterile language of resumes, we need a language for contributions that captures the humanity of what we do—that expresses how we draw on our human talents to make contributions to people, not just to companies.”
Source: Life's Great Question: Discover How You Contribute To The World
“Instead of the terror of indecision and the fear of oneself, empathy for all living creatures and respect for nature can help us to save the world. As we let the waves of good vibrations flow into our minds, we inspire others and awaken their integrity. ("'My radio ")”
“Instead of the unity of worshiping one Supreme God, they sought division, the trinity. Here come the greatest mathematicians of all time, not three gods, but one. 1+1+1=1”