Y Quotes
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“You can market your ass off, but if your product sucks, you're dead.”
“You can marry outside of your race, but never marry outside of your values.”
“You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?"”
“You can marry the right person today, yet be married to the wrong person someday … without having married again.”
“You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.”
“You can massacre my soul," he offered. I shuddered at his grammatical incomprehension of permission and knew full well I didn't need his to do just that.”
Source: Screaming into Pillows
“You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.”
“You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear me. But it's no good, because I know you can't.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“You can measure a man by the inches lost in his failures, or you can measure a man by the miles forged in his refusal to give up despite the pain of the inches.”
“You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.”
“You can measure a man's worth by the breed of person he throws out of his office.”
“You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.”
“You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you get off work?' 'Around 3 miles.'”
“You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin' the movie whenever they see it. That's what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them.”
“You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.”
Source: How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Part III
“You can measure the depth of a person's awakening by how they serve others”
“You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“You can measure the joy in a person’s life by the amount of joy they invest in others.”
Source: Dare To Live Greatly: The Courage To Live A Powerful Christian Life
“You Can Measure The Mentality of A Warmonger, By The Meanings Of The Words, They Wrongly Mince!”
“you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself”
Source: Reflections of a Man
“You can measure your power in your ability to stop thought. The longer you can stop thought, the more powerful you are.”
“You can meditate even while chopping carrots: The metal of knife has come from Earth, carrots have come from Earth, body is nothing but refined Earth. It's all a dance of Earth and you are the eternal watcher, the soul.”
“You can meditate upon this beautiful burgundy-colored teardrop gemstone and know you are the God Gem. It’s a place of wholeness where one can experience their divinity, their completeness and know their absolute perfection. Even if someone is covered by troubles, they will discover their good actions and thoughts are the pure gem underneath.” ~ Kuan Yin”
Source: Kuan Yin Buddhism:: The Kuan Yin Parables, Visitations and Teachings
“You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.”
“You can meet extraordinary people all over the world, especially in places you thought you would never meet!”
“You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea what's going on and they don't know anyone's name around them.”
“You can meet people who are really beautiful. Then, when you see them angry for the first time, all of a sudden they're not beautiful anymore. They didn't just step into the other room and have plastic surgery; they're still the same physically. It's just that something inside of them has changed. They're no longer attractive.”
“You Can Meet Someone Who Can Change Your Life In The Space Of A Year, In The Space Of A Month Or A Week.”
“You can meet someone who’s just right, but he might not be meant for you. You break up, you lose things, you never feel the same again. But maybe you should stop questioning why. Maybe you should just accept it and move on.”
Source: Melbourne: Rewind
“You can memorize your way through a labyrinth if it is simple enough and you have the time and urge to escape. But the learning is of no use for the next time when the exit will be differently placed.”
Source: The Informed Vision: Essays on Learning and Human Nature
“You can mess me around and I can research your illegal activities.”
“You can mess with a lot of things, but you can't mess with kids on Christmas.”
“You can microwave a Pop Tart. That just blew me away that you could do that. How long does it take to toast a Pop Tart? A minute and a half if you want it dark? People don't have that kind of time? Listen, if you need to zap-fry your Pop Tarts before you head out the door, you might want to loosen up your schedule.”
“You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.”
“You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.”
“You can miss a day or two and you will not be set back to zero. An omission is not a license to cheat or keep failing. Your habit-in-formation is not so fragile that it requires perfection. If you miss a day or fall off the wagon, don’t despair. Instead, use it as an opportunity to make your context tighter, stronger, and clearer.”
Source: Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick
“You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.”
Source: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
“You can miss a person you've never known.”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“You can miss places. You can miss people.
Just know that what you’re really missing is the way things were. And even if you could go there again…. see them again…. you can’t go back.
They’re not the same.
You’re not the same.
The loss of them changed you.”
“You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.”
“You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting”
“You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.”
“You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.”
“You can mourn your own changes, too. That you are no longer the person you used to be is, in my opinion, a good reason for mourning. It can be a cause for celebration, sometimes, too. But you can always give who you once were a send-off, a memorial, before you move on from them.”
Source: Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations
“You can move beyond the ego's perspective and see reality from the perspective of a higher consciousness.”
“You can move in and through the astral worlds once you have gained control of your subtle body. The astral worlds are the back corridors of eternity!”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.”
“you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.”