“How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf.” IfsWayPlayAsksWifeDependsGolfMy WifeAsk MeCricket Author:Ricky Ponting
“Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.” IfsThinkingFeelsLooksChildrenImportantHomeMotherAsksParentEmotionalDependsPicksFulfilledStay At HomeEmotional LifePlath Author:Ayelet Waldman
“The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.” PersonsDoeWholeFaithAsksReligiousLibertyDependsGloryPrejudiceExpectedRationalChiefsJustifyJustificationReligious FaithReligious LibertyReligious PersonGod Delusion Book:The God Delusion Source: The God Delusion
“The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor's own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.” IfsValuesAsksAnswersAttitudeSecurityDependsValuableInvestorsAnalystsRight Questions Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask; on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.” AgeAsksAnswersQualityDependsSurvivalSeriesSurvivorCorrectness Author:Margaret Mead
“Where there are problems, there are angels hovering about just waiting for us to ask them to help us transform our suffering into blessings. I'm not being religious, I'm telling you the truth as I have experienced it. ... And I'm not being trendy either. I was talking to angels long before they got fashionable. ... So maybe you don't believe in angels, that's all right, they don't care. They're not like Tinkerbell, you know, they don't depend on your faith to exist. A lot of people didn't believe the earth was round either, but that didn't make it any flatter.” PeopleKnowsBelieveLongHelpingProblemCareEarthSufferingAsksWaitingReligiousTalkingDependsBlessingAngelRoundsDon't BelieveDon't CareFashionableTrendyHoveringTinkerbell Author:Nancy Pickard
“Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. ... Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.” PeopleKnowsWayLongIdeasAsksBeliefCausesChallengesJusticeKnowingInformationMovementDependsOrdinaryAbuseActivismChecksLoudEducateSocial ChangeOrdinary PeopleKnowing The Truth Author:Unita Blackwell
“A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or to those who present government as the place where one feathers his own nest, [or] exchanges favors with friends and former associates.” GivingSelfGovernmentLawAsksInterestDependsCitizensDegreesFavorsFormerOfficialsMutualExpensesDedicatedAssociatesFeathersSelf InterestNestsRule Of LawFree SocietyGeneral PublicPublic InterestMutual Trust Author:Archibald Cox
“If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do.” PeopleIfsKnowsIdeasMatterEnoughFactsHelpingWantedAsksDifficultKnowingDependsProjectsOrganizationObviousSpreadAgentsAlternativesCommodityKnowing ThingsTravel Agent Author:Seth Godin
“If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do with Jesus Christ...It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.” IfsWantFeelsFirstsHeartDoeImportantMomentsAsksJesusGivenChristPrayerDependsPrayingJesus ChristContraryWant UPsalms Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“You see everything depends upon the psychological headquarters from which we live. 'Where am I living from?' Ask yourself that question. If you don't like your headquarters, you can move any time you like. Break away. Don't tell anyone about it. Others will either smile tolerantly or mouth sanctimonious babble. Make your escape plans in secret. Never mind if you lose certain friends, you will find others who also have dared. They will be ten-thousand times more valuable to you.” IfsMindMovingCertainAsksLosesSecretBreakPlansLike YouDependsThousandTenMouthsValuablePsychologicalHer SmileHeadquartersSanctimonious Author:Vernon Howard
“If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?” IfsKindSelfBodyAsksDangerousDependsHealthyGainsPainfulSelf ConfidenceOperationsExpensiveBreastsImplantsHealthy BodyBreast Implants Author:Katha Pollitt