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“Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once. If he raises a fist; punches a hole in the wall; throws things at you; blocks your way; restrains you; grabs, pushes, or pokes you; or threatens to hurt you, that's physical abuse. He is creating fear and using your need for physical freedom and safety as a way to control you.”

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Bigs Values Economy Trouble Streets Creation Wall Creating Greed Small Business Big Business American Economy Creating Value

Author:Robert Herjavec

“The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.”

“I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness”

Ifs World Past Beautiful Lord Creating Various Seduction Thank You Lord

Book:The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998

Source: The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998

“The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all of our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product -- Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price -- Everything.”

Ifs Kind Dream Effort Company Achieve Products Creating Ultimate Sells Customers Selling Command Get Away Tolerate Employed

Author:Thomas Ligotti

“Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons within city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or other misdemeanor.”

Ifs Should War States Peace Cities Support Limits Creating Weapons Claims Murder Killing Refuse Protection Traffic Offense Anarchist Hazards Pacifist Misdemeanors

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Creating music to fit the marketplace, so that music can be heard? If ever I thought that I even came close to catering to the marketplace, or designing my productions and my music to cater to what is currently fashionable, I would sell shoes for a living. For me, the marketplace can rot in hell. I will do music for the love of music and for the love of people who listen to music, and absolutely nothing else will drive me.”

People Ifs Hell Heard Design Fit Creating Sells Shoes Productions Listening To Music Marketplace Fashionable Absolutely Nothing Music Love Catering Creating Music

Author:Daniel Lanois

“I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.”

Ifs Mind Next Opportunity Waiting Creating Dishes Clicks

Author:Paul Prudhomme

“Senator Kerry does not support our troops. If he had won the election, there wouldn't be any troops left in Iraq. President Bush, on the other hand, has given our troops an opportunity to fight without end. That's creating jobs. In fact, the president's policies helped create 104 more job openings last month. Now who's stupid, Senator?”

“When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.”

Ifs Way Trying Helping Problem Asks Difficult Failing Creating Solutions Solve Faster Try Again Difficult Problems

Author:Aza Raskin

“If a beach-head of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

“I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free trade, you had one or the other, you should always pick technological progress. I think it's an incredibly important variable for creating more prosperity.”

Ifs Thinking Should Important Choices Progress Creating Picks Trade Prosperity Favors Technological Versus Variables Free Trade Technological Progress

Author:Peter Thiel

“If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.”

Ifs Needs Important Ideas Action Order Responsibility Moral Destiny Mankind Creating Important Things Humanism Empowering Insult Ethical Our Destiny Maintaining Our Actions Framework

Author:Stephen Fry

“If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.”

Ifs Thinking Should Self Light Suffering Mistake Alive Creating Insight Making Mistakes Concentration Impermanence

Author:Nhat Hanh

“We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.”

Ifs Believe Wells Made God Evil Perfect Mistake Theory Creating Capable Devil Perfection Cancer Compelled Omnipotent Omniscient Epilepsy

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“What I was doing when I was creating my werewolves is really basing them on a wild wolf pack, as much as possible. It's not as if being bitten brings you in, but what it does is that it strengthens that instinct for pack. It strengthens that instinct to need to be with others who are like you, and to form tight bonds, as an actual wolf pack does.”

Ifs Needs Doe Form Like You Creating Instinct Packs Werewolf Wolf Packs

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.”

Ifs Trying Care Actors Stuff Behinds Design Creating Don't Care I Don't Care Designer Rapper Good Work Toothbrushes Cool Stuff

Author:Andre Benjamin

“When it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth. The technical sector is the backbone of the American economy, and if we start engaging in these kind of behaviors, in these kind of attacks, we're setting a standard, we're creating a new international norm of behavior that says this is what nations do. This is what developed nations do.”

Ifs Kind Earth Nations Loses Economy Behavior Creating Standards International Setting Settings Warfare Engaging Norm Backbone Cyber American Economy Cyber Warfare Developed Nations

Author:Edward Snowden

“If you're not creating, you're waiting.”

Ifs Waiting Creating

Author:Kevin Pollak

“I tell you this: You always get what you create, and you are always creating. I do not make a judgment about the creations that you conjure, I simply empower you to conjure more-and more and more and more. If you don't like what you've just created, choose again. My job, as God, is to always give you that opportunity.”

Ifs Inspirational Giving Jobs Opportunity Religious Creation Judgment Creating Empowering Conjuring

Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will, creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determines our future.”

Ifs Men Action Evil Destiny Fate Goodness Creating Determine Karma Reactions Free Will Our Future Our Actions Reap Totality Vedas Previous Life

Book:Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism

Source: Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism

“If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and joy - will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your "career" as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here.”

Ifs Feels Joy Stuff Growth Careers Creativity Subjects Creation Creating Intention Creator Missions Life Experience Quests Joyful Dominant Alignment Joyful Life Triads

Author:Esther Hicks

“If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.”

Ifs Men Creativity Creating Understood Being Different

Author:Esther Hicks

“It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film is just another expression, which is great. Because it translates so well because so many people see the work, if you're lucky.”

People Ifs Wells Art Different Done Film Music Creative Painting Expression Lucky Creating Enterprise Categories Translate Creating Something

Author:Robert Redford

“If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.”

Ifs Knows Looks Technology Products Creating Limitation New Products

Author:Homaro Cantu

“You're creating music to pull people into a world, whether it be a visual medium where music is just one element, or a purely musical medium. Either way, you're trying to transport people and to create a connection. I've always felt that the best films and the best albums can be the best company. If people feel a little bit less alone because of something I had a hand in creating than I feel like I'm contributing to the world in a positive way.”

“I try my jokes onstage. The only way to really find out if something is going to work is to try it on stage, and I try to be careful and bookend something new with a strong bit before and a strong bit afterwards. But it's fun to run on virgin snow. I like that feeling onstage of creating new footprints and not knowing what's going to happen.”

Ifs Way Trying Feelings Happens Running Strong Fun Bits Knowing Stage Creating Jokes Careful Snow Something New Be Careful Not Knowing Virgins Going To Work Footprint Bookends

Author:Brian Regan

“When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. If you're listening to a record and it's really hot, then you'll be looking for something that feels like that, or that has a version of it.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Trying Records Listening Creating Hot Hip Hop Stealing Versions Hips Hops Creating Music

Author:Curtis Jackson

“I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.”

Ifs Knows World Way Writing Book Different This World Reader Creating Mass Critical Objectives Different Ways Better Place Critical Mass

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Doing voice work is more like recording music that people are going to listen to. You're creating an oral experience using whatever bells and whistles you have in your voice, and you can shut your eyes and use your imagination and nobody's going to see if the faces you make don't match the voices you make. That's a lot of fun.”

People Ifs Use Eye Faces Fun Voice Imagination Creating Bells Recording Music

Author:Nick Offerman

“A temptation is the universe's gracious way of allowing a soul to evolve without creating negative karma. In other words, a temptation is like a magnet that draws to awareness, negativity, that would otherwise create negative karma if it remained unconscious. A temptation is a dress rehearsal for a negative karmic act.”

Ifs Way Soul Universe Awareness Creating Draws Negative Dresses Karma Temptation Evolve Unconscious Allowing Negativity Rehearsal Gracious Magnet Negative Karma

Author:Gary Zukav

“If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.”

Ifs Men Looks Can Do Situation Example He Man Revolution Creating Slavery Slave Seeds Greek

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“There are some people who want me and my husband to stay where it is safe and draw a paycheck every week instead of what we are doing (which is creating and sharing our art with others). The truth is that there are people in this world - Dave and I being two - who would die a slow painful death if stuck in an office and made to do the kind of work that we are not made to do.”

People Ifs World Want Kind Art Made Two Dies Week This World Truth Is Safe Husband Office Creating Draws Painful Stuck My Husband Want Me Paychecks Dave Painful Death

Author:Mary Engelbreit

“I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Comfort Creating Music Is Zone Comfort Zone Bizarre

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Of all the wonderful things government says, that's always been just about my favorite. As opposed to if you get to keep the money. Because what you'll do is go out and bury it in your yard, anything to prevent that money from creating jobs. They never stop saying it.We will say, "This is expected to create x number of jobs." On the other hand, we never say that the money we removed from another part of the economy will kill some jobs.”

Ifs Hands Government Jobs Numbers Economy Wonderful Creating My Favorite Expected Yards Wonderful Things Creating Jobs

Author:Dave Barry

“"Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It is easy to copy a successful and proven product. It is also less risky. If you learn to innovate, create, or invent your way to success, you are an entrepreneur creating new value rather than an entrepreneur who wins by copying."”

Ifs Way Mean Values Winning Easy Business Creative Successful Products Type Creating Entrepreneur Copies Proven Be Creative Pioneers Copying Way To Success

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.”

Ifs Want Stills Stuff Bits Rooms Seeing Industry Creating Going To Work Cottages

Author:Ricky Gervais

“If I'm creating the composition, it's easier for me as an actor because I've just cut out the middle man. Because I've created the composition and now I'm in it, I already know exactly what I want to get out of it. So, bang!”

Ifs Knows Men Want Actors Cutting Middle Easier Creating Composition Bangs

Author:Russell Crowe

“When you are creating your character there are a lot of questions and sometimes you doubt if you are making the right choices.”

Ifs Sometimes Character Choices Doubt Creating Right Choices

Author:Peter Facinelli

“The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating your own emergencies. Life will usually go on if things don't go according to plan. It's helpful to keep reminding yourself and repeating the sentence, "Life isn't an emergency".”

Ifs Firsts Persons Steps Cases Plans Humility Goes On Becoming Creating Sentences Peaceful Helpful First Steps Emergencies Reminding According To Plan Reminding Yourself

Book:Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

“If you try to figure out how you will get what you want you will limit yourself to what your ego or conditioned mind can do. The key to creating what you want is to turn your desire or your goal over to your subconscious which is connected to the Universal Mind or Universal Subconscious and let it bring the goal to you and you to your goal.”

Ifs Want Trying Mind Desire Turns Goal Can Do Figures Keys Limits Ego Creating Universal Connected What You Want Subconscious

Author:Robert Anthony

“Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.”

“We are capable of creating miracles ourselves and the greatest miracle is to create a masterpiece of joy out of your life with no excuses. The thing I focus on is going straight to heart. I go to mine first because if I don't feel it, you're not going to feel it. I take a deep breath and remind myself that before I give it to you I have to give it to myself.”

Ifs Giving Feels Firsts Heart Joy Focus Mines Creating Musician Capable Miracle Breaths Excuse Masterpiece No Excuses Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Author:Carlos Santana

“Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.”

Source: Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars

“If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.”

Ifs Ability Levels Business Creating Chickens

Author:Ross Perot

“I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.”

Ifs World Mind Humans Littles Persons States Seems Hate Dies Born Building Creating Capable Killing Pity Destroying Pitiful If You Love Me Born To Die

Book:Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey

Source: Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey

“If you don't care about the people around you or treat them as if they don't matter, you'll stop the flow of possibilities. This includes your financial prosperity. Creating a vehicle for good that you feel passionate about is the final step toward true prosperity.”

People Ifs Feels Matter Care Steps Possibility Creating Flow Treats Finals Financial Passionate Prosperity Don't Care Vehicle Financial Prosperity

Author:Joe Vitale

“If I am creating the shots from scratch I may have to spend more time holding the directors hand and therefore have less time to finesse the shot or the lighting etc. but it really all depends on the project. Some films benefit from their spontaneity.”

Ifs May Hands Film Depends Directors Benefits Projects Creating Shots Etc More Time Scratches Spontaneity Lighting Finesse

Author:Roger Deakins

“The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.”

Ifs World Writing Stories Song Three Minutes Creating Crafts Life Story Picture Frames

Author:PJ Harvey

“If something gets under my own skin, and keeps reoccurring, it starts to take on a certain weight and value, and I think, "I have to put this in the song. I have no choice but to mention Greek Cypriots in this song." It's a little internal challenge to myself. Like creating little imaginary rituals in yourself to help the song go from nonexisting to existing.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Helping Certain Values Song Choices Challenges My Own Creating Skins Weight Greek Internals Ritual Imaginary Cypriots

Author:Andrew Bird

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