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“If God answered all of your prayers, would the world look different or just your life?”

Ifs World Looks Different Prayer Our Prayers

“On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.”

Source: Stillness Speaks

“I think people have an idea of what Fox News is. If people don't watch Fox News, then it's just a caricature, it's not real, they have it in their heads that it's something very different than what it actually is.”

People Ifs Thinking Ideas Different Real Watches News Foxes Caricatures Fox News

Author:Megyn Kelly

“My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.”

Ifs Way Looks Art Ideas Different Whole Song Creating Art Is Down And Chaos Reactions Different Ways Upside Down Tornadoes Things Upside Down

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Littles Different Real Growing Trouble Harder Hopefully Pushing Wow New Things Push Yourself

Author:Rian Johnson

“Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.”

Ifs Looks Different Perspective Eternity This Life Lenses Different Perspective

Author:James E. Faust

“Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.”

Ifs Different Kids Age Style Keys Personality Being Yourself Be You Be Confident Just Be Yourself

Author:Leo Howard

“How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.''But isn't that unkind to the animal?''Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.”

Ifs World Way Trying Years Wells Mean Children Different Whole Lasts Animal Changed Dad Hundred Ill Experiments Whole World One Way Different Ways Exaggeration Unkind

Author:Richard Adams

“Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.”

Ifs Different Use Certain Song Next Example Treats Guitar Track Tunes

Author:Keith Richards

“I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Book Different Whole Age Wonder Cutting Computer Paragraph Revising Deleting

Author:Megan McCafferty

“Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Different Whole Understood Lawyer January

Author:Gordon Gould

“If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.”

Ifs Knows Littles Different Winning Bits Office Little Bit Versions Magazines Glamour

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.”

Ifs Different Would Be Today Song Next Records Week Exciting Naive Next Week Idealistic

Author:Sondre Lerche

“Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Different Play Mistake Know How Tough Vulnerable

Author:Ellen Malcolm

“If you've done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We're absolutely not becoming a PR agency and we're not turning into Brunswick. We will remain SRU, but we will be owned by the Brunswick Group. It's quite different.”

Ifs Different Done Moving Bits Groups Becoming Assuming Journalism Agency

Author:Peter York

“Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.”

People Ifs Should Different Play Shows Hands Used Force Powerful Watches Television Fool Police Mediums Something Better Sitcom

Author:Roone Arledge

“Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Looks Book Different Next Morning Written Writing A Book

Author:Adam Clymer

“I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.”

Ifs Writing Looks Different Stories Together Happenings Everyday Different Things

Author:Desmond Dekker

“I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind Different Use Term Accepting Style Involved Band Following Brands Different Peoples

Author:Geoff Downes

“If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?”

Ifs Want Made Different Action Wanted Choices Series Lots Of Money Different Choices

Author:Stephen Daldry

“There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.”

Ifs Different Available Korea North Korea

Author:Mitchell Reiss

“Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's and stack's and stack's of different act's. I got a lot here - I know what I done.”

People Ifs Knows Different Done Cameras

Author:Edwin Starr

“If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.”

Ifs Thinking Different Whole Careers Changed Beer Bottles Heels Changed My Life Achilles Vodka Achilles Heel

Author:Jayson Williams

“Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.”

“If you don't make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you really want, what makes you think that tomorrow - or next week, or next month, or next year - is going to be any different? They won't. And that's why you must draw your line in the sand TODAY.”

“Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.”

“Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.”

Ifs Different Pain Hurt Technique Emptiness It Hurts Detachment Numbness Anaesthesia

Book:The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle

Source: The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle

“Maybe it'll move around, who knows?-So it can minister to different parts of the World! If it can float down from Outer Space from God out of Heaven to the Earth, then it probably can still float around the Earth and hover here or there or set down here or there. After all, it's only 1500 miles square and 1500 miles high!-With God, a city like that can just float around!”

Ifs Knows World Stills Different Earth Moving Heaven Space Cities Miles Ministers Heavenly Squares Floats Outer Space

Author:David Berg

“You will notice the phenomena of meditation. You may see dazzling lights, feel energy coursing through different parts of your body, feel as if you are floating, hear sounds, or smell fragrances.”

Ifs Feels May Different Body Light Energy Sound Meditation Smell Your Body Floating Fragrance Dazzling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The sport has changed so much since 2004, it's incredible. If you look even at me, the way I'm fencing now compared to 2004, it's a completely different sport. They've changed so many things just with what [the referees] are calling, they've changed the timing of the [scoring] lights. You always have to be evolving as a fencer. The Olympics is interesting because it's such a small field compared to what we're used to. This world championships, I think we had a hundred and something [athletes]. The Olympics is going to be less than 32.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Looks Different Light Used Sports Interesting Fields This World Changed Calling Hundred Incredibles Athlete Evolve Timing Olympics Championship Referee Fencing

Author:Mariel Zagunis

“When I came back from Pakistan, I wanted to take computer classes nearby. I asked my brother. I was in my home, cooking for my family, and all our relatives and guests. But I said, "I want to live my life as a woman, but I want to study." But, he told me, "Just study at home, you don't need to go out." He said, "If you go to the courses, what will our relatives say? They will lose respect for us." They told me, "We know you're feeling different, but we cannot do anything about it."”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Said Different Feelings Home Wanted Courses Loses Class Study Brother Computer My Family Cooking My Brother Guests Living My Life Pakistan Home Cooking

Author:Malina Suliman

“If you trust that the people making the show love the source material and the characters, and it's a different medium and there are different requirements for long-form storytelling that will hopefully carry over a number of seasons, then it's exciting.”

People Ifs Long Different Character Shows Form Numbers Materials Source Seasons Exciting Storytelling Mediums Hopefully Requirements

Author:Greg Bryk

“It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.”

Ifs Knows Way Book Different Whole Character Actors Easy Views Written Easier Scene Draws Let Me Prepared Scripts Warm Point Of View Brilliant Enjoyed Accents Let Me Go Never Let Me Go

Author:Carey Mulligan

“If for you the most important thing is to make a lot of money, then you don't want to take a certain type of risk. If, on another hand, the most important thing to you is to make people around you have a more fulfilled life, then there is a different set of things that are important to you. Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.”

People Ifs Knows Want Important Different Hands Able Certain Risk Type Important Things About Yourself Lots Of Money Fulfilled Fulfilled Life

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.”

“If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different - it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to a well-ordered society.”

Ifs Mind Wells Has Beens Book Different Materials Property Possession Enlightened Stolen Items Pathways Material Possessions

Book:The Diamond Age

Source: The Diamond Age

“I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.”

Ifs Art Different Play Certain Understanding Areas South Tongue Delicate Accents Syllables Slick

Author:Yelawolf

“The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.”

Ifs Needs Different Problem Mines Spending Celebrate My Time Insecurity Spectacular Envious

Book:God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times

Source: God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times

“If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.”

Ifs Different Father Wife Living My Life Matrimony Different Religions

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things.”

Ifs Kind Littles Different Facts Names Information Essentials Discovery Intuition Maturity Different Kinds Location Sequence

Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.”

Ifs Men Different Faces Beast One Man Portraiture

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.”

“If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.”

Ifs Children Different Spontaneous Spontaneity Dross

Author:Maurice Sendak

“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”

“It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph.”

Ifs Different Jobs Easy Opinion Advantage Paint Rate Photograph Oneself Deeper Resemblance Impressionism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.”

Ifs May Important Ideas Different Purpose Universe Sides Materials Method Profound Foolish Despise Contradictory

Author:Neil Postman

“If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!”

People Ifs Different Done Would Be Call Me Unworthy Scoundrels Plagiarism

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.”

Ifs Men Different Lord Figures Example Color Dresses Old Man Tranquility Battlefields Armor Colorful Attending Helmet Banquets Kimonos

Author:Matsuo Basho

“It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.”

Ifs Different Power Paint Size Wide Scales Inches

Author:Robert Motherwell

“It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either.”

Ifs Writing Different Hard Might Reputation Initials Pseudonyms

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

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