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“Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization would probably flunk. We have a very convenient and self-serving way of defining intelligence. If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.”

Ifs Way Doe Self Reason Understanding Animal Example Civilization Tests Instinct Western Serving Relative Defining Convenient Western Civilization Self Serving

Book:Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth

Source: Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth

“If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.”

Ifs Example Musician Gangsters Prerequisites

Author:Greg Giraldo

“I can't think of any more important value to instill in our children than the desire to help others. I feel strongly about setting an example for them. Real problems can be solved by the next generation if we instill in them the right values.”

“If there's anything you want to do and you can't figure out why you're not doing it, there's a simple answer: you link more pain to doing it than not doing it. Hey, if you don't have enough money, for example I know that's an issue for a lot of people. It was for a good deal of my life. If you don't have money there's only one reason: you link more pain to having more money than to not having it.”

People Ifs Knows Want Reason Enough Pain Simple Answers Deals Issues Figures Example Hey Links More Money

Author:Tony Robbins

“A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?”

Ifs School Father Views Missing Example Months Laughed Garbage Footballer Collectors Dustbin Topsy Turvy

Author:David Icke

“There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.”

Ifs Should Littles Reason Play Might Would Be Audience Imagine Heard Example Jokes Reason Why No Reason Appreciated Fifth Symphony Conductor

Author:A. P. Herbert

“We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing is a providing increased anonymity and ever increasing boredom, then we should not wonder if ingenious man turns to such amusements as drugs, housebreaking, vandalism, mayhem, riots, or - at the most harmless - strange haircuts, costumes, standards of cleanliness, and sexual experiments.”

“I don't think that the big crunch should be seen as a menace, but rather as an opportunity. It's one of these times in -history - and we have plenty of examples from the past - where it's possible to really make a difference. And if art is serious about claiming a central role in today's society and culture, this is the best chance it's had in ages.”

“If you think about how broadcast mini-series approach historical events, there is a hagiography. There has been a soft, very glossy idea about history. And one of the things I like about Game of Thrones, for example, is just the grit and the authenticity.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Ideas Games Events Example Approach Historical Series Authenticity Thrones Grit Historical Events

Author:John Landgraf

“Black-Scholes is a know-nothing system. If you know nothing about value - only price - then Black-Scholes is a pretty good guess at what a 90-day option might be worth. But the minute you get into longer periods of time, it's crazy to get into Black-Scholes. For example, at Costco we issued stock options with strike prices of $30 and $60, and Black-Scholes valued the $60 ones higher. This is insane.”

Ifs Knows Might Values Black Crazy Minutes Example Higher Periods Strikes Insane Scholes Costco Stock Options

Author:Charlie Munger

“And maybe the cereal makers by and large have learned to be less crazy about fighting for market share-because if you get even one person who's hell-bent on gaining market share.... For example, if I were Kellogg and I decided that I had to have 60% of the market, I think I could take most of the profit out of cereals. I'd ruin Kellogg in the process. But I think I could do it.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Fighting Process Hell Share Crazy Example Decided Profit Ruins Makers Bent Cereal

Author:Charlie Munger

“To atone, I teach and try to set an example... I love spreading this stuff around. Just because it's trite doesn't mean it isn't right. In fact, I like to say, 'If it's trite, it's right.'”

Ifs Trying Mean Facts Stuff Teach Example

Author:Charlie Munger

“If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way.”

Ifs Way Humans Has Beens Might Running Faces Democracy Example Development West Socialism Occasions Germany Might Have Been Human Faces West Germany

Author:Stefan Heym

“It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' - in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course.”

Ifs Littles Courses Effort Principles Doubt Too Much Magic Example Blind No Doubt Each Day Staff Wizards Little Time Charging Rpgs

Author:Terry Pratchett

“If someone tried to take the hierarchy thing too seriously - for example, being lovely to producers but moaning to runners about the tea - that would not be accepted on 'Harry Potter'; someone would pull you aside and have a word.”

Ifs Example Accepted Lovely Producers Tea Harry Potter Runners Hierarchy Potters Moaning

Author:Tom Felton

“Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen. For example, Steve McQueen, if you cut the sound, you don't know what he's acting really. He gives to the lines, to the text, something very special, and he's very good. He was a great actor. But, to do a silent movie, you have to have more expressive actors.”

Ifs Knows Way Giving May Actors Sound Lines Acting Cutting Special Example Stones Silent Very Good Expressive Great Actors Mcqueen Silent Movies

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.”

People Ifs World Needs Real Ends Alive Example Desperate The End Of The Day Real World Starving Thirsty

Author:Eric Kripke

“Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh - they all have something to say, they're passionate, they have an idealistic attitude to the filmmaking process. Soderbergh's Traffic is amazing. Another great couple of examples of the strength of American cinema is American Beauty and Magnolia.”

Ifs Seems Today Film Courses Process Attitude Example Couple Directors Passionate Cinema Filmmaking Impressed Traffic Idealistic Scorsese Magnolias

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“We need to start treating ourselves how we deserve to be treated, even if you feel that no one else does. Prove to the world you are worth something by treating yourself with the utmost respect and hope that other people will follow your example. And even if they don't, at least one person in the world is treating you well: You.”

People Ifs World Needs Feels Wells Persons Doe Example Prove Deserve Treated

Author:Carrie Fletcher

“If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Example Strange Encounters Doing You

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I'm dressed to kill in my own mind. They'll say to me, 'Dad, you're not going out there looking like that are you?' If that doesn't kill a star, I don't know what does!”

Ifs Knows Mind Doe Kids Stars My Own Rooms Example Dad Standing Miles Going Out Standing There Nicole

Author:Lionel Richie

“I think it is quite wrong to photograph, for example, Garbo, if she doesn't want to be photographed. Now I would have loved to photograph her, but she obviously didn't want to be photographed so I didn't follow it up. Then somebody will photograph her walking down the street because she has to walk down the street, and I mind that sort of intrusion. I think this is horrible.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mind Walks Streets Example Walking Photograph Horrible Intrusion Garbo

Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

“This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.”

Source: Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: on Politics, History, and Morals

“If Jesus came as God, then why did God have to anoint Him? If Jesus - see God's already been anointed. If Jesus came as God, then why did God have to anoint Him? Jesus came as a man, that's why it was legal to anoint him. God doesn't need anointing, He is anointing. Jesus came as a man, and at age 30 God is now getting ready to demonstrate to us, and give us an example of what a man, with the anointing, can do.”

Ifs Men Needs Giving Age Jesus Can Do Example Ready Anointing Age 30

Author:Creflo A. Dollar

“What does interest me is how difficult my culture seems to find it to look the dark side of life directly in the eye. It seems to me that if we look back at mediaeval culture, for example, we see a society which faces the reality of death and pain and limitation, because it has to. Our society, which is progressive and technological and seems to have a slightly fanatical utopian edge to it, gets very uncomfortable when anybody highlights the dark side of humanity, or the world we have built, or what we are doing to the rest of life on Earth.”

“I think it is about individuality so I don't have a sense to tell someone they need a makeover. One example I would give is Mariah Carey. She has been the same for so long but I bet she is thinking, "If it ain't broke then don't fix it." She is dated but I love Mariah for that.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Giving Long Has Beens Example Individuality Broke Makeovers

Author:Michelle Visage

“Anytime you have a thought, for example, that excludes someone, if you have a religion that excludes someone, then you've really left God behind, and you've really left your source energy behind.”

Ifs Energy Left Behinds Example Source

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I work with a lot of different charities, and by that I don't mean merely by giving money, but by really getting involved hands-on. I've always said that one of the reasons why I was put on this Earth was to help people. That's something I've always enjoyed both here in America and if I have the opportunity when I'm traveling out of the country. For example, I like to visit orphanages to spend time with the children. That's very important to me.”

“Sociologically, I think it is the most important thing going on in the world today. Because you can't change people by force. Communism made a great mistake in trying to inflict its beliefs on everybody. People have to find their own understanding, and if you can offer them an example that will inspire, they will come naturally to it. Ananda tries to offer this inspiring example.”

“If you look at the life of Jesus, that's an example of true worship. You know look at the stories, if you want to learn about real worship read Matthew through John. Seriously. You just read it and you will see the true level. You see when Jesus is in the boat and the storm comes when it comes and the winds are blowing and Jesus is sleeping in the boat and the disciples are freaking out. And Jesus wakes up and says "What you guys got is a problem, no?" and he commands the seas to be calm that's true worship.”

“You know what we pride ourselves on that - although I wouldn't mind if my backside was a little smaller. But look at the original divas... take Aretha Franklin for example - I've seen her live in the States and she was mammoth, but she had that crowd under control and they doted on every movement she made! We're not little midgets but the music industry is not about that, it's about loving the music and respecting what you do.”

Ifs Knows Mind Looks Littles Made States Example Movement Pride Industry Originals Crowds Music Industry Franklin Midget Backsides

Author:Kate DeAraugo

“Like I've said many times before, I'm always more likely to remember goals for their importance rather than if they're beautiful or not. Goals scored in finals, for example.”

Ifs Said Beautiful Remember Goal Example Importance Finals

Author:Lionel Messi

“Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.”

Ifs Stills Young Lost Goal Example Prime Credibility Shredding

Author:Mac DeMarco

“Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.”

Ifs Values Example

Author:Attila the Hun

“If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.”

Ifs Want Trying Looks Able Beautiful Acting Example Fine Damn Beautiful Women Stop Trying Bollywood

Author:Russell Peters

“I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself.”

People Ifs Shows Community Audience Laughing Groups Example Racism Laugh At Yourself Clams

Author:Russell Peters

“We are very frustrated because we have a Supreme Court that seems determined to say that the wealthier have more right to free speech than the rest of us. For example, they say you couldn't stop me from spending all the money I've saved over the last five years on Hillary's campaign if I wanted to, even though it would clearly violate the spirit of campaign finance reform.”

“It is true that infidelity cannot withstand the force of reason and argument; but true godly example can come nearer the lifespot of religion. It knocks at the door of the heart. If the truths of Christianity were seconded by the devoted and pious lives of all her professed disciples, the unbelief of the world would soon cease. Private example of godliness is what the world most needs.”

Ifs World Needs Heart Reason Force Christianity Doors Example Argument Cease Devoted Disciple Infidelity Godly Pious Godliness Unbelief

Book:A PASTOR'S SKETCHES

Source: A PASTOR'S SKETCHES

“My young friends, I look forward to you as the real makers of Pakistan, do not be exploited and do not be misled. Create amongst yourselves complete unity and solidarity. Set an example of what youth can do. Your main occupation should be in fairness to yourself, to your parents, in fairness to the State, to devote your attention to your studies. If you fritter away your energies now, you will always regret.”

Ifs Should Looks Real States Young Energy Parent Can Do Attention Study Example Youth Regret Unity Occupation Makers Fairness Solidarity Pakistan Misled Young Friends

Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a cadence of two-paragraph examples carefully selected to "prove" their theory, and then they write "one size fits all" books. The message is, "If you'd do what these companies did, you'd be successful too."”

“But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff you will fall; you don't have to collect data on that.”

Ifs Fall Steps Example Theory Practicals Data Gravity Cliffs

Author:Clayton Christensen

“Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent-backed from slapping each other on the backs so much. It looks like arthritis but it isn't. It's hunger for recognition. And it's sort of like, well, I'll scratch you this time if you'll scratch me next time. That kind of thing.”

Ifs Wells Looks Kind Next Walks Example Strange Terrible Towns Hunger Recognition Bullshit Oscars Next Time Bent Affliction Scratches Arthritis Slapping

Author:Rod Serling

“I like to compare the first experiences of the Internet - the fortuitousness, the chance - with reality, with the experience, for example, of being in a city that you don't know. Many times - and I don't know if I can totally defend this argument - I've found that the way one experiences the world, and daily life, we are constantly dealing with these perceptions. And it seems like it works, this superficial perception of determinacy, but it's completely ridiculous.”

Ifs Knows World Way Firsts I Can Reality Seems Found Chance Cities Example Internet Perception Argument Ridiculous Compare Daily Life Superficial

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial genre fiction is full of examples of real bodied sexual encounters or violence encounters - but for the most part, and particularly if you are a woman or minority author, your characters' bodies have to fit a kind of norm inside a narrow set of narrative pre-ordained and sanctioned scripts.”

Ifs Kind Real Character Body Fiction Violence Example Fit Scripts Instance Narrative Genre Encounters Minorities Norm Messy Lisbeth Salander

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So, for example, if I have to have the mother bring a pot of tea from the kitchen to the living room and serve it to the others, how do I, on a practical level, get everyone into the frame? Any decisions I made about the camera angles or movement came out of necessity, versus any sort of stylistic choice.”

“The ways sexuality plays out in political economies is central. And Cambodia's political economy is organized around this notion of family. So lesbianism is actually perceived as being threatening to a degree that it would have not been, for example, under socialist East Germany. But it's one of the essential issues of women's freedom: Do you get to do want you want to do with your body? Not if you don't know what your body is for.”

“It is worthwhile to engage in something that is close to one's heart. I had a scholarship. So if I donate money to give brilliant Chinese students an opportunity to study abroad, then this embodies everything I believe in: education, globalization, social mobility. I am an example of social mobility.”

Ifs Giving Believe Heart Opportunity I Believe Social Study Example Students I Believe In Brilliant Chinese Worthwhile Globalization Scholarship Mobility Donate Study Abroad Social Mobility

Author:Zhang Xin

“If someone is brought in for an interview, for example, and is asked about their views on things, but has posted things that are completely contrary to the interview, frankly I have much more faith in what they posted than what they say during the course of an interview.”

Ifs Courses Views Example Contrary Interviews

Author:Adam Schiff

“I began to firmly change my mind when I saw how young Egyptians used Facebook, for example, to begin to coalesce their social justice movement in their country. And a good Iranian friend of mine showed me how also in Iran, till the government shut it down, much was communicated via social media. So I'm not against. I use the internet regularly to do research. It's great but you have to use your discernment, especially if researching content.”

Ifs Mind Country Use Government Young Used Social Justice Saws Media Example Movement Mines Internet Research Social Justice Social Media Iran Discernment Iranian

Author:Micheline Aharonian Marcom

“Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness...I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged by such examples of humanity and generosity and tenderness. And if they encourage us to reach out to strangers more often, that's a good thing.”

Ifs Feels Humanity Reading Kindness Imagine Example Messages Good Things Stranger Generosity Reach Out Tenderness

Author:Sophie Blackall

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