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“I feel like a new person. I learned how to deal with people when I wasn't a football player. I always wondered how they'd react to me, if they'd respect me. I found out I have other attributes that I like-and that others like. The injury made me a lot more mature. I have a better grasp of reality in life. I'm more patient and giving. I'm a lot closer to my family and more team oriented. I'm so much stronger emotionally. I have proven to myself that I can overcome the most dreaded injury in football. It's almost like dying and realizing life has been given back to me. I can't wait to play.”

“Meditation gives you personal power. You will notice that people will treat you differently as you progress because they can feel that power. Use that power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Feels Heart Use Meditation Progress Buddhism Treats Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.”

“I rest in the light of forgiveness. I forgive myself and others for that which is done (and better left undone) and also that which is not done (and better if done). I give myself permission to enjoy this moment without guilt. I freely release all uncertainty, regret, and fear.”

Ifs Giving Done Moments Light Left Enjoy Regret Forgiving Guilt Release Uncertainty Permission Undone

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.”

Ifs Giving Self Awareness Sad Self Awareness Significant Trophies Validation

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“If... Adam had trusted in God and been nourished from the tree of life (Gn. 2:9)? he would not have set aside the immortality that had been granted. For such immortality is eternally preserved by participation in life, since all life is genuine and preserved by appropriate food. The food of that blessed life is 'the bread that came down from heaven and gives life to the world' (Jn. 6:33), just as the inerrant Word Himself declares about Himself in the Gospels.”

Ifs World Giving Christian Life Is Heaven Tree Blessed Genuine Bread Granted Immortality Appropriate Orthodox Adam Trusted Participation Blessed Life Tree Of Life

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.”

Ifs Giving Wells Film Written Directors Clever Well Written Very Clever

Author:Patrice Leconte

“I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.”

Ifs Giving Years Next Stuff Next Year

Author:David Morrissey

“I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Reality Language Interesting Math Physics Compelling Scenarios Really Cool Entry Disconnected

Author:Randall Munroe

“If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.”

Ifs Giving Pieces Advice College Being True Be True To Yourself True To Yourself One Piece Freshman College Freshmen

Author:Beverley Mitchell

“It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.”

Ifs Needs Giving Stories Talking Dialogue

Author:Craig McCracken

“I love actors and I feel like, if you usually allow people some say, most people, if they start to feel comfortable, they're going to have a voice. If they feel heard, then they will give back 10 times as much to you.”

People Ifs Giving Feels Actors Voice Heard Comfortable Giving Back

Author:Vince Vaughn

“Folks, if you give people things for free, don't blame them for taking them.”

People Ifs Giving Blame Folks

Author:Rob Woodall

“If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.”

Ifs World Way Giving Ends Causes Regret

Book:Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age

Source: Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age

“In the doctrine of Providence, we have a specific Christian confession exclusively possible through faith in Jesus Christ. This faith is no general, vague notion of Providence. It has a concrete focus: ‘If God is for us, who is against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?’ (Rom.8:31, 32).”

Ifs Giving Christian Jesus Christ Focus Son Jesus Christ All Things Notion Doctrine Concrete Confession Providence Vague Faith In Jesus

Author:G. C. Berkouwer

“Worship is so much more than the songs I sing. Instead, worship is in the heart that lifts the song. If you think about it, worship began when I woke up this morning. My life purpose is to give God glory through everything I do. If my life does not worship Him, my songs don't either.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Heart Doe Purpose Song Morning Worship Glory Lifts Purpose Of Life

Author:Mark Hall

“The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.”

Ifs Giving Speak Teacher Give Me Librarian Pillow English Teacher Booksellers

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.”

People Ifs World Giving Culture Climate Good Place

Author:Jan Gehl

“Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular Congress that enacted a particular provision. That methodology is not mine nor, I think, the one that courts have traditionally followed. It is our task, as I see it, not to enter the minds of the Members of Congress - who need have nothing in mind in order for their votes to be both lawful and effective - but rather to give fair and reasonable meaning to the text of the United States Code, adopted by various Congresses at various times.”

“If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.”

Ifs Giving Would Be Actors Loses Cases Successful Security Movie Being Successful

Author:Ang Lee

“My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Kind I Can Whole Jobs Challenges Know How Succeed Give Me Whole Life Welcome Doubted Doubters

Author:Dwyane Wade

“If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.”

Ifs Giving Suffering Jesus Giving Up

Author:Timothy Keller

“If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.”

Ifs Way Giving Reason Give Me Reason Why

Author:Eli Broad

“What I love most about playing in front of people has something to do with a certain kind of energy exchange. The attention and appreciation of my audience feeds back into my playing. It really seems as if there is a true and equal give and take between performer and listener, making me aware of how much I depend on my audience. And since the audience is different every night, the music being played will differ too. Every space I performed in has its own magic and spirit.”

“If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.”

Ifs Giving America Chance Give Me

Author:John Lydon

“If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.”

Ifs Giving Kind Too Much Supposed To Be

Author:Joss Stone

“Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.”

Ifs Giving Made Film Technology Four Tree Cameras Video Grain Leafs Video Cameras

Author:Jonas Mekas

“Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development because, if it doesn't work out, you want to work with them again. You have to know their work really well, know the drafts really well, and when you give notes, you need to have really thought them through.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Giving Wells Development Directors Series Notes Work Out Good Experiences

Author:Sue Naegle

“I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.”

People Ifs Giving Hands Kids Moving Success Steps Feet Determination Lays Dancing Perseverance Over You Keep Going Keep Moving Forward

Author:Morgan Freeman

“If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Writing Character Interesting Powerful Reader Vulnerability

Book:Stan Lee's Chakra The Invincible Free Comic Book Day Special 2015

Source: Stan Lee's Chakra The Invincible Free Comic Book Day Special 2015

“The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.”

Ifs Giving Anxiety Anticipation Illusory

Book:Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

“It is people who pause to appreciate life and give thanks who are happiest. If we change our thoughts, we change our world! Love and peace to you all.”

People Ifs World Giving Appreciate Thanks Our World Pauses Our Thoughts Peace And Love Appreciate Life World Love

Author:Brittany Maynard

“It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it--a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before.”

Ifs Way Giving Has Beens Stories Form Courses Process Sides Challenges Pages Unique Uncharted

Book:Stories, Essays, and Memoir

Source: Stories, Essays, and Memoir

“If you wish others to respect you, you must show respect for them...Everyone wants to feel that he counts for something and is important to someone. Invariably, people will give their love, respect, and attention to the person who fills that need. Consideration for others generally reflects faith in self and faith in others.”

People Ifs Want Needs Giving Feels Persons Important Self Shows Wish Attention Consideration Love Respect Show Respect Consideration For Others

Author:Ari Kiev

“I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.”

Ifs Giving Trying Made Ends Waiting Term Chance Mistake Late Give Me Too Late Behaviour Made A Mistake I Made A Mistake

Author:Francois Hollande

“We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.”

Source: Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972

“Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.”

Ifs Giving Should Has Beens Hands Moving Levels Progress Computer Tests Prepared Passing Versions Passings Predictions Watson Advent

Book:How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

Source: How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

“Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there is a lamp there is light; if there is no lamp there is no light. The lamp is the substance of light; the light is the function of the lamp. Thus, although they have two names, in substance they are not two. Meditation and wisdom are also like this.”

Ifs Giving Two Light Names Meditation Function Substance Good Friend Lamps

Book:The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

Source: The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

“And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Feels Children Given Ability Creative Psychology Birth Female Urges Linked

Author:Zoe Kazan

“Give up as much as you're willing to receive back and give yourself, if that makes any sense. Whatever that is, don't expect more from a person than what you're willing to give, but give it knowing that you're giving it - it's been given, so don't expect anything else.”

Ifs Giving Persons Given Knowing Willing Giving Up

Author:Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

“People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought.”

People Ifs Giving Stills Simple Risk Huge Dollars Bonus

Author:William D. Cohan

“Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you.”

Ifs Knows Giving Writing Looks Universe Chance Discipline Weight Muse Lifting Lifting Weights Mr Universe

Author:Tony D'Souza

“A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.”

People Ifs Giving Years Actors Winning Roles Successful Five Drama Six Gains Weight Credit Oscars Sitcom

Author:Mike O'Malley

“If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.”

“Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman.”

Ifs World Giving Wells Understanding Wonderful If I Could

Author:James MacArthur

“If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn’t have to be validated.”

Ifs Needs Giving Would Be Definitions Definition Of Happiness

Book:The Dinner

Source: The Dinner

“Without your voice being heard in Washington, the decisions we make aren't as good. I would urge women to consider public service. And if you want to run, give me a call. I'll help.”

Ifs Want Giving Helping Running Voice Decision Heard Give Me Urges Public Service Decisions We Make

Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“If we believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the only begotten Son of God and that He came into this world and went to the cross of Calvary and died for our sins and rose again in order to justify us and to give us life anew and prepare us for heaven-if you really believe that, there is only one inevitable deduction, namely that He is entitled to the whole of our lives, without any limit whatsoever.”

Ifs World Giving Believe Whole Order Jesus Heaven Sin Our Lives This World Son Limits Crosses Died Rose Inevitable Justify Entitled Deductions Calvary Nazareth

Author:Martyn

“Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.”

People Ifs Giving Looks Littles Seems Earth Moving Lost Wonder Beauty Blind Excitement Desperate

Author:Pablo Casals

“We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.”

Ifs Giving Order Enemy Democracy Stupid Bears Weapons Affair Fascism Tickets Parliament Salary Flocks Arsenal

Author:Joseph Goebbels