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“I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.”

Ifs Years Made Done Grows Sports Player Areas Increase Made It Hockey Hockey Player Playing Hockey

Author:Angela Ruggiero

“It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase.”

Ifs Long Stills I Can Enough Play Next Grows Enjoy Steps Growing Up Ready Let Me Good Enough Phases

Author:Angela Ruggiero

“If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.”

Ifs Should Grows Perfect Example Taste Plant Plates

Author:Rene Redzepi

“I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we're going to grow together, that we're going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, we're not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Together Grows Economy Succeed Majority International Overwhelming

Author:Bernie Sanders

“What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.”

Ifs Mind States Happiness Grows Focus Buddhism Unhappy State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.”

People Ifs Made Real Kids Grows Stuff Rooms Focus Couple Drama Commitment

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“Wow, I think you grow all the time when you're working. You start the job and by the end of it, if it's a long one, you kind of say, "My God, I was so different at the start of this job." I always feel like I've changed for the better with each one.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Kind Long Different Ends Jobs Grows Changed Wow I've Changed

Author:Eleanor Tomlinson

“I'm into everything. My iPod is very eclectic - if you kept it on shuffle, you'd be amazed. For example, I was forced to grow up on Dolly Parton. My mum was obsessed by her. She bought all this memorabilia for the front room. It's ridiculous.”

Ifs Grows Rooms Growing Up Fronts Example Ridiculous Obsessed Mum Amazed Ipods Eclectic Shuffle Memorabilia

Author:Tinie Tempah

“Anything you do sustainably feels so good that you're a full-on addict as soon as you try it. If you eat only vegetables and fruits that you grow yourself from your garden, or organic food, it tastes so much better and is so much better for you, you can't really go back.”

Ifs Feels Trying Grows Taste Garden Fruit Vegetables Sustainability Addict Organic Food

Author:Daryl Hannah

“Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.”

Ifs Needs Writing Sometimes Grows Bits Wonder Our Lives Heard Wake Up Make Sense Visible Desperate Endeavor

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole.”

People Ifs Soul Ends Whole Grows Process Growth Mistake Forgiving Guilt Wounds Blanket Crippled

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.”

Ifs Trying Years Grows Risk Taught Willing Performers New Things Improvisation

Author:Jack McBrayer

“I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.”

Ifs Years Made Stills Shows Grows Growing Up Taken Streets Car Terrible Spending Parks Jerry Spotlight Squad

Author:Steve Wilkos

“If I ever grow up, I don't want to be around for it.”

Ifs Want Grows Growing Up

Author:Sebastian Bach

“I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.”

Ifs Grows Issues Rocks Band Hundred Dollars Magazines Retiring Mexico Potatoes Yugoslavia

Author:Kurt Cobain

“I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end. I feel that if adults cannot enjoy a children’s book properly there is something wrong with either the book or the adult reading it. This of course, is just a smart way of saying I don't want to grow up.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Should Children Book Ends Courses Reading Grows Enjoy Growing Up Magic Childhood Smart Adults Always Believe Children's Books Magic Of Childhood

Author:Colin Thompson

“At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims - gets used to the water - the wave grows small. If we pull the child away when the wave is high, he never sees that, never learns how to swim and remains afraid. If he gets a chance to feel strong, in control, that's called coping. When he copes, he feels better.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Children Used Strong Grows Water Chance Remains Wave Swim Scare Feel Better Coping

Author:Jonathan Kellerman

“There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”

People Ifs Want Should Littles Might Grows Bits Little Bit Exciting Instinct Paint Investing Grass Excitement Dry Dull Gambling Vegas Las Vegas

Author:Paul Samuelson

“For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow old? If not, then they'll end their days in societies dominated by people with a very different worldview.”

People Ifs Different Real Ends States Social Grows Simple Growing Up Program Decline Get Real Worldview Demographics Social Programs

Book:America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

Source: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

“You don’t get better on the days when you feel like going. You get better on the days when you don’t want to go, but you go anyway. If you can overcome the negative energy coming from your tired body or unmotivated mind, you will grow and become better. It won’t be the best workout you have, you won’t accomplish as much as what you usually do when you actually feel good, but that doesn’t matter. Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.”

“A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and loose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.”

People Ifs Knows Wells May Mean Persons Spirit Lying Fall Speak Strong Grows Causes Acting Situation Influence Benefits Sight Shame Conviction Reactions Objectives Liberation Confused

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.”

Ifs Stills Moving Dies Grows Challenges Creatures Standing Disturbance Standing Still

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“If you have great people around you, they will take you higher than your dream will. Leaders are never self-made. Those closest to you determine your level of success, so choosing the right companions as partners in pursuit of your vision is an important decision. My advice is to surround yourself with talented people who will challenge you, help you grow and inspire you to maximize your potential.”

“When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.”

Ifs Girl Reading Grows Fiction Growing Up Growing Normal Female Historical Males Everyday Historical Fiction Clara Betsy Ross

Author:Kathryn Lasky

“Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Grows Enemy Struggle Strength Strive

Book:The Lonesome Gods

Source: The Lonesome Gods

“Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the Spirit's final harvest, may inherit Paradise. If we Christian's truly treasure the hope that one day we, like Adam and the penitent thief, will walk alongside the One who caused even the dead wood of the Cross to blossom with flowers, then we must also imitate the Master's art and make the desolate earth grow green.”

Source: Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening

“It would be hard to imagine Heaven without children. It wouldn't be Heaven! It would be a pretty boring place without children. What are we going to do, all get to be old people and then stagnate and that's the end of it? Once all those that are already born grow up, the place would really lack life without new generations of children! If there were no children, it would be a dead society.”

People Ifs Children Ends Hard Would Be Heaven Grows Born Growing Up Imagine Generations Boring Heavenly Old People New Generation

Author:David Berg

“Even if I weren't learning new roles and getting the opportunity to be coached by incredible people, I still think I would be so excited to have an opportunity to continue to push myself and grow, as an artist.”

People Ifs Thinking Stills Would Be Artist Opportunity Grows Roles Incredibles Excited Learning New

Author:Misty Copeland

“Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.”

People Ifs Writing Stories Film Grows Millions Caught Budgets Elevators You Re Pretty

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.”

Ifs Firsts Use Used Language Grows Innovation Following Recognizing Dictionary Unfamiliar Discerning New Words Lexicographer

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!”

Ifs Men Way Want Grows Chance Cat Helpful Carrie Tails Chances Are Doubtful

Author:Mark Twain

“Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.”

Ifs Culture Grows Ought Blame Vain Soil Agriculture Toil

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

“Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.”

Ifs Heart Grows Tree Tears Proud Gentle Poison Repentance Remorse Dew Gloomy True Repentance

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.”

Ifs Believe Long Done Life Is Grows Easy Clear Limits Evident Great Work

Author:Alfred Adler

“You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.”

Ifs Way Giving Doe Enough Moments Helping Might Form Fall Girl Grows Growth Sun Air Flower Fairs Dust Decay Hammers Fetters Narcissus

Book:Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

“Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.”

People Ifs Children Play Grows Growing Up Duty Sorrow Children Playing

Author:Mary Oliver

“If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.”

Ifs Feelings Grows Cold Regard Fortune Indifferent

Author:George Matthew Adams

“If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Grows Water Flower Plant Faults Commit Cures Each Day Tall Spades Hoe Shrubs

Book:Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

“If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.”

Ifs Firsts Grows Messages Dull Procrastination Suggestions

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.”

Ifs Body Spirit Grows Health Exercise Neglected

Book:Concerning the spiritual in art

Source: Concerning the spiritual in art

“If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Stories Use Strong Grows Wise Overcoming Stronger Disappointment Wiser Exam Makes You Stronger Success Stories Greatest Success Semester

Author:Loretta Young

“Intuitively, one would assume if you don't grow up with other children you might not learn that easy give and take. What often happens is that there are some only children who act that way, and that stands out more than the only children who seem to get along with others.”

Ifs Way Giving Children Seems Might Happens Grows Easy Growing Up Assuming Standing Out Only Child Give And Take

Author:Peter Thomas

“Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal.”

Ifs Feels Desire Universe Grows Mystery Quiet Manage Immortality Immortal Embedded Duration

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.”

Ifs Grows Growth Emptiness Destructive Diversion Unproductive

Book:Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success

Source: Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success

“Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.”

Ifs Life Is Grows Pleasure Destruction Misery Everyday Each Day Misfortunes Surroundings Equanimity

Author:Luther Burbank

“It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.”

Ifs Knows Book Grows Enjoy Pleasure Wonder Presidential

Book:Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter

Source: Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter

“A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.”

Ifs World Giving Wells Littles Strong Grows Return Good Things Harbors Adventurer

Book:Deephaven, and other stories

Source: Deephaven, and other stories

“If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.”

Ifs Men Real Would Be Earth Faces Grows Half He Man Universal Horse If I Could Arkansas Alligators

Author:Davy Crockett

“Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.”

People Ifs Want Life Should Children Grows Parent Adults Should Have Parenting Stature Being A Parent Light And Shadow Disney Company Triumph Over Evil

Book:Walt Disney: Conversations

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations