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“I always liked to be fairly simple because you could get more players ready to play quickly. If you lose players to free agency, injuries, etc., it is easier to get young players ready to play in a less complex system.”

Ifs Play Young Loses Simple Player Ready Easier Complexes Agency Injury Etc Complex Systems Free Agency

Author:Tony Dungy

“Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.”

Ifs Loses Universal Appeals Temples Hinduism

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Do you believe in that Infinite, good Providence working in and through you? If you believe that this Omnipresent One is present in every atom, is through and through, Ota-Prota, as the Sanskrit word goes, penetrating your body, mind and soul, how can you lose heart?”

Ifs Mind Believe Heart Soul Body Faith Loses Infinite Your Body Atoms Providence If You Believe Sanskrit Mind Body And Soul

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.”

Ifs Stories Loses Memories Rely Embedded

Author:Jason Mraz

“Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?”

Ifs Kind Felt Loses Failing Treats Relative Misunderstood

Author:Al Pacino

“With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.”

Ifs Mind Heart Long Shows Hands Christian Fall Grows Goal Loses Walks Holy Safe Protection Guides Favors Deception Weary Blessed Mother Holy Mary

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.”

Ifs Men May Has Beens Christian Spiritual Mother Father Loses Virtue Honor Holy Salvation Charity Fruit Overlooked Holy Mary

Author:Pope Gregory VII

“I always want everything read in one sitting. If they can't read it in one sitting, you're going to lose the rhythm of it. You're going to lose the shape of it.”

Ifs Want Loses Shapes Sitting Rhythm

Author:Joan Didion

“Fear is all the fear of some loss: "I'm going to lose something." If we declare, and if we know in our hearts, "I already have everything that I need: I have life, I have creativity, I have joy, I have nourishment. I have everything I need," and if we just say, "It doesn't depend on my having a physical body to do it," then everything opens up.”

Ifs Knows Needs Heart Body Joy Loses Loss Creativity Depends Nourishment Physical Body

Author:Richard Bach

“"What is my highest sense of right?" we can ask at any decision point in our lives and not worry about if this is going to lose us a lot of money or is this going to make us a lot of money or whatever.”

Ifs Asks Loses Decision Worry Our Lives Highest Lots Of Money

Author:Richard Bach

“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”

“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.”

Ifs Two Hands Asks Friendship Loses Accepting Judging Friends Gains Catholic Saint Stranger Disputes Request Hippo One Friend Two Friends Christian Friends

Author:Saint Augustine

“If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.”

Ifs I Can Different Hours Loses Focus Painting Tired Paint Pushing Sensitivity

Author:Gary Panter

“If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would lose a part of its own. It would also be a different Europe then. Accepting Turkey into the EU is an ambitious political endeavor of historical proportions. Europe would become a strong, multi-religious unit.”

Ifs Different Political Courses Strong Loses Religious Accepting Identity Members Europe Historical Proportion Endeavor Ambitious Units Turkeys

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.”

Ifs Wells Looks Might Loses Shapes Weight Bones Math Curves Lose Weight

Author:Christina Hendricks

“If you go to a film festival and watch a bunch of features and then watch a bunch of shorts, you will almost always find that the shorts are where people are taking more risks and pushing more boundaries...simply because they have much less to lose.”

People Ifs Film Loses Watches Risk Boundaries Bunch Features Pushing Festivals Shorts Film Festivals

Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we...should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth.”

Ifs Should Motivational Life Is Loses Wealth Our Lives Faith In God Cheerful Keep Smiling

Author:Vallabhbhai Patel

“I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call paranoid - because they are in such danger. I don't know if it's really paranoia because they are in great danger. Terrible things happen to them, and they lose everything. How could they not become at the very least severely depressed?”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Happens Loses Danger Wind Terrible Ill Things Happen Bags Homeless Terrible Things Paranoia Paranoid Mentally Ill

Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“I received a phone call from the chief executive of my principal sponsor [Marlboro], who actually told me that it would be in the interests of the sport if I started to lose races. Which, I mean, just blew my mind.”

Ifs Mind Mean Would Be Sports Interest Loses Race Phones Chiefs Executives Principal Phone Calls Sponsors Chief Executives

Author:Ron Dennis

“Be grateful. Find something to be grateful for. Don't do too many things that make you feel like you deserve to lose because we do program our own computers. I believe there is a plus and a minus column and if you end up on the minus column, your own conscience will make you lose.”

Ifs Feels Believe Ends I Believe Loses Like You Computer Conscience Deserve Program Grateful Plus Be Grateful Columns Minus

Author:Jim Carrey

“If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.”

Ifs World Ends Bigs Happens Loses Differences Lines Half Economic Century Species Stability

Author:E. O. Wilson

“If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.”

Ifs Trying Littles Two Motivational Loses Imagination Ideals Sight Extremes Immense Idealism Brutes Practicality Two Extremes

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“It is only necessary to seek one thing: to be with Jesus. The man who remains with Jesus is rich, even if he is poor with regard to material things. Who ever desires the earthly more than the heavenly loses both the earthly and the heavenly. But whoever seeks the heavenly is Lord of the whole world.”

Ifs Men World Inspirational Whole Christian Desire Jesus Loses Religious Poor Lord Rich One Thing He Man Materials Regard Remains Whole World Heavenly Orthodox Material Things

Author:Ignatius Bryanchaninov

“If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.”

Ifs Inspirational Christian Loses Religious Wealth Orthodox

Author:Saint Basil

“The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.”

Ifs World Would Be Loses Influence Dangerous Policy Possibility Active Broke Dangerous Places Unilateralism

Author:Denis Healey

“Sport for me is about inspiring kids. Here's the rules, here's the play area, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is all about teaching kids how to approach life. If we're not playing sport to benefit kids, I'm not really sure why we play sport.”

Ifs Sometimes Play Kids Winning Sports Loses Teaching Benefits Approach Areas Playing Sports Teaching Kids

Author:Russell Crowe

“I've never deprived myself of anything. I've always thought if you need to lose weight, carry on eating what you like, just eat less. I don't agree with doing without pasta or bread, it's too harsh.”

Ifs Needs Loses Eating Weight Agree Bread Harsh Deprived Pasta Lose Weight

Author:Donna Air

“If I love the character and if I love the story, and the character requires me to be shirtless, or if it requires me to lose 30 pounds, I'm ready to do it.”

Ifs Character Stories Loses Ready Pounds

Author:Taylor Lautner

“Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.”

Ifs Thinking Book Might Film Loses Acceptable Great Film

Author:Paul Auster

“To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.”

Ifs Wells Littles Character Loses Pay Virtue Luck Shut Up Beaten Crow Brag

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?”

Ifs Literature Loses Alternatives Mask Abandon Abandoned

Book:The Comedians

Source: The Comedians

“I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.”

Ifs Thinking Years Matter Happens Earth Guy Turns Loses Space Millions Sun Theory Baseball Giants Cosmic This Guy Burn Out Snowball

Author:Bill Lee

“You will learn that at higher levels of energy, our fields of prayer act very quickly to bring us exactly what we expect. If we fear, it brings to us what we fear. If we hate, it brings us more of what we hate. Thankfully when we go into these negative expectations, our prayer-fields collapse rather quickly because we lose our connection with the divine and are no longer outflowing love. But a fear expectation can still be powerful. That is why you must monitor your expectations carefully and set your field consciously.”

Ifs Stills Hate Energy Loses Prayer Levels Powerful Fields Divine Higher Expectations Negative Connections Collapse Our Prayers Higher Level

Author:James Redfield

“If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.”

Ifs Writing Art Voice Loses Player Arms Baseball Singers Gamer Baseball Player More Knowledge

Author:Mickey Spillane

“I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do, if it were the last hour of my life.”

Ifs Way Moments Use Might Lasts Time Hours Loses Resolve Profitable Life Time Use Of Time

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?”

Ifs World Soul Matter Whole Loses Gains Whole World My Soul What Matters

Author:Craig Thompson

“I didn't want us to abnormal. I didn't want all this chaos and underworld crap... but that's where we'd come from. The choas was part of us. Part of what we were. And I was afraid if we lost it completely, we might lose part of ourselves.”

Ifs Want Might Lost Loses Chaos Crap Want U Abnormal Underworld

Author:Kevin Brooks

“It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator.”

Ifs Would Be Loses Easier Weight Lose Weight Refrigerators Replacements Handy

Author:Hugh Allen

“Alcohol is like anything else. It's only as bad as the person it's being poured into. If it's used to heighten an occasion, or to take an edge off stress, I don't see a problem. Trouble starts when you either lose control and let the bottle run you, or when you believe its promises of immortality. You realize that no matter how much you punish yourself, you always seem to wake up the next day. Pretty soon you're convinced that you will never die. When that happens I guess it is time to look for help before your life becomes one long, lost weekend.”

Source: The Wrong Stuff

“What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?”

Ifs World Wells Important Evil Loses Worry Well Being Good And Evil Our World

Book:The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

Source: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

“To follow your life's guidance, you may have to reassign some seemingly important things to 'unimportant.' If you believe that pleasing your horrible boss or having a spotless house is a higher priority than playing with your children or sleeping off the flu, be prepared for a long and strenuous battle against destiny. Also, be prepared to lose.”

“If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.”

Ifs Way Loses Panic Good Way

Author:Ted Turner

“If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.”

“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our Liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections. If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good.”

Ifs Should May Ends Government Choices Nations Loses Party Liberty Danger Fairs Vote Sight Independent Election Majority Corruption Determined Purity Voting Virtuous Unfaithful Artifice

Author:John Adams

“The surest way to identify those who won't succeed at weight loss is that they tend to say things like "My goal is to lose ten pounds." Weight targets often work in the short run. But if you need willpower to keep the weight off, you're doomed in the long run. The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.”

Ifs Way Needs Long Running Goal Loses Loss Succeed Ten Weight Pounds Target Long Runs Doomed Willpower Weight Loss Bypass

Author:Scott Adams

“What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?”

Ifs Men Made Spirit Causes Loses Silence Lord Promise Gains Profit Delight Humble Adversaries

Book:The works of the rev. John Newton

Source: The works of the rev. John Newton

“One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbour; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us.”

Ifs Persons Done Eye Loses Standing Invisible Occasions Serving Principal Serving God Neighbour Christian Service

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: With the Last Corrections of the Author

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: With the Last Corrections of the Author

“If you lose your best cornerback and punter, I'd say that's a double loss.”

Ifs Funny Loses Loss Nfl Punters

Author:John Madden

“I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Art Artist Loses Talent Excellence Definitions Tied

Author:Richard Price

“If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.”

Ifs Needs Done Whole Together Sides Loses Party Identity Folks Accomplish Aisle

Author:Tom Allen

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