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“Where America has got to move is not growth for the sake of growth, but it`s got to move to a society that provides a high quality of life for all of our people. In other words, if people have health care as a right, as do the people of every other major country, then there's less worry about growth. If people have educational opportunity and their kids can go to college and they have child care, then there's less worry about growth for the sake of growth.”

People Ifs Children Country Care Kids America Moving Opportunity Growth Quality Worry College Majors Sake Educational Health Care Quality Of Life High Quality Child Care

Author:Bernie Sanders

“What I was really overwhelmed with by Africa was its tremendous natural beauty; I got to go to some pretty amazing places. Every other weekend we got a day or two off and go on a safari or the natural wonders of Africa and if anyone gets the opportunity to go there, it's something you have to do in your lifetime.”

Ifs Two Opportunity Natural Wonder Goes On Lifetime Weekend Overwhelmed Safari Amazing Places Natural Wonders

Author:Edward Zwick

“To be sure, not all moments are equally fleeting. Some moments last longer than others. And certain events do reoccur more than once and even recur repeatedly. Sometimes you do get more than one chance. Sometimes you don't. It helps to know how long a window of opportunity you have and if you'll get another chance.”

Ifs Knows Long Sometimes Moments Helping Lasts Certain Opportunity Chance Know How Events Window Fleeting Another Chance One Chance Window Of Opportunity

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.”

Ifs Want Feels Persons Play Form Joy Song Turns Three Opportunity Minutes Love You Unique Musical Length Say I Love You Unique Opportunities

Author:Marsha Norman

“When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.”

People Ifs Want Writing Asks Opportunity Water Answers Pressure Come Up Studios Warm Ask Me Hobbies Surf Skis No Pressure

Author:Scott Weiland

“If we dont figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, were not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.”

Ifs Way Real Care School Jobs Opportunity Figures Healthy Access Health Care Decent Productive Equity Housing Good School Healthy Society

Author:Tim Wise

“But in our time women are no longer subject to the will of men. Quite the contrary. They have been given every opportunity to win their independence and if, after all this time, they still have not liberated themselves and thrown off their shackles, we can only arrive at one conclusion: there are no shackles to throw off.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Stills Opportunity Winning Given Subjects Independence Contrary Conclusion Our Time Thrown Liberated Shackles

Book:The Manipulated Man

Source: The Manipulated Man

“I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.”

People Ifs Hate Opportunity Company I Hate Currents Frustrated

Author:Irene Rosenfeld

“The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.”

Ifs Able Opportunity Wonderful Skills Math Good Math Math Skills

Author:Marcus du Sautoy

“I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.”

Ifs Mind Next Opportunity Waiting Creating Dishes Clicks

Author:Paul Prudhomme

“I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind that God should have all of William Booth there was. And if there is anything of power in the Salvation Army, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.”

“Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.”

Ifs Opportunity Obstacles

Author:Tucker Max

“You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.”

Ifs Jobs Opportunity Teaching Missing Return Anxiety Optimism Performances Strive Average Cures Improving Exceed Teaching Someone

Book:The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work

Source: The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work

“Senator Kerry does not support our troops. If he had won the election, there wouldn't be any troops left in Iraq. President Bush, on the other hand, has given our troops an opportunity to fight without end. That's creating jobs. In fact, the president's policies helped create 104 more job openings last month. Now who's stupid, Senator?”

“If the Hamas people had the opportunity, they would kill the maximum number of Israelis, which would be all. And, Israel has the opportunity to kill way more, and they do not.”

People Ifs Way Would Be Opportunity Numbers Israel Maximum Hamas Maximum Number

Author:Bill Maher

“Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won't be the only one missing out or losing out. When you lack the courage to chase the Wild Goose, the opportunity costs are staggering. Who might not hear about the love of God if you don't seize the opportunity to tell them? Who might be stuck in poverty, stuck in ignorance, stuck in pain if you're not there to help free them? Where might the advance of God's kingdom in the world stall out because you weren't there on the front lines?”

“If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.”

Ifs May Use Opportunity Virtue Have Courage

Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.”

Ifs Giving May Suffering Opportunity Given Our Lives Glory Faults Power Of God

Book:Just Give Me Jesus

Source: Just Give Me Jesus

“We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.”

Ifs Needs Mind Real Age Young Opportunity Imagination Succeed Skills Young Age Instill

Author:Michael N. Castle

“It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Giving Enough Dream Care Opportunity Strong Courage Willing Pursue Strong Enough

Author:Samuel Smiles

“What a lot of people don't understand is that when you change your thinking, when you accept different concepts, then life mirrors those for you. If you can get the concept that you're worthy and loveable and that you deserve to have a better life, life starts bringing those opportunities to you, because that's your belief system.”

People Ifs Thinking Different Opportunity Belief Accepting Concepts Deserve Mirrors Worthy Better Life Belief Systems

Author:Louise Hay

“It just depends on what you decide to have in your heart. That's what I've learned. That's where I am at this stage in my life is if we can fill ourselves with love and appreciation for, and be in a state of gratitude... Every event of your life you have an opportunity to be in a state of gratitude for it.”

Ifs Heart States Life Is Opportunity Stage Events Depends Gratitude Appreciation I've Learned Love And Appreciation

Author:Wayne Dyer

“There was a time in my acting career, where I was trying to figure out if acting was the thing to do. You know? I was always on this journey of trying to learn more about humanity and people - using the characters and situations as guideposts. I could switch up and do another job as long as I'm continuing that same search and that same journey of revealing my connection to humanity and the universe. And directing gives me the opportunity to explore ALL these different lives and their connection to their environments and the people. And I get to connect to the wires of the universe.”

“Keeping your head down and doing the best job you can in the beginning gives you the opportunity to be evaluated on the basis of the contributions you are making. [Then], when you feel strongly about your work or about a position, you'll be given more attention [than] if you hadn't done that constantly.”

Ifs Giving Feels Done Jobs Opportunity Given Attention Position Bases Down And Contribution Best Job

Author:Hillary Clinton

“In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.”

Ifs Action Culture Spirituality Opportunity Left Practice Darkness Support Goodness Buddhist Realms Offering Monk

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Give as much as you can at every possible opportunity. If you can't afford to give money, give your time. If you can't afford the time, give your heart. Blessings come back to you in unpredictable ways.”

Ifs Way Inspirational Giving Heart Opportunity Blessing Unpredictable

Author:Rita Zahara

“Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.”

Ifs Said Opportunity Given Silence Golden Silence Is Maxims Silence Is Golden Undecided

Book:The Letters of Lewis Carroll: ca. 1837-1885

Source: The Letters of Lewis Carroll: ca. 1837-1885

“... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?”

People Ifs World War Hard Might Suffering Next Opportunity Knowing Civilization Horror Losing Army Fingers War Of The Worlds World War Ii Loved Ones World War I Great Opportunity

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, high culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat.”

“There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.”

Ifs Men Doe Certain Opportunity Differences Errors Temptation God Love Falsehood Tempting

Author:Blaise Pascal

“There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.”

Ifs Opportunity Moral Equal Fairs Accomplish Granted Positively Attainment Lofty Equal Opportunity

Author:Major Taylor

“If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the knowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.”

Ifs World Wells May Children Opportunity Given Nations Education Risk Youth Capacity Function Neglect Contrast Prospects Demise Disorganization

Book:2 Wrlds Childhood

Source: 2 Wrlds Childhood

“Yes, NFL players deserve to be paid well. Unfortunately, economic realities are forcing everyone to make tough choices and the NFL is no different. These are not easy negotiations, but the outcome can be positive. If both sides give a little, everyone, including fans, will get a lot and the game will improve through innovation. Even in difficult economic times, a new CBA presents us with the opportunity to secure the future of our game.”

“This is an opportunity to create a better future for the NFL, to improve the game for our fans, and to expand the economic benefits for the players and teams. Staying with the status quo is not an option. The world has changed for everyone, including the NFL and our fans. We must get better in everything we do ... If both sides compromise and give a little, everyone will get a lot, especially the fans.”

Ifs World Giving Littles Opportunity Games Sides Player Team Fans Economic Changed Benefits Including Compromise Get Better Nfl Staying Both Sides Status Quo Better Future

Author:Roger Goodell

“If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.”

People Ifs Mean Opportunity Havens

Author:Frank Sinatra

“...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex chains. It that meant poverty for myself and my boy then poverty we should have to suffer. If it meant social ostracism, if it meant relinquishing the literary success that lay within my grasp, then let the success go.”

Ifs Should Suffering Opportunity Social Sex Boys Poverty Battle Should Have Lays Chains My Boys Relinquishing Ostracism Social Ostracism

Book:A woman of fifty

Source: A woman of fifty

“I would die to record in space. That would be the coolest. If I got the option of, going into outer space and hanging out there for a day, and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow. I'd be happy just hanging out between the moon and the Earth, getting a view.”

Ifs Home Might Would Be Today Earth Dies Next Opportunity Waiting Space Views Technology Records Dying Tomorrow Moon Hanging Out Next Day Coming Back Back Home Outer Space Waiting Around

Author:Ariel Pink

“The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as conventional as you can imagine: I wanted to know if it was really true that it was the land of opportunity, of democracy, and individual liberty.”

Source: Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“Any performer would love to have the opportunity to be able to express themselves in many different areas. If you feel confident in those areas, you would hope to have the opportunity to do them, whether it's drama, comedy, musical, or whatever your interests are.”

Ifs Feels Different Able Opportunity Interest Comedy Drama Areas Musical Performers

Author:Bryan Cranston

“What serialized cable dramas have given us is the opportunity to not simply tell the same story with slightly different words and different costumes, every week. people are really mining the ability of storytellers to tell a long form story that goes from A to Z, and to trust that an audience will follow that. If they miss it, over the course of the week, they can watch it online or buy the DVD. There are so many different ways of interacting with it. Storytelling in television is getting more complex and more nuanced.”

“I would love to start directing. I just hope to find the right thing and, if I was afforded the opportunity, I think it would be something great. It would be really hard, but I think it would be a great privilege.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Would Be Opportunity Privilege Right Thing

Author:Josh Peck

“I think that what's important as a director is to give your actors the feeling that they're protected, the feeling of confidence, the feeling that if they make mistakes, then as a director, you'll know how to help them. If you're able to convey that, then the actors will give you wonderful performances. As well as the author, you have to write scenes that give the actors the opportunity to show what they're capable of.”

“If you will keep being your best right where you are, you will come into more favor, promotion and opportunity than you ever imagined.”

Ifs Opportunity Favors Believe In Yourself Self Motivation Where You Are Self Development Promotion Continuous Improvement Hard Work Pays Off

Author:Joel Osteen

“Any path you take, if you commit with passion, you can be successful. By going to business school, certain opportunities may open up to you sooner. But it's who you are and how you take advantage of your opportunities that matter.”

Ifs May Matter School Certain Passion Opportunity Path Successful Advantage Who You Are Commit Being Successful Up To You Business School

Author:Dan Rosensweig

“If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.”

Ifs Giving Enough Opportunity Winning Jokes Satisfaction Compensation Good Will Injured Restitution Personal Satisfaction

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. My father was a busy man... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son.”

Ifs Men Two Father Opportunity Hours Son Months Amount Down And Add Busy Two Months Father And Son Busy Man

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Trying Doe Opportunity Given Ready Giving Up Difficulty Perseverance Encounters Prime Given Up Keep Trying Prime Of Life

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.”

Ifs Men Giving Bigs Lying Opportunity Black Amount Cents Falsehood Cheat

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“It is our argument that a sufficiently low price can turn a security of mediocre quality into a sound investment opportunity - provided that the buyer is informed and experienced and he practices adequate diversification. For, if the price is low enough to create a substantial margin of safety, the security thereby meets our criterion of investment.”

Ifs Enough Turns Opportunity Sound Quality Practice Security Lows Argument Safety Investment Investing Mediocre Adequate Criteria Margins Buyers Diversification

Author:Benjamin Graham

“I tell you this: You always get what you create, and you are always creating. I do not make a judgment about the creations that you conjure, I simply empower you to conjure more-and more and more and more. If you don't like what you've just created, choose again. My job, as God, is to always give you that opportunity.”

Ifs Inspirational Giving Jobs Opportunity Religious Creation Judgment Creating Empowering Conjuring

Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

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