“I've got better things to do than to find my individuality in that particular area. But if it's important to me, I've got to seek my own path.” IfsImportantMy OwnPathParticularAreasIndividualityThings To DoBetter Things To Do Author:Lewis Schiff
“If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?” PeopleIfsThinkingSoundExistenceCompanyClassPathMiddleSecurityProduceComfortSucceedProgramConnectionsRemainsPreparedIllBrilliantHandleErasPostsMiddle ClassCynicalOccasionalRecessionsEruptionMbaLarge CompaniesGreat RecessionMba Programs Author:Lewis Schiff
“I think it's really important to look at the walk and not the talk, and if you look at the walk, our paths [with Hillary Clinton] are extremely divergent.” IfsThinkingLooksImportantWalksPathClintonDivergent Author:Jill Stein
“My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back and see the intense times of confusion and challenge, and see that if you keep walking through them, they can lead to times of great satisfaction and reward.” IfsLooksChallengesPathWalkingRewardsSatisfactionIntenseGreat ThingsConfusionSmoothElders Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the church or seen as less important than being a senior minister in a large, prosperous congregation; but I don't believe that for a minute. I think this is absolutely critical work in the life of the church; and I think my path in life would have been much different if it hadn't been for my youth minister, Burt Randle, and a series of campus ministers in both college and graduate school.” IfsThinkingBelieveHas BeensImportantDifferentSchoolLife IsChurchPathMinutesExampleYouthCollegeSeriesWorkersDon't BelieveCriticalMinistersGraduatesSeniorProsperousCampusCongregationMarginalizedGraduate School Author:Parker J. Palmer
“If we have access to nuclear energy, that adds to our maneuverability in ensuring energy security as India marches on, on the path to accelerated development.” IfsEnergyPathSecurityDevelopmentIndiaAddAccessNuclearMarchNuclear EnergyEnergy Security Author:Manmohan Singh
“My conjecture is that most people will refuse to let go, even when their lives have become boring (at least in comparisons with possible lives lived by new generations). If this happens, there will eventually be no room for new generations. A kind of collective irrationality will lead to a bleak life for the last generation that decides to stay around. Unless we put and end to the human race (through global warming, for example), before this happens, individual egoism will block the path to a better world.” PeopleIfsWorldHumansKindEndsHappensLastsIndividualRoomsRacePathGenerationsExampleLetting GoRefuseBoringBlockHuman RaceGlobal WarmingCollectivesComparisonEgoismNew GenerationBleakIrrationalityConjecture Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“We can meet the obligations of Social security and Medicare. If we stay on the path that your party has us on, we'll be in a mountain range of debt and we're gonna face hard choices.” IfsHardFacesChoicesSocialPartyPathSecurityMountainDebtObligationRangeSocial SecurityMedicareMountain Ranges Author:Mike Pence
“I have chosen a different path when talking about the failings of the Republican leadership. I don't make it personal, and many other people do, and I suspect maybe they're not aware of that. If everybody's dumping on 'em, they're gonna conclude that everybody is.” PeopleIfsDifferentTalkingPathFailingRepublicanChosenEmsSuspectsDifferent Paths Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If someone comes in without having been on a spiritual path for long, he or she still will understand what is happening to them in their human lives, what is happening through the evolution, how their humanness is playing such an important role at this time, and where they are in their lives with their inner feelings. It actually gives them a support system, a base from which they can start to evolve naturally within themselves through the understanding of our humanness, of our imperfection.” IfsGivingHumansLongStillsImportantFeelingsSpiritualUnderstandingRolesSupportPathEvolutionHappeningsEvolveHuman LifeImperfectionSpiritual PathHumannessSupport SystemsInner FeelingsHumanness Is Author:Christine McCormick Day
“If marriage isn't something for me, but I like living with someone or being committed, I can choose this other path as long as she's okay with it but I would hardly say that that should be what other people do. Some people want that, that written paper, that commitment and that means something to them. And I don't in the least look down on it.” PeopleIfsWantShouldLooksMeanLongI CanPathWrittenPaperCommitmentOkayCommitted Author:Robert Greene
“If you lose interest in the dharma, then you might be reborn in a place where you are unlikely to meet with the dharma. And then you're completely off the path.” IfsMightInterestLosesPathWhere You AreUnlikelyDharmaReborn Author:Tenzin Palmo
“If she Hillary Clinton win just two of the three big battleground states - North Carolina, Florida and Virginia - she will have shut off Trump's path to 270 electoral votes, even if he wins the other toss-up states.” IfsTwoStatesBigsThreeWinningPathTrumpVoteClintonFloridaVirginiaCarolinaTossNorth CarolinaBattleground Author:Mara Liasson
“If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and freedom of religion, freedom of choice, freedom of assembly, and if there is no democratic process and no way to change the order of things by reason and peace and love and so on, and if, as a result of that, certain ideas in which you believe are being crushed, then I think the only way you can defend yourself against this violence is in using violence of your own.” IfsThinkingWayBelieveIdeasReasonCertainOrderChoicesProcessResultsPathViolenceSpeechAnd LoveDemocraticDetermineFreedom Of SpeechCrushedAssemblyFreedom Of ChoicePeace And LoveFreedom Of ReligionDemocratic ProcessFreedom Of Assembly Author:Pierre Trudeau
“There are literally endless options and possibilities, and often no clear or obvious path in how to make that choice, and nobody to tell you to go this way or that. But somehow, it works itself out if you trust in the process, which is often easier said than done.” IfsWaySaidDoneChoicesProcessPathClearPossibilityEasierObviousEndlessEasier Said Than Done Author:St. Lucia
“An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact of life that they will discover soon enough if they try to pursue an independent path.” IfsMenTryingEnoughFactsPathAchieveResponsibleIndependentPursueCrucialPremisesFacts Of LifeExaltedSoon Enough Author:Noam Chomsky
“The United States has been becoming worse year after year after year for decades, and it's guaranteed to continue down that path if we don't change something.” IfsYearsHas BeensStatesUnitedUnited StatesPathBecomingDecadesDon't Change Author:David Swanson
“If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened progressive control, preserve a habitable climate, and rein in the dangers of nuclear and other warfare, then we should. However, if we think it's more likely that California can achieve those goals by secession, then we should go down that path. There's no question. It's an absolute moral imperative.” IfsThinkingShouldGovernmentGoalMoralPathAchieveDangerGainsAbsolutesClimateNuclearPreservesCaliforniaEnlightenedProgressiveWarfareImperativesReinsSecession Author:David Swanson
“The Atonement of Jesus Christ is powerful enough to reach out and cleanse you if you are repentant and give up your sinful behavior, but I urge you not to embark on that path because repentance is not easy.” IfsGivingEnoughJesusEasyChristPowerfulPathGiving UpBehaviorJesus ChristUrgesRepentanceReach OutAtonement Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“When we generally make healthy choices about food (or wise choices about life), we tend to move in the right direction, living as we believe God wants us to live. If we make an intentional exception for a special treat or for a diversion, that might not be a big deal. But if we step off the best path, we're tempted to detour into more unwise choices. In that case, your decision does matter.” IfsWantBelieveDoeMatterBigsMightMovingChoicesDecisionDealsStepsCasesPathWiseSpecialHealthyTreatsExceptionBelieve In GodTemptedWant UBig DealRight DirectionDiversionUnwiseDetoursWise ChoicesHealthy Choices Author:Craig Groeschel
“The thing that would probably surprise most people was that Dr. Martin Luther King was a very reluctant leader. He felt very shocked at times that he had been chosen for this path, but he also understood that he was chosen for this path. He had several moments of acute doubt as to if he was up for the task - when people were injured in the protests he took it very personally, let alone when they were killed.” PeopleIfsMomentsFeltLeaderPathDoubtKingsUnderstoodTasksSurpriseChosenProtestDrsShockedLutherInjuredReluctantDr Martin Luther King Author:David Oyelowo
“If we have a Democratic Senate I think the Republican Party will wake up to the reality that their opposition to comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship is a losing proposition. That Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric and derogatory comments do not really work in a national election. And I think we'll have a better chance to actually get something done.” IfsThinkingDoneRealityChancePartyPathTrumpRepublicanLosingWake UpElectionDemocraticImmigrationReformOppositionCommentSenateRhetoricCitizenshipRepublican PartyPropositionsComprehensiveImmigration ReformDerogatory Author:Hillary Clinton
“Lord, I'm available to be your ambassador and if there is someone you would like me to speak with today you can bring that person across my path.” IfsPersonsTodaySpeakLordPathAvailableLike MeAmbassadors Author:Vonette Bright
“My whole life I saw how the violence my father created had come back to my family and I thought that I would only make things worse for my mother and my sister if I sought to avenge my father. I had to dare to take a path of peace.” IfsWholeMotherFatherPathSawsViolenceMy FamilyDareWhole LifeMy Sister Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“If you do the right thing, the right thing will come down the path.” IfsPathRight Thing Author:Anthony Green
“If you start getting yourself into just doing stuff for the money, even if it's a desperate situation, I just firmly believe that if you stick it out through that, then something right will come down the path.” IfsBelieveStuffSituationPathSticksDesperateDesperate Situations Author:Anthony Green
“If you look at cable networks, they almost always start licensing content wherever they can, so they can build a subscriber base. But then they start doing their own content; it's a pretty well-trodden path.” IfsWellsLooksPathCablesLicensing Author:Reed Hastings
“Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, "I can't believe this happened to me." And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street? It makes them think, "I must be on the wrong path." But what if something you thought was bad was the best thing that ever happened to you? What if that was part of your path?” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveKindI CanIdeasHappensFacesPovertyPathHappenedStreetsOrdinaryExpectationsAbsolutesEverydayIllnessBest ThingsWhat IfContemptCatastropheOrdinary PeopleWrong PathEveryday Things Author:Caroline Myss
“If you want to know for sure that you are on the right path, here's your clue: You're not put in a position where you feel like you have to negotiate your sense of integrity, which is an act of betrayal. You don't feel like you have to compromise who you are.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsPathPositionLike YouIntegrityWho You AreBetrayalCompromiseClueRight Path Author:Caroline Myss