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“I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.”

People Ifs World Wells Would Be Young Found Practice Taught Only Love Love One Another Lovable

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark Card descriptions of what creates enlightenment. And if their descriptions were correct, then everyone who is in religious practice would be enlightened.”

People Ifs Thinking World Different Would Be Religious Practice Enlightenment Cards Description Enlightened Hallmark Religious Practices Hallmark Card

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The thing is that what you try to do when you play is you try to play not below a certain level. In other words, it can be a special day where it would be phenomenal, but if it's not below a certain level, that's the goal. You know, that's what you want to do. That's why you practice and so on.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Play Would Be Certain Goal Levels Practice Special What You Want Phenomenal

Author:Itzhak Perlman

“Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.”

World Would Be Law Common Practice Teacher Worst Acceptance Goodness Entertainment Customs Justified

Book:Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney

Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney

“Do we know what practices would be effective in resisting aliens? Wouldn't the public have to be convinced, in all countries, that there is such a threat? When have the major nations on this planet shown they can agree on any military course of action? Earthlings are already spending a trillion dollars a year on things military. Where would the money come from? Krugman seems to be suggesting more lies are what is needed. How about everybody cutting their military budgets in half and feeding people instead?”

“I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice.”

Trying Play Bigs Would Be Company Practice Walking Golf Naked Gallery Choir

Book:DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE

Source: DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE

“The Lord showed me by vision and revelation what would happen if we did not stop this practice... all ordinances would be stopped... many men would be made prisoners... I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write.”

Ifs Men Writing Made Happens Would Be Vision Lord Practice Revelations Prisoner Polygamy Ordinances

Author:John Andreas Widtsoe

“By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.”

Ifs World Way Feels Mean Would Be Practice Clear Meditation Influence Be Good Confusion Sane Neurosis Dynamite

Book:True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art

Source: True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art

“Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.”

Ifs Giving Would Be Age Christian Growth Practice Conversion Peaceful Rely Communist Missionary Cult Viruses Offence Religion Christian

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.”

Ifs Wells Would Be Practice Pulpit

Author:Horace Greeley

“the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for us musicians if, arrived at a given emotional crisis in our work, we could simply stick in a few bars of Brahms or Schubert. Indeed many composers have no hesitation in so doing. But I have never heard the practice defended; possibly because that hideous symbol of petty larceny, the inverted comma, cannot well be worked into a musical score.”

Source: Streaks of life

“In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.”

World Would Be Values Individual Practice Cases Ideals Add Ideal World

Author:Gary Hamel

“I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.”

“The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers.”

Ifs World Wells Matter Would Be Process Interest Practice Standards Workers Peaceful Well Being Consumers Shops Factories Defining Employers Collaborators Peaceful Places

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.”

Ifs Wells Would Be Causes Simple Powerful Common Practice Advice Limits Ill Breathe Well Being Breathing Just One Ill Health

Author:Andrew Weil

“The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.”

People Would Be Practice Lessons Pity Good Man Conceit Dishonorable Keyholes

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“Perhaps we should stop talking about being faithful to have a quiet time with God each day, as if we were doing something to earn a reward. It would be better to talk about the privilege of spending time with the God of the universe and the importance for our own sake of being consistent in that practice.”

Source: Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love

“I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.”

Ifs Doe I Can Seems Would Be Practice Justify

Author:Chael Sonnen

“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.”

People Firsts Looks Would Be Action Practice Design Words Of Wisdom Method Constant Significant African American Customs

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.”

Ifs World Years Humans Would Be Human Beings Love Is Vision Practice This World Convincing

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Show me a sexual practice that involves ice cubes and hot sauce, and I will show you a sexual practice that would be improved without them.”

Shows Would Be Practice Hot Ice Show Me Sauce Cubes Hot Sauce

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

“The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is being spilled in the merriest way, as if it was champagne," Dostoevsky says. That raises the problem of justice, what it might mean in an unjust world and whether there can be an ethics and a political practice that would be able to face and face down the injustice of the present. How might we begin to think about that?”

Ifs Thinking World Way Mean Problem Might Would Be Able Faces Political Sides Justice Practice Blood Ethics Raises Injustice Disappointment Realization Unjust Champagne

Author:Simon Critchley

“Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to something demonstrably less legible than something else would be if we could get used to it, we should make no effort to scrap the existing thing. This was done by the Florentines and Romans of the fifteenth century; it requires simply good sense in the originators & good will in the rest of us.”

Ifs Should Done Would Be Used Effort Practice Century Amount Accustomed Good Will Good Sense Scrap Legibility

Author:Eric Gill

“One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.”

Ifs Important Would Be Simple Principles Practice Simple Life

Author:Guy Finley

“The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.”

Should Kind Two Matter Play Would Be Asks Hours Brain Practice Four Minutes Fingers Eight Active Concentration Maximum Pupils

Author:Leopold Auer

“If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.”

Ifs Would Be Practice Impossible Planets Findings Tasks Odds Galaxy Spaceships

Author:Richard Dawkins

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