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“I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.”

Ifs Inspirational Writing Wish Easy Cases Products Checks Developing Microsoft

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.”

Source: Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science

“The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If that were the case, we'd live in a perfect world.”

Ifs World Humans Ideas Wish Human Beings Perfect Christianity Cases Saved Nonsense Savior A Perfect World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case.”

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“It's suggested that enlightenment has some tremendous compassion, some driving necessity to help humanity. I don't think that's the case at all. I think humanity wishes it were the case since it's humanity that writes the various scriptures.”

Thinking Writing Helping Humanity Wish Compassion Cases Enlightenment Various Driving Scripture

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.”

Giving May Beautiful Wish Cases Figures Mark Painter Spoil

Author:Plutarch

“When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.”

“Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.”

Desire Wish My Own Cases Learning Letting Go

Book:Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power

Source: Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power

“... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.”

Writing Past Wish Felt Cases Source Ten Essentials Originals Oneself Nine

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.”

Wanted Wish Cases Saws Cold Research Picks Police Court Spots Range Pockets Hung Detectives Subway Firing Homicide Autopsy Court Cases Pervs Cold Case

Author:Mariska Hargitay

“I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.”

Ifs World Doe States Care Wish Marriage Cases Advice This World Husband Married England Folks Quitting Fancy Disagree Bad Husband

Author:Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

“It seems that for some people the idea of compassion entails a complete disregard for or even a sacrifice of their own interests. This is not the case. In fact, you first of all have to have a wish to be happy yourself - if you don't love yourself like that, how can you love others?”

People Ifs Firsts Ideas Facts Seems Wish Interest Compassion Cases Sacrifice Love You Love Yourself Being Happy Disregard

Author:Dalai Lama

“I am a feral person. I have no bank account. I am unemployable. I own nothing. I lose my shoes sometimes when I go out. It sounds like I'm making a case for my own exceptionalism, which I suppose I am, but I wish it wasn't true.”

Persons Sometimes Wish Sound Loses My Own Cases Accounts Shoes Bank Accounts Exceptionalism

Author:Tony Burgess

“I was so completely anxious before I had a child, but now my biggest worry is something happening to her, so anything other than that I can handle. That's not to say I'm calm, because that would be b****cks! I wish it were the case, but it's getting better as I get older.”

Children I Can Would Be Wish Cases Worry Happenings Calm Handle Get Better Anxious

Author:Anna Friel