Thinking What If Quotes

• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.43, Princeton University Press

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• I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  "Core Values: Apple Founder Steve Jobs". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbclearn.com. May 25, 2006.

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• The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Business, Work

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• I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

  Darcey Steinke

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. That way, you don't worry about people and don't waste your time thinking, 'What if he cheats on me?' You can't control that.

  Crystal Reed

  Thinking, Control Myself, People

  "Exclusive Interview: Teen Wolf's Crystal Reed". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. May 27, 2011.

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• I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if the engine blow up?' 'What if a fool's got a bomb on it?'

  Muhammad Ali

  Blow, Thinking, What If

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I think you can't go into any story-breaking process thinking, 'What if they come off as unlikeable?' You just gotta break the story because if you know who your character is, the story will tell you. The story will dictate and say, "This feels off-kilter for this particular person."

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Character, Thinking, What If

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I’ve always had a soft spot for dreamers – not those who waste their time thinking ‘what if’ but the ones who look to the sky and say ‘why can’t I shoot for the moon?’

  Richard Branson

  Moon, Thinking, Sky

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• So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'

  Eli Roth

  Stars, School, Night

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 17, 2009.

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• The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

  Tamora Pierce

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Philip Pullman, Tamora Pierce, and Christopher Paolini Talk Fantasy Fiction". Interview with Dave Weich, www.highbeam.com. July 31, 2003.

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