What If Quotes - Page 11

• I don’t think there's ever been a point in my career where I've said, 'I've made it.' What does that mean, 'I've made it?' Made it to what? If you say, 'I've made it.' then are you finished? I don't want to be finished. I don't want to quit.

  Reba McEntire

  Mean, Thinking, Careers

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• Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do. How much room do individual rights leave for the state?

  Robert Nozick

  Strong, Rights, Groups

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

  Amory Lovins

  Motivation, Inspiration, Energy

  "Climate Change: No Breakthroughs Needed". sustainability.asu.edu. June 27, 2016.

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• Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and you don't need to made that particular mistake again, but at least you won't get old wondering what if you had.

  Garrison Keillor

  Dream, Mistake, Adventure

  Garrison Keillor (2009). “A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable!

  Viktor Schauberger

  Tragedy, Earth, Fool

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.95, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for the United States and Mexico. We hear a lot of extravagant numbers and claims made, but very few hard facts. We don't really know what, if any, burdens illegal migrants impose on the US economy or the social welfare apparatus, and those issues must be clarified.

  Ernesto Zedillo

  Numbers, Issues, Migration

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• What if history was changed? slavery reversed
  Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse?

  Fredro Starr

  Rap, Boys, White

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• What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?

  Reuben Heyday Margolin

  Motivation, Inspiration, Our World

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• What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can't live without each other, so we deal with it? And then we could spend our lives together - in misery, but happy to not be apart.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sex, Fighting, Bad Relationship

  "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2006.

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• I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

  Alex Haley

  Dream, People, Tests

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• Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what ifs' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win.

  Shannon Miller

  Sports, Dream, Fun

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• What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Heart, Joy

  Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan (1905). “The Story of My Life”

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• We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

  Maria Shriver

  Inspirational, Accomplishment, Empowering

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?

  Douglas Coupland

  Cat, Technology, Tv Shows

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• You might say what if I screw up? Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screw-up!

  Tony Robbins

  Might, Screw Ups, Action

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• Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Work, Believe, Passion

  Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron E. Rogers (1998). “A Simpler Way”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ambition, Vanity, Words Of Wisdom

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Dawn of Day”, p.80, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.

  Mike Lupica

  Doe, One Thing, Ifs

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• What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?

  Wayne Muller

  Kindness, Healing, World

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• What if miliseconds influence centuries?

  Robert Cowley

  Influence, Century, Ifs

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• What if the world is holding its breath -
  waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

  David Whyte

  Waiting, World, Breaths

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• What if we truly believed that there is a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax?

  Marianne Williamson

  Order, Relax, Together

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God? What if that was enough for us? What if it didn't take a great band to evoke that kind of response from us in worship? What if His presence - His Word opened - what if it was enough?

  David Platt

  Band, Knees, Affection

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• We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

  Jessica Zafra

  Self Esteem, Patterns, Illusion Of Control

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• But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.

  Seth Godin

  Stronger, Trying, Succeed

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