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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.


William James

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If you don't love something, definitely let it go.
Basic...
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GARY F EVANS... Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.
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LEWIS BLACK This is too much reality for a Friday.
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VIETNAMESE PROVERB If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
DEYTH BANGER Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy
DALE CARNEGIE If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.
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PAT BENATAR O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
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DWIGHT W. HAYES When I have said "If Only", I realised what precious a moment have slipped away.
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GARY F EVANS... For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple...
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FAISAL NAWAZ MAITLO We could have been the greatest love story ever told.

If only you'd stayed in character.
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IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
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IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE I thought I could play at a higher level. And I wanted to get a better education.
IF RICHARD KIRTLEY I will go across the middle and make a catch. I want to show them I have mental toughness.
IF RICHARD KIRTLEY He had no clue who I was.
IF RICHARD KIRTLEY She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE Shy, insecure, afraid to speak up? “Act as if,” they say. Act as if you’re not. Stand tall whe...
TAMARA IRELAND STONE Always treat your students as if their parents were sitting beside them in the classroom.
VIKRANT PARSAI And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As i...
ALAN W. WATTS If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
DEYTH BANGER If you are not getting the results you want change your technique
VALARIE ROCHA Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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D.J. MACHALE If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.
GAYLE FORMAN If only…the saddest words in the English language.
KRISTAN HIGGINS I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter
GAYLE FORMAN You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.
SALLY GARDNER Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.
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to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
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SIDDHARTH JAIN Act as if you don't know me, and i will make it seem as though you don't exist.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE Live as if you already are what you wish to become.
WILLIAM JONES Who we are is determined by the actions we take, the words we choose to say, the people we love. And...
REBECCA HARRIS Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
OSCAR WILDE Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I am running the show. Everyone is waiting for me. I decide. I know this now.
GAYLE FORMAN Dying is easy. Living is hard
GAYLE FORMAN That taught us how to block a sword with two knives. But what if an ax man's coming at me?"
Gi...
JOHN FLANAGAN If God grants me three wishes,I would ask for 1.I have to feel the pain of the brokenhearted as mine...
JOSEPH BOAZ I only need a second. So I can show her that I'm here. That someone's still here.
GAYLE FORMAN You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.
ROALD DAHL [...]one should act as if the things he cherished the most were already lost or broken.
H.J. BRUES I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
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MARTHA LEE If you want success, you have to accept that results won’t be instantaneous. Everything good takes...
AVINA CELESTE Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
OSCAR WILDE If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.
HENNY YOUNGMAN In order to bring me down.You have to be able to reach me first.
PRAVINEE HURBUNGS If you weren't religious, you would still be as much of an asshole as you already are now.
JEFFREY FISCHER You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a ri...
DANIELLE STEEL If your pain is the same like somebody else, I think that this will be the best couple it will be.
DEYTH BANGER Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you ha...
BRIAN TRACY You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can...
BORIS VALLEJO You had to act as if nothing was wrong, ... It was very difficult to do, but you knew in the back of...
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JEANNE HOLM You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But i...
ALBERTO SALAZAR If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the w...
SARAH DESSEN As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I al...
JOHN GOKONGWEI If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this a...
JOHANN VON GOETHE If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this a...
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BIBLE If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, y...
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RAYMOND OBENG The novel can be read simply as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be read as a story yo...
MALCOLM LOWRY If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
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ANTHONY T. HINCKS If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!
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AVIS JOHN If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.
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C.S. LEWIS You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity
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