I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If a product costs $10,000 or $20,000 it has limited use. This is what the first computers cost! Only when almost everyone is able to afford it will it be a real thing.”
“If a product is more expensive than another one and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it. We're in a very sharp competitive market.”
“If a product is perceived as unique but not perceived as useful why would anyone think of buying it ?”
Source: Corporate Invisible Selling Behavioural Economics & More
“If a product is perceived as useful but not as unique it is a commodity . Commodities compete on price , have wafer thin margins & are a highly risky endeavour . Why sell a commodity when you could sell a brand ?”
Source: Corporate Invisible Selling Behavioural Economics & More
“If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?”
“If a program of physical activity isn't designed to get you stronger or faster or better conditioned by producing a specific stress to which a specific desirable adaptation can occur, you don't get to call it training. It's just exercise.”
“If a progressive revolution is imminent in a country, we can consider that country very lucky because progressive revolutions make societies leap forward in time at rocket speed!”
“If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process.”
“If a prosecutor in The Hague decides that the U.S. has not followed through effectively on an investigation - is unwilling or unable to carry it through - then that person, that prosecutor, in an unreviewable fashion gets to second-guess the United States? That is unacceptable. That is an assertion of authority over and above the U.S. Constitution.”
“If a prospective employer tells you your compensation is above their budget, it’s not your problem. Your above-average pay is a validation that you are an above-average performer. Don’t apologize for being the best talent. You have reached there with hard work and determination. Don’t undersell. Mediocre salaries will only get them mediocre talent.”
“If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.”
Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.”
“If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to slash things.”
“If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with a theory that the mental and the physical are really the same. But this could happen only at the end of a process which began with the recognition that the mental is something completely different from the physical world as we have come to know it through a certain highly successful form of detached objective understanding. Only if the uniqueness of the mental is recognized will concepts and theories be devised especially for the purpose of understanding it.”
Source: The View From Nowhere
“If a psychosis was just some synapses misfiring why wouldnt you simply get static? But you dont. You get a carefully crafted and fairly articulate world never seen before. Who's doing this? Who is it who is running around hooking up the dangling wires in new and unusual ways. Why is he doing it? What is the algorithm he follows? Why do we suspect there is one?”
Source: Stella Maris
“If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.”
“If a purpose is to be assigned to Life, it should be Living.”
“If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from our earliest beginnings, savored at every possible opportunity and even some quite incomprehensible ones.”
Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories
“If a quote changes your life in a good way, keep it in your mind and in your heart to give it to someone else too!”
“If a quote of two individuals looks identical or almost similar to make it difficult to know as who said it first to be Mr. Right, then it is perhaps sensible to give credit for the same to one who travels in life light by choice and not compulsions than other who is too eager to board on a success flight.”
“If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.”
“If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.”
Source: Watership Down
“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.”
Source: The Mind of the Negro As Reflected in Letters During the Crisis 1800-1860
“If a racial or religious minority faced the same scale of ceaseless attacks that females do, we'd call it terrorism, persecution or genocide. When it happens to females, we seem to see it as the luck of the draw.”
Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials
“If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.”
“If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.”
“If a rainbow could be embodied through the personification of architecture, the Bo-Kaap would be exactly that – a rainbow captured through the lively paint colors of the homes in all shades of bright hues that most of us would never have the courage to paint our own home’s exterior with. Yet collectively these colors create a space of warmth, and the understanding that you’re home – home is where the Bo-Kaap meets the end of any rainbow. A place of happiness...”
“If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.”
“If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.”
“If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear.”
“if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.”
“If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for them, then you should get out of there if you're that artist.”
“If a regular law enforcement agency wants your phone records, all they have to do is issue a subpoena. But now the intelligence agency is not able to quickly gather records and look at them to see who these terrorists are calling.”
“If a regular life is poisoning you, then you need a chaotic life as an antidote!”
“If a relationship crumbles in the universe, does anyone hear it fail?”
Source: Tall, Dark and Slayer
“If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.”
“If a relationship has to be secret, you shouldn't be in it.”
“If a relationship is alwasy demanding more of you, and nothing is ever just good enough, you should probably start looking for ways to get out of it, because that's not a healthy relationship. - The Malwatch”
“If a relationship is always demanding more of you, and nothing is ever just good enough, you should probably start looking for ways to get out of it, because it's not a healthy relationship. - The Malwatch”
“If a relationship is built on sexuality, it won't last long.”
“If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end”
“If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.”
“If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.”
“If a relationship lacks harmony, even the words that reach the tip of the tongue, unable to be spoken, retreat back into the heart and settle into knots.”
Source: Jeetko Paribhasha
“If a relationship lasts longer than 7 years, you are no longer girlfriend-boyfriend. You are family.”
“If a relative has suffered Ovarian or Breast Cancer, get the genetic screening. It saves lives.”
Source: Getting Over Your Ovaries: How to Make 'The Change of Life' Your Bitch
“If a religion asks one to kill another just because he or she follows not this ism, nor agrees with it; then, it's a hell-hole, worse than a prison. Run away, and far from it. As though your butt is on fire. And before you, yourself are imprisoned.”
“If a religion does not teach love, respect, and regard for others, it cannot be the religion of humanity.”
“If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.”
Source: Karmayogin
“If a religious community lacks cohesion, it will lose members. But other problems—from isolation to aggression—arise when a religious community is too cohesive, when it is so tightly bound there is no space for adhesive forces to form ties with the wider culture and members of other communities. When inward-looking groups face outward with fear or fury, they can become, to coin a term, dehisive, a bond-breaking social force. The history of religion provides myriad examples of volatile religious movements that overemphasized in-group solidarity and escalated tensions with outsiders.”
Source: Religion: A Very Short Introduction