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“If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.”

Ifs Inspirational Looks Made Ideas Hard Seems Motivational Moving Certain Easy Dangerous Hard Work Made It Foe

Author:Nadia Comaneci

“If I work on a movie for two months, I should be able to dance on as many tables as I want to.”

Ifs Want Should Two Able Months Tables Two Months

Author:Tara Reid

“If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.”

Ifs Ends Process Confined

Author:Hugh Prather

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.”

Ifs Actors Reactions

Author:Michael Caine

“If I worked 8 months on a deal and it didn't go through - I'd punch a wall, get depressed and change careers.”

Ifs Deals Careers Wall Months

Author:Luis D. Ortiz

“If I worked at White Globe Consulting, I wouldn't be able to do my job. I would spend all day texting the other people in the office, asking them what was going on today and had they heard anything new and what did they think was going to happen. Hmm. Maybe it's a good thing I'm not in an office job.”

People Ifs Thinking Happens Today Able Jobs White Heard Office Asking Good Things Globes Texting Consulting Hmm Office Jobs

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“If I worked in my apartment, I'd never leave my apartment.”

Ifs Apartment

Author:Frederick Wiseman

“If I worried about that, I wouldn't have made a single record in my whole career. I think more and more, audiences appreciate something that is distinctive and different. Everyone always throws out this figure, 'Jazz is now down to three percent of the total record sales.' So does that mean it is not important? I think if we agree that human culture itself is important, then I think those three percent take on a greater significance.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Mean Doe Made Important Different Whole Culture Three Careers Audience Records Greater Figures Percent Appreciate Agree Jazz Worried Significance Distinctive

Author:Dave Douglas

“If I worried about what the media said I wouldn't get much sleep and I'm able to sleep pretty well.”

Ifs Wells Said Able Sleep Media Worried

Author:Mitt Romney

“If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don't want that. I want to do everything I can to play basebal.”

Ifs Want Mind I Can Play Worry

Author:Miguel Cabrera

“If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.”

Ifs Men Trying Stills Would Be Age Young Science Teacher Circumstances Degrees Scientist Independence Available Young Man Scholar Modest Plumber Science Teacher Peddler

Author:Albert Einstein

“If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.”

Ifs Inspirational Body Would Be Energy Anger Mad

Author:Roberto Clemente

“If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!”

Earth Mother Born Food For Thought Israelmore Ayivor Mum Mothers Day Request Mama Born Again Ask Mothers Day Quotes 100 100 Times

Author:Israelmore Ayivor

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“If I would believe what I read about myself, I would hate my guts too.”

Ifs Believe Hate Complaining Guts Complaints

Author:Zsa Zsa Gabor

“If I would do another 'Terminator' movie I would have Terminator travel back in time and tell Arnold not to have a special election.”

Ifs Special Election Back In Time

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“If i would ever fall in love.....I'm sure I would want that person to belong to me. I'd make them all mine.......but I might ruin them in the process. So I'm never going to fall in love. I don't need love right now. I have friends with the same purpose as me. I have all of you. -Rei”

Ifs Want Needs Persons Might Purpose Fall Process Mines Right Now Falling In Love Ruins Need Love

Author:Naoko Takeuchi

“If I would expect better spiritual conditions to serve, I would not have started until the present moment.”

Ifs Moments Spiritual Conditions Present Moment

Author:Chico Xavier

“If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.”

Ifs Jesus Christ Teacher Advice Behavior Jesus Christ Perceive Religious Intolerance

Author:Albert Einstein

Source: Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God

“If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Would Be Song Fun Attention Focus Months Albums Eight Drag Tempo Singles

Author:Chris Isaak

“If I would go out against some of these players and see them as their ranking, then I probably would have already lost before I even stepped on the court.”

Ifs Lost Player Court Ranking

Author:Johanna Konta

“If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.”

Ifs Want Situation Lows Notes Petty High Notes

Author:Sammy Hagar

“If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.”

“If I would have been in a different world Like I frequently am when I see you Oh I might have missed All the ways you try to give If only you knew what you do to me Sometimes I think about eternity If it would have been another time I wonder what you would of had in mind”

Ifs Thinking World Way Giving Trying Mind Has Beens Different Sometimes Might Time Wonder Eternity Different Worlds Another Time If Only You Knew

Author:Ric Ocasek

“If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.”

Ifs My Own Careers Solo Vans Packages Resumes Van Halen

Author:Sammy Hagar

“If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.”

People Ifs World Inspirational Should Basketball Disease Should Have Championship Kidneys Playing Basketball Kidney Disease

Author:Alonzo Mourning

“If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.”

Ifs Stills Naysayers Alps Yodeling

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.”

Ifs Art Able Cooking

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“If I would not do something – right now – I would never get to live my dreams in waiting.”

Action Dreams Overcoming Fear

Author:Gisela Hausmann "Naked Determination 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear"

“If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans for my own life, then I could be successful.”

Ifs My Own Decision Successful Plans Talent Tables Impulse Being Successful My Own Life

Author:Star Parker

“If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.'”

Ifs Littles Would Be Princess Rescue Little Princess

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.”

Ifs Want Play Political Courses Language My Own Audience Imagine Huge Directors Limits France Paris Asylums American Movie Complete Freedom French Language French Movies

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“If I would've fought Andre Ward in my prime, I would've beat him.”

Ifs Motivation Beats Fighter Prime

Author:Joe Calzaghe

“If I wouldn’t have spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher, I’d know how to punctuate. Good thing I normally write poetry.”

School Poetry Teachers Punctuation Spit Wads

Author:Stanley Victor Paskavich

Source: Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

“If i wouldn't have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in high school, at getting kids' attention, and delivering lesson plans. Though my principal even told me that this was what I was meant to do. And that being a big-mouth comedian was a waste of time.”

Ifs Has Beens Done Bigs Kids School Attention Class Comedy Teacher Plans Teaching Lessons Waste Mouths High School Comedian Wasting Time Principal Delivering

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.”

Ifs Found Lifestyle Bisexual Courtney

Author:Kurt Cobain

“If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.”

Ifs Writing Book Use Internet

Author:Misha Collins

“If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.”

People Ifs Writing Book My Own Environment Lessons Candid Work Environment

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.”

Ifs Way Feels Writing Trying Kind Persons Character Might Would Be House Journalist

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.”

Ifs Writing Real Stories Feelings Circumstances Mere Contrary Symbols Fantastic My Thoughts Comes And Goes

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing May Stills Play Views Point Of View Obliged

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“If I write a paragraph and I don't get a certain lift from it, if I don't feel connected to it emotionally, then it's dead to me. When I'm reading other fiction writers, if I don't get any emotional investment from the writer, if it's just intellectual or clever - you know, most writing that passes as deep is just clever - I don't feel any connection.”

Ifs Knows Feels Writing Certain Reading Fiction Emotional Intellectual Connections Investment Connected Clever Lifts Paragraph Fiction Writers Emotional Investment

Author:Oscar Hijuelos

“If I write about something that I've experienced and somebody goes, "Oh my God, I feel the exact same way," then both of us are connected, and when you feel connected to people, you feel understood. You feel a sense of purpose.”

People Ifs Way Feels Writing Purpose Understood Connected

Author:Dan Mangan

“If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.”

Ifs Writing Play Song Musician

Author:Paul Stanley

“If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.”

Ifs Writing Two Country Three Names Numbers Ready England Agents France Fifty Japan Asia Treaties

Author:Townsend Harris

“If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play.”

Ifs Feels Writing Mind Long Different Play Fiction Stupid Sweet Research Meals Narration

Author:Charlotte Mary Yonge

“If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?”

Ifs Writing Country Community Novel Citizens Illiterate

Author:Chinua Achebe

Source: Hopes and impediments: selected essays

“If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'”

Ifs Thinking Writing Scripts Likes Detectives

Author:Nic Pizzolatto

“If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.”

Ifs Writing Persons Happens Loses Too Much Nevertheless

Author:Isabel Allende

“If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Song Sound Rocks Fine Musician Rock And Roll

Author:Creed Bratton

“If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.”

Ifs Knows Writing Cold Cold Days

Author:Antonia Fraser

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