I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not among things but among words.”
“If you accept limitations then, yeah, you'll be limited. If you don't accept limitations then the horizon is pretty vast.”
“If you accept mass production, you accept that a small number of people will supervise the daily existence of a much larger number of people. You accept that human beings will spend long hours, every day, engaged in repetitive work, while suppressing any desires for experience or activity beyond this work. The workers' behaviour becomes subject to the machine. With mass production, you also accept that huge numbers of identical items will need to be efficiently distributed to huge numbers of people and that institutions such as advertising will arise to do this. One technological process cannot exist without the other, creating symbiotic relationships among technologies themselves.”
Source: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
“If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.”
“If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.”
“If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“If you accept that conservatism equals constitutionalism - and I do - well, then, where do we start? We do we start reinstituting all of these values, the morality in the culture, in our society; the respect for rule of law. And then you look at what we're up against, an entire Democrat Party.”
“If you accept that human beings are difficult to change, and embrace (rather than curse) the uniqueness that everyone brings to the table, you’ll navigate the world with more bliss and effectiveness. And make better decisions, too.”
“If you accept that only the soul is yours, you have everything. You don’t need anything else. You are everything in your own entirety.”
Source: Smiling Brahma
“If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.”
“If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.”
“If you accept the existence of advertising, you accept a system designed to persuade and to dominate minds by interfering in people's thinking patterns. You also accept that the system will be used by the sorts of people who like to influence people and are good at it. No person who did not wish to dominate others would choose to use advertising, or choosing it, succeed in it. So the basic nature of advertising and all technologies created to serve it will be consistent with this purpose, will encourage this behaviour in society, and will tend to push social evolution in this direction.”
Source: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”
“If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.”
“If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.”
“If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.”
“If you accept the situation, you will find strength for strategic adaptation.”
“If you accept working for 'peanuts' don't complain when you're treated like a monkey.”
“If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.”
“If you accept your misery then your misery will accept you.
If you accept your poverty then your poverty will accept you.
If you accept your adversity then your adversity will accept you.
If you accept your reality then your reality will accept you.
If you accept your authority then your authority will accept you.
If you accept your energy then your energy will energy you.
If you accept your liberty then your liberty will accept you.
If you accept your mastery then your mastery will accept you.
If you accept your beauty then your beauty will accept you.
If you accept your humanity then your humnanity will accept you.
If you accept your divinity then your divinity will accept you.
If you accept your destiny then your destiny will accept you.”
“If you accept yourself the way you are, you will keep getting better and better. If you keep fighting with yourself, you will become more and more wounded.”
“If you accidentally step on your bunny or kitty’s paw, they jump back, they make a sound, and you feel terrible. Isn’t that all the proof you really need that animals feel pain, fear, and betrayal?”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
“If you accuse me of being on drugs because I'm very focused on what I do, because I'm very serious, because I'm very hungry, because I can squat 800 lbs, because I can bench 500 lbs, because I can press 315 behind my neck, and if these things don't fit under what you consider to be natural, then I don't want to be a natural. I don't want to be what you depict as a natural. I want to define myself for me.”
“If you accuse others for your mistakes, you will learn nothing from your mistakes.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“If you achieve a success not achieved by anyone else and not possible to achieve by anyone else then you are the hero of your generation.”
“If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any power or authority, you must strive to use it to help and empower the powerless.”
Source: Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough-and-Tumble Adventures of a Scotch-Drinking, Skirt-Chasing, Dictator-Busting and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambassador Stuck on the Frontline of the War Against Terror
“If you achieve good results using a poor method, isn't that a much greater achievement than starting from better methods.”
“If you achieve good results using a poor method, isn't that a much greater achievement than starting from better methods. - Rider”
“If you acknowledge your power of choice in your situation, you will instantly boost your self-confidence and open yourself up to new possibilities.”
Source: Create Your Vision Workbook: 4 Steps to Create a Powerful Vision for The Life You Want
“If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.”
“If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!”
“If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.”
“If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.”
“If you act enthusiastic, you'll be enthusiastic!”
“If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.”
Source: The Book of Atrus
“If you act impetuously, it will be uncertain, and you'll know it. It just won't feel right. It is better to wait.”
“If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.”
“If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one”
“If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.”
“If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.”
“If you act like Beatriz is going to get hurt by something, she’ll pick up on it and get scared of it, too. Or you can act like she’s got superpowers and can take on the world, then so will she.”
Source: Erik the Pink
“If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.”
“If you act like you can do something, then it will work.”
Source: Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein
“If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.”
“If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it'll take all day. Act like you've got all day and it'll take fifteen minutes.”
“If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.”
“If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.”
“If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.”
“If you act with love, you won’t regret.”