I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.”
“If you are a “now-person”, you reduce the time rate during which your success story is to be published; if you delay a bit, you are either prolonging the date of publishing or you are deleting it at all cost! Be a “now-person” and do it now!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?”
“If you are a parent and you have a child. What did you teach your child ? or you have let them grow on their own like wild plants. That is going to be bitter and going to cause problems In the society. Choose to teach your child , what is right, respect, love, ethics, values, morals, principles. Children are taught. if they learn on their own . They become a problem and something that everyone cries about.”
“If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up.”
“If you are a parent, if you are an educator, there are very many good and powerful reasons to take children onto the Internet, but you have to be involved with them-you cannot expect government authorities or industry authorities or other people to do your job for you, and that is to help guard your children against some of these things that are occurring out there.”
“If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.”
“If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.”
“If you are a part of a conversation in which your colleagues of color are being othered, it's incumbent upon you to speak up. Be the person to say, "This is not right" or "It's time that you learn her name", or "She actually doesn't look anything like the other woman you are confusing with her, except for the fact that they are both Asian".”
Source: What Do You Need?: How Women of Color Can Take Ownership of Their Careers to Accelerate Their Path to Success
“If you are a passenger in life, then life will decide your destination.
If you are the driver of your life, then you will decide its destination”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“If you are a pastor there is no way you can lose faith without losing face, you are considered the devil incarnate by your former congregation”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“If you are a pedestrian, you are not mechanical enough to be of priority to traffic engineers.”
Source: Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities
“If you are a person of faith like me, then learn to discern between what requires medical intervention and what requires spiritual or even psychological specialists. There are enough physicians and specialists to deal with medical conditions, allow them to play their part without disturbing their interventions by adopting untested bush-advice.”
Source: Making Success Deliberate
“If you are a person this world will seem full of persons. When you are the being you will not feel bound. You will know every being, look in the eyes of every being, and you know, you will recognize yourself. These things are not poetry. They are simple truths. You will experience them. In your heart they will be confirmed.”
“If you are a person who wants an uncommonly fine life, if you're willing to put in some time each day to do that, then that will happen to you.”
“If you are a person with big dreams and would love to support others in achieving their big dreams, then the network marketing business is definitely a business for you. You can start your business part-time at first and then as your business grows, you can help other people start their part-time business. This is a value worth having - a business and people who help others make their dreams come true.”
“If you are a person with low awareness and absent-minded, you will be shocked by what life brings you suddenly, like being startled by a train that suddenly appears from the darkness in the subway!”
“If you are a person with sound judgment, you will not hesitate to sculpt the marble into an inspiring piece of meaningful art.”
“If you are a physician and someone comes to see you with an absolutely incapacitating headache or a swollen arm, you don't tell them, "Come back in 10 years when I've completed my study and I'll see what I can do for you."”
“If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.”
“If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are.”
Source: The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries
“If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.”
“If you are a police dog, where's your badge?”
Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
“If you are a policeman and if an order is given to you to attack brutally the peaceful protesters, only one option will keep you in the category of human: To refuse the order and to resign! Always listen to the voice of your conscience! Refuse the evil orders of the evil men! This will bring you good honour.”
“If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.”
“If you are a power broker and have reached a certain level of prominence in our society, you should be using your influence and platform to champion public service and advocacy efforts in your community.”
“If you are a power broker or have reached a certain level of prominence in our society, you should be using your influence and platform to champion public service and advocacy efforts in your community.”
“If you are a professional actor who has pride in his work, then the judgment of your peers should be important to you. I treasure each and every award I have ever received - and my Oscar is in a place of honor.”
“If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.”
“If you are a professional, coming to understand the political nature of what you do, as part of an honest reassessment of what it really means to be a professional, can be liberating. It can help you recover your long-forgotten social goals and begin to pursue them immediately, giving your life greater meaning and eliminating a major source of stress. It can help you become a savvy player in the workplace and reclaim some lost autonomy. And, ironically, it can help you command greater respect from management and receive greater recognition and reward, without necessarily working harder.”
Source: Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives
“If you are a professional writer - i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed - Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish.”
“If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.”
“If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for six months in a submarine.”
“If you are a pure-hearted person and something you persistently want is not happening, instead of getting discouraged, lift your spirits by seeing it this way: Something else, probably something better and right for you, is on its way.”
“If you are a racist, then know that heaven is not meant for you.”
“If you are a real estate agent, broker, or business person, advertising your services may be a good way to generate real estate leads. This type of lead generation is great because rather than you doing the work to find people who want to buy or sell a property, the tables are turned and they come looking for you instead.”
“If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals!”
“If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.”
“If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.”
“If you are a reporter trying to find out what the hell's going on in government now, you have a devilish time. It is murder to set up an interview. It is murder to get someone's phone number. It's murder to be able to get in and talk to someone without a handler being present to chill it, or who doesn't insist upon questions in advance.”
“If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.”
“If you are a Russian bureaucrat, you are required to obey every order, even if it is illegal, and with each passing year this comes to seem more natural. When the Kirovles case was brought against me, Belykh, who knew perfectly well the charges had been fabricated, kept his mouth firmly shut. That was one of the reasons the case was able to proceed to trial.
It is fundamental to Putin's power, however, that the rules can change and at any moment be used against you. Seven years later I turned on the television and was stunned. Nikita was shown being arrested in a Moscow restaurant in the act of accepting a bribe. He got eight years in a strict regime facility and, as I write this, is still in prison.”
Source: Patriot: A Memoir
“If you are a Scot living outside of Scotland but still in the UK, you are not allowed to vote in the referendum. This leaves over a million of loyal, proud Scots disenfranchised. It gives me the rage.”
“If you are a sea level adapted human and your employer requires you to sleep at high altitude, you should change jobs as soon as possible.”
“If you are a sea level adapted human, then your health is at risk by working at the biologically toxic Mauna Kea Observatories.”
“If you are a sea level adapted human you should avoid being a high altitude astronomers laboratory rat for the protection of your long term health and safety.”
“If you are a self-believer, you will find God.”
“If you are a Sensitive Intuitive, then you are also a born healer. Writing is one of your heart's passions, but only one. You also have a life purpose to use your healer abilities to be of service to the world.”
Source: The Infj Writer: Cracking the Creative Genius of the World's Rarest Type
“If you are a simple mortal, do not speak
of tomorrow or how long this man may be
among the happy, for change comes suddenly
like the shifting flight of a dragonfly.”
“If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.”
Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing