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 working in a team, do not expect an outcome of your excellence. It will be an average of all of the team members.”
“If you are working in a team, do not expect an outcome of your excellence. It will be an average of all of the team members. Moreover, if you do not want to discuss with mediocre people, there is a greater possibility of the outcome to go further below average.”
“If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft”
“If you are working on a short story for a small online press, don't try to write a serious, world-changing, add-this-to-the-literary-canon masterpiece. Do your best work, but keep it all in perspective. Save the stress for when it is really called for, like facing a two-week deadline to rewrite a novel for a major house.”
Source: Book in a Month: The Fool-Proof System for Writing a Novel in 30 Days
“If you are working on something, about to deliver it, moments from opening the doors, an hour from everybody arriving, a week from the release date, two minutes from getting the results back, and you have butterflies in your stomach, be grateful.
You are in a wonderful place.
Nerves are God's gift to you, reminding you that your life is not passing you by.
Make friends with the butterflies.
Welcome when they come, revel in them, enjoy them, and if they go away, do whatever it takes to put yourself in a position where they return.
Better to have a stomach full of butterflies than to feel like your life is passing you by.”
Source: How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living
“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
“If you are working on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, then you have the secret company status of ‘Disposable Worker’.”
“If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition.”
“If you are working with no vision to be own your own boss, you are no different from people who are unemployed”
“If you are working with people with whom you do NOT do your best work, you are out of integrity.”
Source: Book Yourself Solid Illustrated: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even If You Hate Marketing and Selling
“If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.”
“If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.”
“If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to that body enables Him to do more. If you want to help those outside you must add your own little cell to the body of Christ who along can help them. Cutting off a man's fingers would be a odd way of getting him to do more work.”
“If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.”
“If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.”
Source: Mastery
“If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.”
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
“If you are worrying about tomorrow, you can't possibly enjoy today. Think about it: you can't really give God tomorrow; you can give him only what you have, and today is all you have.”
Source: Spirit-Controlled Temperament
“If you are worshipping God without depending on the Spirit of God, you are serving a god you do not know.”
“If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.”
“If you are writing a scene involving sex and you are not balls to the walls horny, that scene sucks.”
“If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.”
“If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.”
“If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.”
“If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.”
“If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody,
you'll please nobody.”
“If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“If you are writing for an educated audience and, to take an example, you use the phrase mutatis mutandis, you are not showing off—you are communicating. You are using words to do what words are supposed to do. It reminds me of the time that someone complained to William F. Buckley about all the unusual words that he would employ. His reply was that the words were not unusual to him. Words are there for a reason, and foreign phrases can often do the trick that more homey phrases cannot. But if you are blogging about your adventures as a shopping mom, and you write about your purchase of a 48-pack of corn dogs at Costco, and you describe them as de provenance étrangère, it had better be a joke. Unusual words or phrases (foreign and domestic) are a barrier to understanding, unless the point is to communicate to the reader that you know something they don't. Then they understand what you are doing quite well.”
Source: Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.”
“If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
“If you are wrong, nothing is right. And if you are right, nothing is wrong!
-Ram Charan Arya”
“If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“If you are wronged and do nothing but sulk about it, you wrong yourself even further.”
Source: I, Iago
“If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.”
“If you are young and open, and start loving football and really think about it then there are not a lot of alternatives to LFC. If you are a fan of another club it's okay too. But if you want to be a fan of 'the' club then it's Liverpool FC.”
“If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.”
Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
“If you are young child and you've lost mother and dad to AIDS and rich nations sit on the sidelines not caring, you will become a frustrated person and a hopeless person.”
“If you are, consolidating at a lower interest rate can help you pay off your debt faster. But if there's even a small chance that you'll spiral back into debt, it's not for you.”
“If you aren't a little bit wiser at sunset than in the morning, then that day is wasted!”
“If you aren't born with every advantage, you learn to tale chances.”
Source: Six of Crows
“If you aren’t challenging people to change in some way, you aren’t a leader.”
“If you aren't crazy yet, you know nothing.”
“If you aren’t cunning, someone cunning will first speak for you then take over you.”
“If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your enemies are. You have been brainwashed into believing you are your own enemy, and you are set against yourself. The enemy is laughing at you as you tear yourself to pieces. That is the most effective warfare an enemy can launch on his foes: confounding them.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“If you aren’t enough cunning, someone who is, will first speak for you, then take over you.”
“If you aren't happy for what you already have then what makes you think you will be happy with more.”
Source: How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
“If you aren’t happy with your decisions, it’s quite likely that you aren’t living your values. This is an indication that you should re evaluate your career and life choices.”
Source: Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager
“If you aren't hiring, the only way for your business to grow is for your people to grow.”
“If you aren't intentional, you'll turn out ordinary.”
“If you aren't losing weight, and you know you need to (you know), then you gotta go look in the mirror. Step up and own it. Don't hate yourself. Don't play the victim. Just admit that there's some room for improvement and start improving. It might be two steps forward and one step back for a while. That's fine. It's still one step forward.”
Source: ...then just stay fat.
“If you aren’t paying attention, it’s easy to miss when love changes. Sometimes it’s gradual—unravelling slowly like a ball of yarn rolled across the floor. Other times it’s lightning fast, triggered by something so powerful it cannot be quieted or undone.”
Source: Can't Take it Back