I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you can't trust people, who can you trust?”
“If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?”
“If you can't trust your coke dealer, who can you trust?”
“If you can't trust your president to get the right information on a Googleable fact, then can you really trust him with the harder stuff? Which, by the way, is everything else the president of the United States has to deal with.”
“If you can't trust, you can't be trustworthy.”
Source: Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel
“If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing bsuiness at all.”
Source: Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett
“If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much”
“If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.”
“If you can't use dividends, it's not a bad thing to give it back to your shareholders. They'll use it somewhere else.”
“If you can't win by reason, go for volume.”
“If you can't win, make sure you don't lose.”
“If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.”
“If you can't worship at the back, you can't worship at the front”
“If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.”
Source: Collected Stories of O. Henry
“If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.”
Source: Armageddon in Retrospect
“If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country!”
“If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.”
“If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.”
“If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have to get an amanuensis who will write for you.”
“If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.”
“If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.”
“If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.”
Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
“If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.”
“If you can't you must, and if you must you can.”
“If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just call in some analyst who's experienced in adjusting people to the joys of television, and Life magazine every Wednesday, and European travel, and the H-bomb, and Presidential elections, and the front page of the Times, and God knows what else that's gloriously normal.”
“If you can't, then you must!”
“If you can't, you must. If you must, you can. Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”
“If you can't,can't be yourself what are you living for? If you can't, can't be yourself you're gonna lose it all”
“If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the losses and the wins.”
“If you can, do a gratitude practice: Each day write down three things you're grateful for. There are different ways to do this. You can have a gratitude buddy, someone with whom, at the end of the day, you exchange messages listing these three things you are grateful for. Also, you can journal it or reflect on it silently.”
“If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.”
“If you can, start your own business while you're working another job so that your bills get paid. Choose something that you love, so that when you're exhausted when you come home from work, you're actually looking forward to your 3 hours every night that you can apply to your business, either after your kids go to sleep or while they're watching TV or while they're doing their homework, however you can budget your time. Instead of a chore, choose something you love so you absolutely look forward to it.”
“If you can, you will quickly find that the greatest rate of return you will earn is on your own personal spending. Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.”
“If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.”
“If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all.”
“If you cannot afford yourself any luxuries for the time being, at least offer yourself the one priceless luxury no one can take away from you – your time”
“If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.”
“If you cannot always elicit a straight answer from the unconscious brain, how can you access its knowledge? Sometimes the trick is merely to probe what your gut is telling you. So the next time a friend laments that she cannot decide between two options, tell her the easiest way to solve her problem: flip a coin. She should specify which option belongs to heads and which to tails, and then let the coin fly. The important part is to assess her gut feeling after the coin lands. If she feels a subtle sense of relief at being "told" what to do by the coin, that's the right choice for her.”
“If you cannot answer all the questions, choose “C” as the answer. Chances are that you’ll accidentally get a few correct!”
Source: Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University
“If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“If you cannot attract a woman, you are, by definition, sterile.”
“If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.”
Source: L.P.
“If you cannot be a human, instead you prefer to be a Christian, Muslim, Hindu or anything else, then how dare you call yourself a human!”
Source: Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human
“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”
“If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light.”
“If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling.”
“If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.”
Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
“If you cannot be at ease with yourself when you are alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. It will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.
In the state of enlightenment, you *are* yourself. There is no "self" that you need to protect, defend, or feed anymore. When you are enlightened, there is one relationship you no longer have: the relationship with yourself.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“If you cannot be Christlike in your deeds, what's the point of all these festivities, which are supposed to be rooted in goodwill towards all, not mindless self-obsession!”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“If you cannot be great, be willing to serve God in that which is small. If you cannot do great things for Him, cheerfully do little ones. If you cannot be an Aaron to serve at the altar, or a Moses to guide the tribes, consent to be "a little maid" to Xaaman the Syrian, for the honor of God's prophets, or a little child, for Christ's sake, to be set by Him in the midst of the people, as an illustration of the sweetness of humility.”