I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful - this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.”
“If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics”
“If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love.”
“If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.”
“If you ditch the rulebook, you lose the grace. Even the wacky, avant-garde, convention-defying arts—experimental film, expressionist painting, professional wrestling—draw their power from playing against the limitations of the chosen medium.”
Source: Math with Bad Drawings
“If you dive for it, you will find it. Who says there is no pearls in the ocean?”
Source: One Life: An Afghan Remembers
“If you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work.”
“If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contrast it with the lack of influence of nonbelievers.”
“If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how noble your intentions, you have taken one step toward the destruction of the world.”
“If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.”
“If you DJ reality, that is, if you make a mash-up of actual reality, you're going to end up with something that inevitably people will say, "This is feminist." Because you cannot avoid that.”
“If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race or that sex, and they can't be interesting because everything they do has to represent an entire block of people. You know, Superman isn't all white people and neither is Lex Luthor. We knew we had to present a range of characters within each ethnic group, which means that we couldn't do just one book. We had to do a series of books and we had to present a view of the world that's wider than the world we've seen before.”
“If you do a character, always make the character with a big question mark. Even if the character is very enigmatic and all over the place, make him always with a question mark, because if you turn a question mark upside down, like they do in South America in Spanish, then it becomes a hook.”
“If you do a few good deeds and then say, that's it, I've completed my daily quota of good deeds, then that's not goodness, but a mockery of goodness. When a river flows does it ever count the villages it passes by and then say that's it, I have completed my daily quota of providing people water - it doesn't, it simply keeps flowing, without keeping count of how many people are blessed by its water. Be like the river my friend and do good without keeping count.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“If you do a fifteen hour day on a film, there's a lot of time standing around but at the end of that, you want to go home to your hotel room and have a bite to eat, watch a movie and go to bed.”
“If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.”
“If you do a good act, it cancels the effects of your evil deeds. If one prays, takes the Name of God and thinks of Him, the effects of evil are cancelled.”
Source: At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi
“If you do a good deed to reap the reward of blessings, wouldn't you be performing a selfish act?”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.”
“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time.”
“If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility.”
“If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.”
“If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.”
“If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.”
“If you do a little bit of looking at books with your children and inspire them to be curious about the pictures and ... what the word means, but don't get into very structured systematic teaching at too early an age, and you also interact emotionally and have fun with pretend play ... then you have the best of both worlds.”
“If you do a lot of things to build business, you'll build business. They don't have to be done perfectly to work, although the better you do them, the better they'll work. But the main point is that you have to do them - a lot.”
Source: How to Sell Anything to Anybody
“If you do a musical, it's really thrilling and it's a lot of work, but it's very rewarding. I would say, for me, what I like best is what I do, which is, I call it vaudeville, I call it live, I call it in concert, I call it what Bette Midler does, and what Garland did for years, and Ethel Merman.”
“If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.”
“If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.”
“If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'”
“If you do a yoga that does not change the patterns of energy within you, I would say, don't waste your time on it.”
“If you do all that work of figuring out exactly how writing is done, then it's available to you at anytime, and you can build on it. It's like the difference between shooting one hoop and having it go in by accident and saying later, 'I shot a basket,' - and practicing so much you can do it whenever you want.”
“If you do all the talking when you pray, how will you ever hear God's answers?”
“If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.”
“If you do an episode about something like transverse myelitis, it's a real disease that's out there, there are a lot of people that have it, and it's hard to get funding for them because people don't know about it. There are actually a lot of doctors that don't know about it. But if you do an episode of House, all of a sudden 15 million people are hearing the words, and it's an opportunity.”
“If you do an indie film, where it's like, "We don't have a lot of money to give you, but we'll really give you a lot of freedom," that's really a luxury to have in this business. At least for myself, because I'm still kind of earning my acting credibility.”
“If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.”
“If you do an original film and you want to cut a scene out you do it. But when you do a shot by shot remake you don't have that option and every scene has to work again.”
“If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone.”
“If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.”
Source: The Novels, Poems, and Memories of Charles Kingsley: Letters and memories
“If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.”
“If you do anything regularly for a while, sooner or later the weirdoes will show up.”
“If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.”
“If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.”
“If you do anything with mediocrity, you will do everything with mediocrity.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you're not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down.”
“If you do believe in science, you really have to actually stand up and make a stand for it. You can't just say, the facts aren't in. Science is always looking for better explanations to everything, but that doesn't mean that when we get on a plane we don't know what's supposed to happen next. And if it doesn't go the way that it's planned, that's a big, big problem. The culture wars are very tricky and make me a little sad.”
“If you do believe that earning notches in my belt is what I'm trying to do here, then aren't those very notches why you came to me?"
This girl wasn't stupid, just angry. Her mouth pressed into a thin line; she hated that Trisha was right, but she also understood that Trisha was indeed right.
"I came to you because my brother's friend believed that you could cure me, not play chess with my body parts." Trisha could see another painting, a chessboard with scrotums and vaginas, and in place of the king: eyeballs. Well, this was checkmate.”
Source: Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
“If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.”
Source: The family album
“If you do build a great experience,
clients tell each other about that.
World of mouth is very powerful.”