I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you don't have your friends, you start to go a bit mad. That's why in the future I don't want to be constantly acting, going from one film to another. I just think it would be so very lonely to be away from your friends and family for so long and no proper kind of routine.”
“If you don't have your game-face on, you're going to go home either to a hospital or to a casket.”
“If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.”
“If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.”
“If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.”
“If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.”
Source: A Malamud Reader
“If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.”
“If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.”
“If you don't hit the target, you're never gonna score”
“If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.”
“If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.”
Source: Wise Blood
“If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.”
Source: The Deptford trilogy
“If you don't identify as a feminist, you're missing out on this whole community that's out there that could really help you with your work, help you with your personal life, and just give you support.”
“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
Source: Paper Towns
“If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.”
“If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.”
“If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.”
“If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.”
“If you don't invest in the woman, empower her, give her the things she needs to lift her family up, you're just not going to make the progress that you want to make. But if you put her at the centre, you can change a lot for that family, and it has ripple effects through the economy.”
“If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.”
“If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.”
“If you don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains.”
“If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.”
Source: Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912
“if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.”
“If you don't keep giving customers reasons to buy from you, they won't”
Source: The End of Advertising as We Know It
“If you don't keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won't do it - you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.”
“If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."”
“If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.”
“If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.”
“If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person.”
“If you don't know a light bulb is a three-way light bulb, it messes with your head. You reach to turn it off, and it just gets brighter! That's the exact opposite of what I wanted you to do! So you turn the switch again, and it gets brighter once more! I will break you, light bulb!”
“If you don't know about it, you can't get it.”
“If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.”
“If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.”
“If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.”
“If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.”
Source: A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'
“If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.”
“If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.”
“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.”
“If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.”
“If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.”
“If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.”
“If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.”
“If you don't know how to do it, get around someone else who does.”
“If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.”
“If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?”
“If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.”
“If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.”
“If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.”