I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.”
“If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves.”
“If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.”
“If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.”
“If you look after yourself, keep yourself healthy and have good sparring, there shouldn't be any issues regarding ring rust.”
“If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.”
“If you look and express yourself like everybody else, then you will be treated and taken like everybody else; but If you distinguish yourself and act differently then you will be treat and taken differently—Boomerang Effect!”
“If you look and listen for it, you'll see and hear synchronistic clues from the Universe that go past everyone else but have special meaning for you, guiding you to make the best of things. Look for synchronistic "winks" from the Universe.”
Source: Mind Magic: The Science of Microcosmology
“If you look around anywhere, layers are an important part of, not just the story and the concept, but the world you're in. If you just turn around and look at your office door, there's a door, and there's something behind it.”
“If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.”
“If you look around at the news industry, there are more and more sites clamoring for that kind of writing, whether it's an Ideas section or personal essay series or longform. Readers are hungry for it. It's like prestige TV, though; it's execution-dependent. You have to figure out the right advertiser or sponsor, and you have to deliver, you can't just feed the beast.”
“If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.”
“If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.”
“If you look around my room, you see lots of lists. I'm inspired by what's up on the wall.”
“If you look around the room you are in right now, you will observe a great diversity of items, shapes, sizes, textures, colors, and functions, with all their associated nuances and subtleties. Every career, hobby, occupation, sport, industry, philosophy, plant, animal, object, event, and sensory experience–visual and otherwise–corresponds to a specific language. Language, in a word, is all-encompassing, and there are numerous registers, dialects, idioms, metaphors, and synonyms that express the same idea in multiple ways. “Mastering” one’s native language is a lifelong pursuit. Mastering a foreign language is an even taller order.”
Source: The Art of Learning a Foreign Language: 25 Things I Wish They Told Me
“If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.”
“If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.”
“If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.”
“If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things.”
“If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don’t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me. But when the morning comes, I realize that there’s nothing to be done about what has already happened. I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.”
Source: The Shoemaker's Wife
“If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.”
“If you look around you at the physical universe, you will see that it's nature is growth. Everything from the cells in your body to the planets orbiting the sun are constantly growing, constantly changing, constantly evolving. Nothing stays still. Nothing remains the same. So think about it - why would your life be the exception? Why would you be the only thing that exists in all of creation whose purpose isn't to grow?”
Source: Secrets About Life Every Woman Should Know: Ten Principles for Total Emotional and Spiritual Fulfillment
“If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.”
“If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.”
“If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.”
“If you look at [Donald] Trump's attacks on Jeb Bush, they've been pretty devastating.”
“If you look at a beautiful landscape from afar, everything is beautiful, if you look very closely, your mind may change completely, especially when you see the terrible struggles of life happening ruthlessly inside that landscape!”
“If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.”
“If you look at a cartoon on a computer screen, it really jumps and can be quite effective.”
“If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.”
“If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.”
Source: Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography
“If you look at a farmer and his daily expenditure on existing energy services, it is much higher on an incremental delta basis. And then there is an emotional cost of not providing their kids with the right to educate. If you calculate these costs in economic terms and create a financing mechanism for them to buy it, the emotional delta cost is much higher compared to their household.”
“If you look at a flower and lose yourself in its scent, remember, it is someone's sweet agony, streamed in the breeze. What a heart buries for centuries, someday, the lips begin music making, and what was seeded in agony, is now a sweetened blossom.”
“If you look at a group of people that had faith, it's got to be the Jews. They followed Moses through the desert for 40 years with no map. There had to be one guy in the back, like, 'I don't think he knows where he's going.'”
“If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.”
“If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.”
“If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.”
“If you look at a lot of traditional societies, they're all organized along what we might call anarchist guidelines, but it's not like the Zapatistas were reading European social theory.”
“If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?”
“If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.”
“If you look at a person and see a monster, know that you are being shown a monster lurking in your own dungeon.”
Source: 666: Connection with Crowley
“If you look at a person's checkbook and datebook, you know what their religion really is.”
“If you look at a photograph, and you think, 'My isn't that a beautiful photograph,' and you go on to the next one, or 'Isn't that nice light?' so what? I mean what does it do to you or what's the real value in the long run? What do you walk away from it with? I mean, I'd much rather show you a photograph that makes demands on you, that you might become involved in on your own terms or be perplexed by.”
“If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.”
“If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous.”
“If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.”
“If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.”
“If you look at all different facets, where does it come from? Education. It comes from empowerment of young people. Because the bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.”
“If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals.”
“If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they've all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of their actions - every villain is a hero in his own mind.”