I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.”
“If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too.”
“If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.”
“If you make a good family movie, then everybody in the family can relate to somebody, or in this case something. That's always enjoyable. There's always an important place for family movies.”
“If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.”
“If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; but if you make but a little of Christ, Christ will make but a little of you.”
“If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.”
“If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.”
“If you make a habit of dismissing or catastrophizing your setbacks, you can also fall into a feedback loop that causes those reactions to magnify.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“If you make a habit of doing nothing, you have already earned your reward.”
“If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquillity of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. Within the depths of consciousness a flame kindles. And man sees himself. He discovers his selfishness, his silly pride, his fears, his greeds, his blunders. He develops a sense of moral obligation, intellectual humility. Thus begins a journey of the soul toward the realm of grace.”
“If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.”
“If you make a mess, you clean it up. Makes sense, right? Well, if you hurt someone, you apologize. Same thing.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”
“If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.”
“If you make a mistake, don’t spend precious time and energy trying to deny it or point the finger at someone else. Be a leader and own it, then spend your time and energy fixing the problem. As I’ve already noted, start-ups often fail because founders want to be seen as the smartest person in the room, which means not being wrong. Making a mistake is going to happen. None of us is perfect. But the difference between success and failure is how you handle that mistake.”
“If you make a mistake,
Simply confess,
Admit that you’re wrong and
Let it rest”
“If you make a mistake, celebrate.”
“If you make a mistake, clean it up quicker rather than later.”
“If you make a mistake, it doesn't mean you're a mistake.”
“If you make a mistake, then you should own that mistake.”
“If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.”
“If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.”
“If you make a movie in the UK you've got to embrace the weather with open arms... We got some of the most amazing weather as well. It's maybe why some of these places, like the Lake District, don't get filmed in so much. If you were trying to make it look like some kind of chocolate box image of England you'd be there all year waiting for the sun to come out.”
“If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.”
“If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.”
“If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.”
“If you make a sale, you can earn a commission. If you make a friend, you can earn a fortune!”
Source: The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource
“If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.”
“If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them.They will find away to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.”
“If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such a mixed population and so densely populated, and it stays up for a full week and doesn't get covered up by something else or pulled down, you will have fifty thousand people who will have seen it. It will be the poorest of the poor - some homeless man who lives on the street will see it and probably appreciate it, or some businessman or landlord will see it. Everyone will see it. And whether or not they even realize that they saw it, on some level it's affecting their consciousness.”
“If you make a suggestion and [musicians] don't know what you mean, you have to be able to do it yourself. I often sit down on drums and show 'em just exactly what I want. And I do it and then say, "How do you do that?" It's because I know how it looks, I know what I want to hear, and I don't drop or rush any tempo. It ain't in my body, it ain't in my nephew's body.”
“If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.”
“If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.”
“If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.”
“If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.”
“If you make an inner-intent to remain steady in a completely unsteady atmosphere, you will be able to remain steady. This is because steadiness is indeed the quality of your own Self-form. So then, what do You have do with what is unsteady?”
“If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.”
Source: The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915
“If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing.
If bad reviews (of whatever kind) upset you, just don’t read them. It’s not like you’ve signed an agreement with the person buying the book to exchange your book for their opinion.
Do whatever you have to do to keep making art. I know people who love bad reviews, because it means they’ve made something happen and made people talk; I know people who have never read any of their reviews. It’s their call. You get on with making art.”
“If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.”
“If you make boozed up youngsters with no comprehension of civilization your role model, you will end up with a world outwardly sophisticated yet inwardly broken and empty.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“If you make boozed up youngsters with no comprehension of civilization your role model, you will end up with a world outwardly sophisticated yet inwardly broken and empty. Remember, a singer who publicly practices eroticism on stage, is no more empowering than a dog who pees at the corner of the street.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.”
Source: Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic
“If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.”
“If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.”
“If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him.
If you seek Him, you are absent from Him.
If you seek other-than-Him, you are shameless before Him.
If you make demands on other-than-Him, you are distant from Him.”
“If you make enough bad decisions, every once in a while things work out for you.”
“If you make enough noise, no matter your instrument, you can keep the old gods alive forever.”
Source: Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll
“If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.”