I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.”
“If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.”
“If you try to keep your most sacred ambitions off of your weekly calendar and your most genuine traits off of your resume, then you're missing out on the power of real integrity.”
“If you try to learn with your intellect, it is more difficult to absorb the teachings on a deep level. The mind looks at something and says, I don't want that; I want this instead. But as you simply continue to train, something changes. What changes is deeper than your intellectual knowledge, deeper than mind or heart.”
Source: Journey to the Heart of Aikido: The Teachings of Motomichi Anno Sensei
“If you try to leave me like this, I will haunt you until the end of your days. I will drop out of classes and become a hobo and will leave you little garbage sculptures telling you how much I love you. Every morning. Right at front of your door. You will never be rid of me.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.”
“If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.”
“If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.”
“If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.”
“If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way. I don't look at American History X as a failure, or Fight Club as a failure, or 25th Hour as a failure, or Larry Flynt as a failure, or any of the movies that I care about that I've made that were not immediately successful. I'll stand with those movies any day over 90 percent of the movies that came out at the same time that made a hundred million dollars”
“If you try to make music and try to convey to everyone that everything is all peachy-keen, you might come off like you're full of it, and that could be something that draws listeners away.”
“If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.”
“If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more like what the Democrats actually are.”
“If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.”
Source: Black and Blue Magic
“If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.”
“If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.”
“If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.”
“If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.”
“If you try to over-control what you think you will achieve, you'll miss what you can actually accomplish.”
“If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.”
“If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.”
Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“If you try to please everyone you'll please no one.”
“If you try to pop the unpopped kernels in the microwave, you go back in time.”
“If you try to pull too much power through too soon, you will injure yourself.”
“If you try to restrain the fire within you, it will burn you up from the inside out. If you let it flare and fuel its flames, it will lift you up without a doubt.”
Source: The Outback Musician's Survival Guide: One Guy's Story of Surviving as an Independent Musician
“If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.”
Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz
“If you try to sell honey to bees,
they will laugh at you.
If you try to sell perfume to flowers,
they will chuckle at you.
If you try to sell fruit to trees,
they will jeer at you.
If you try to sell rain to clouds,
they will scoff at you.
If you try to sell fear to wolves,
they will howl at you.
If you try to sell terror to lions,
they will roar at you.”
“If you try to sell rivers to oceans, they will mock you;
fish to seas, they will belittle you;
rocks to mountains, they will taunt you;
clouds to skies, they will deride you;
color to rainbows, they will revile you;
stars to galaxies, they will chide you;
wind to storms, they will denounce you;
sand to deserts, they will ridicule you;
speed to cheetahs, they will criticize you;
venom to serpents, they will disparage you;
beauty to stars, they will discredit you;
pearls to oysters, they will berate you;
trees to forests, they will spite you;
birds to skies, they will disdain you;
music to birds, they will dismiss you;
wool to sheep, they will detest you;
silk to spiders, they will defame you;
seasons to nature, they will despise you;
honey to bees, they will laugh at you;
perfume to flowers, they will chuckle at you;
fruit to trees, they will jeer at you;
rain to clouds, they will scoff at you;
fear to wolves, they will howl at you;
and terror to lions, they will roar at you.”
“If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.”
“If you try to shoot me, I will have to shoot you back and I promise I will not miss.”
“If you try to shut down your angel guidance, that's the path to feeling unhappy and results in addiction.”
“If you try to sleep on the floor I'll just get down there with you. Which will make you feel guilty and then you'll end up in the bed anyway. So just give in now and save yourself -- and me -- a headache.”
Source: Edge of Danger
“If you try to steal the giant’s lunch,
the giant is likely to eat you for lunch.”
Source: The Bootstrapper's Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money
“If you try to stop your pain by ignoring it, you're hindering the process of healing.”
“If you try to talk about a truth that’s merely moral, people always think it’s merely metaphorical. A real live man with two legs once said to me: ‘I only believe in the Holy Ghost in a spiritual sense.’ Naturally, I said: ‘In what other sense could you believe it?’ And then he thought I meant he needn’t believe in anything except evolution, or ethical fellowship, or some bilge. . . .
-- The Secret of Father Brown”
“If you try to tame her she will fly away, because pretty little spirits like her, never like to be caged.”
“If you try to tame wild dreams, you're going to get bit. - The Malwatch”
“If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.”
“If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.”
“If you try to understand me, within your IQ, I am impossible. To make that possible is only the way of passion and love, and the breeze of the trust.”
“If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.”
Source: Heaven
“If you try to win, you might lose, but if you don't try to win, you lose for sure!”
“If you try to write posthumously, however, fashion doesn’t apply. You step off the catwalk, ignoring this season’s trends and resigning yourself to being unfashionable and possibly unnoticed, at least for a while. As Kurt Woolf, Kafka’s first publisher in Germany, wrote to him after Kafka’s book tanked, “You and we know that it is generally just the best and most valuable things that do not find their echo immediately.” Fashion is the attempt to evade that principle: to be the echo of someone else’s success and, therefore, to create nothing that might create an echo of its own.”
“If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.”
“If you try too hard to hear the telephone ring, you cannot.”
Source: THIS IS IT or The Art of Metaphysical Demonstration
“If you try too hard to please others, you may fail to satisfy your own needs.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“If you try too much to change the outside, that shows that you are still attached. If a man tries to be detached, it shows attachment. Why bother about detachment if you are not attached? If a man escapes from women, it shows that sex is still the obsession. Otherwise, why escape from women if you are not obsessed?”
“If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.”
“If you try, you might lose. If you don't try at all, you will surely lose.”
Source: Rainy Days: AI art collection by zinny (studio nongimmick)
“If you try you would never be alone; because the whole world is tired of loneliness.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry