I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you understand that life is a game, it means that you are a skilled player. You know it's time to let go. Loosen your grip, get up, get off the stage, walk away. Life is a stifling, endless, infamous match. And between the pawn and the king, in the final challenge, there's not that much difference”
Source: The Jump
“If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America.”
“If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.”
Source: The shield of faith
“If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.”
“If you understand the value of time, you will convert it into products.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you understand this basic concept, it becomes clear that every spending decision is a spiritual decision. Waste, for example, is not a squandering of our resources. It is a poor use of His.”
“If you understand what holiness is, you come to see that real happiness is on the far side of holiness, not the near side.”
Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone”
Source: The Enchanted
“If you understand what the other team is trying to do to stop you, it makes your job easier.”
“If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.”
“If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.”
“If you understand writing as primarily engaging an imaginary reader, well, you've kind of been doing that your whole life. You walk into a room and you're engaging with imaginary strangers because you don't actually know who they are. For me, it was really empowering to say: this is a branch of entertainment and communication and engagement, as opposed to jumping over some perceived literary high bar. That was the buzzkill.”
“If you understand your character and feel like it's a collaborative process, you're more inclined to dive into the deep end and fight for your character and feel passionate about your character, and that passion comes across on screen.”
“If you understand your own reality, then that of the rishis and Masters will be clear to you. There is only one Master and that is the Self […] The power is only one in all. (p. 110-111)”
Source: Talks With Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness
“If you understand your why, your purpose in life, what you want to obtain in this life, and what you want to accomplish in this life, that's the first piece. And after the why, it's the what. How will you bring that passion, that purpose to life?”
Source: GPS Guide for Athletes and Those Who Surround Them: How to Empower Your Sports Goals, Navigate the Process, and Steer Toward Success
“If you understand, it is not God.”
“If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.”
“If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety.”
“If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!”
“If you understood everything in the mind of an author then reading his books would be no fun at all.”
Source: Fairy Tail, Vol. 02
“If you understood him, it would not be God.”
“If you understood the plan of your government, that means it is a policy or if you don't it means it is politics.”
“If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.”
“If you unite a couple on a joint fight, the question is, "Does it unite them literally, or does it weaken their love?" And if it weakens their love, is that true love? And if this is true love, then you know they should be united by their separation. It's their fight that brings them emotionally together while they're physically separated, and so, though there's physical separation, there is mental and emotional closeness.”
“If you unpack the statistics on who is supporting , Donald Trump, it means that there is a lot of people who hold very bigoted racist ideas and there is a lot of them.”
“If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.”
“If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.”
“If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better.”
Source: the elements of style
“If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.”
Source: Killosophy
“If you use a poor headline, it does not matter how hard you labor over your copy because your copy will not be read.”
“If you use a positive word, the corners of your lips go upward and it makes you smile.”
“If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?”
“If you use all your power for the sake of a disgraced person, won"t consider it if you hold hands in the worst time, will say I was a ladder for you to succeed”
“If you use big words, no one will know you aren't doing jack squat.”
“If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.”
“If you use Facebook - as I do - Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.”
“If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong.”
“If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?”
Source: For Keeps
“If you use language that divides people and makes people who agree with you really stoked and people who disagree with you disengaged then you're preaching to a choir, and you've lost any kind of relativity across the spectrum. So it's important to be subtle and understand that there's a lot more you can learn.”
“If you use sex outside its proper context, it will hijack your emotions, get you into a bunch of stupid situations, and eventually control your wellbeing. I’m sure you’ve been hurt by all sorts of relationships in the past, and they’ve probably torn you up, caused you to get into fights, ate away at your self-worth, made you sick to your stomach. Well, that’s why. Acknowledgement and appreciation are legitimate needs, but sleeping around is not the way to meet them.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“If you use sex whenever you want with whomever you want, you’re treating it like trash, like it means nothing. Imagine a piece of duct tape. It’s got a purpose, it’s designed to stick to something, but if you stick it to the dog and rip it off, then the floor, the wall, the toilet, the neighbor’s pit, after that, it just won’t work right anymore. When you finally find your spouse and try to connect with them, there will be all sorts of crud in the way. It might be a physical STD, or it could be an emotional one that spreads through your relationship and life like an infection.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“If you use social media,
don't ask for privacy.
If you want privacy,
don't use social media.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“If you use social media right, you will piss people off. It's actually recommended!”
“If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.”
“If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.”
“If you use the word ‘halt,’ I will hit you.” “Not halt,” he breathlessly said. “Upstairs. Now.”
Source: Biting Cold
“If you use your gift, you will be glad.”
“If you use your life to improve the lives of even five people, that will be the highest fulfillment of your life, no matter how long you live.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma