I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you want to be a chef or a scientist, you've got to know what the current thinking is, so if you want to write comics or draw comics find out what the very best ones are and look at them all and then you'll know where the bars are because the bars are often very high, if you are going to make a splash and make yourself known, you need to get to that level.”
“If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a civilised country, first you have to be a non-violent country! Violence is the means of the sick minds; peacefulness is the means of the healthy minds!”
“If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.”
Source: Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry
“If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.”
“If you want to be a creative researcher, be in the presence of the Creator”
“If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.”
“If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.”
“If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.”
“If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.”
“If you want to be a doctor, you may say, There are all these beings, they're sick, they're dying, I've got to go out and help them. And so you grab a bag full of scalpels and medicine and rush off. Even though your motivation is very pure, you end up harming beings because you don't know what you're doing.”
“If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.”
“If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need to learn about craft so that the next time you pick up a contemporary short story, you're reading it not as an abstraction floating in formaldehyde, existing simply for the theorist's dull scalpel to saw on, but as a concrete thing constructed out of words and shaped by syntax, brought to life by a writer who made several thousand choices, some large, some small, before letting that imperfect beauty, the story, walk on its own two feet.”
“If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!”
“If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.”
“If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.”
“If you want to be a good parent please heal your own wounds, heal all of them and be confident that you’ve done so before you seriously consider having children. The unresolved child within you is the real child you need to embrace and heal and raise.”
Source: Breaking from Your Parents: Setting a New Precedent for Your Life and Our Species
“If you want to be a good parent then be a great leader. You should live a life with passion for someone and something. The legacy you leave your children shouldn't be how you suffered in gratitude for a life you had no passion for. Rather, it should be how grateful you are to a God that believes fairytales can come true because they came true for you.”
“If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.”
“If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!”
“If you want to be a good writer, you need to be a talented artist. And artists are unique and stand out. Artists are the opposite of conformists.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“If you want to be a good writer, you need to be a talented artist. And artists are unique and stand out. Artists are the opposite of conformists. So by doing what everyone else is doing, you're proving your mediocrity, and your lack of artistic uniqueness. When you follow everyone else's example, you are by definition not an artist. You're a copy cat.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.”
“If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.”
“If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“If you want to be a great American, you have got to understand Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, how the American Revolution happened. I think if you want to be a good citizen of the digital age, it helps to feel comfortable with both the people and the ways of thinking that created the digital revolution.”
“If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.”
“If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.”
“If you want to be a great leader, you have to put the interest of the country above your own. I would like to think that true leadership is not just telling people what they want to hear but helping them understand things, so you can explain to them what you think is best, and then they can judge you on that.”
“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
“If you want to be a Jewish state and you want to remain a democracy, you have to have a two-state solution.”
“If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you will see further.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.”
Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
“If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.”
“If you want to be a leader, go lead”
“If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.”
“If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself.”
“If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.”
“If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it's fun to do a lot of different things.”
“If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.”
“If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions.”
“if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.”
“If you want to be a master of imagination, you must free your mind from all limitations!”
“If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.”
“If you want to be a model, then you should probably become an actor. That's the only way to get hired to do the great advertising campaigns that are really interesting or the magazine covers, and it's hard to build a name for yourself as a model without those things.”
“If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.”
“If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?”
“If you want to be a part of a rebellion, you have to learn how to lie.”
Source: Leia: Princess of Alderaan
“If you want to be a party animal, you have to learn to live in the jungle.”
“If you want to be a person with a large vision, you must cultivate the habit of doing the little things well.”
Source: Great Lives: David: A Man of Passion and Destiny
“If you want to be a photographer, first leave home”