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 writer, just write. There's no magic to it.”
“If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!”
“If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.”
“If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.”
“If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning.”
“If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.”
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.”
Source: Second words: selected critical prose
“If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.”
“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”
“If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the Self is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile, mistaking it for a log of wood.”
Source: The Powers of The Mind
“If you want to be able to use the powers of Flash and Wonder Woman and Cyborg, you have to have bad guys who are up to snuff and give them what they can really kind of get their cars out on the track and open up the accelerator a little bit.”
“If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.”
Source: My Life in High Heels
“If you want to be among the few who rule the world you therefore must learn to convert every time of your life, every second and minute that passes by.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you want to be among the few who rule the world, you, therefore, must learn to convert every time of your life, every second and minute that passes by. The target of life and the idea of life is that every time must be converted into something.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you want to be among the greatest skiers, you have to win in Kitzbuehel at least once.”
“If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.”
“If you want to be an actor, don't go to film school, become an intern to some politician.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.”
Source: Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best
“If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.”
“If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.”
“If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.”
“If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.”
“If you want to be an artist, go to every art gallery, if you want to be in movies, see movies! You have to participate in whichever world you're trying to enter! You have to know what's going on. You can be the best artist in the world but if you don't know one thing about which gallery to go to, you're never going to get it shown in the right place. Learn a little bit about the business of whichever art you're trying to get into. Without it, you will be lost.”
“If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe then you should try to become an actor.”
“If you want to be an artist, you have to know that art is an ongoing practice, that you're part of a long line. Take this test: if someone offered you a billion dollars, but you could never draw another illustration or write another word, would you take it? If you reject it, you need to find another way to pay the bills, but you're still an artist.”
“If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.”
“If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.”
“If you want to be an authority on digital marketing or social media, get comfortable maintaining, updating and distributing content online.”
“If you want to be an eagle you have to be careful who you fly with.”
“If you want to be an effective and memorable leader, get comfortable fostering a culture of inclusion, collaboration and creativity.”
“If you want to be an effective leader, get comfortable fostering Fostered a culture of innovation, inclusion, collaboration and creativity.”
“If you want to be an entrepreneur, fail as fast as you can. The longer you go without that experience, the more afraid you will be of it, and then you will never do it!”
“If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle.”
“If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.”
“If you want to be an expert in attracting others, choose a cat as your teacher!”
“If you want to be an extremist, be extreme in your acts of kindness - if you want to be a fundamentalist, practice the fundamental principle of acceptance in every walk of your life - if you want to be an intellectual, use your intellect to improve human condition.”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.”
“If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.”
“If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.”
“If you want to be anxious today, pretend you're in control.”
“If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.”
“If you want to be around people who are positive and enthusiastic and eager to live life, your attitude has to be the same.”
“If you want to be at peace, you have to be clear about your intetion and - moment by moment - in alignment with your intention”
“If you want to be backed by corporations so that you're elected mayor, then it's going to be very problematic for you to support a living wage campaign that would shift the minimum wage to something else.”
“If you want to be, be positive, there is too much scope, these days.”
Source: Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts
“If you want to be better…if you want to experience greater satisfaction…if you want greater rewards…if you want to be A Cut Above the rest, you have to step out of your comfort zones. You have to try new things…more challenging things. You just have to be just a little bit better than you were the last time out.”
Source: Road Work: Images And Insights Of A Modern Day Explorer
“If you want to be big, you have to start behaving big.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“If you want to be called a dwarf you must be in immediate possession of a battle axe cause otherwise your just a midget with an attitude.”
“If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.”