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 watched by the government, start telling people that you are going to shut down the Space industry.”
“If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others”
“If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults, to the grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers of the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be, among many other things our most violent form of nostalgia.”
Source: Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
“If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times”
“If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.”
Source: The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]
“If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.”
“If you want to be you, BE YOU!”
“If you want to be your best, spend a lot of time exploring what is more than enough. Push yourself until the bar is lying immobile across your chest. Push yourself right off the edge of your capacity.”
“If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.”
Source: Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979
“If you want to beat Donald Trump - then you need to be the candidate that is not the establishment in your thinking, in the way you're presenting yourself.”
“If you want to beat Donald Trump, you know, one of the clearest indications of who can beat Trump is Donald spends every waking moment attacking me. He doesn't attack any other candidates, because his campaign views us as the only real threat to him.”
“If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.”
Source: Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others
“If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified.”
“If you want to become a Bitcoin Whale, the first step is to get in the water.”
Source: One Coin. Two Coin. What Coin? Bitcoin: Crypto for Grownups Made as Easy as Child's Play
“If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you won't accomplish anything these days in chemistry. Liebig's advice to Kekulé.”
“If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.”
“If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.”
“If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.”
“If you want to become a great marketer, the place to start is actually selling. one on one, face to face.”
“If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things.”
Source: Baudolino
“If you want to become a positive thinker, don't think lack, think abundance, for you and for everyone. Dream big; as bigger as the blue ocean. Become aware of your thoughts and you will be aware of yourself.”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“If you want to become a super club you have to be ready to play against super clubs. In the past couple of years, we've seen a mentality that has emerged that our players aren't on the field to get autographs. It's an opportunity to prove what we've been shouting from the rooftops for a long time, that we've been producing quality players and we can play with the best teams in the world.”
“If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.”
“If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don't be a miser; only misers lose energy.”
“If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, I invite you to come to Moscow... I would recommend that he who does the surgery does it so you'll have nothing growing back afterward.”
“If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.”
“If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.”
“If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.”
“If you want to become good at something, do it as often as possible. If you want to become an expert at it, do it every day.”
“If you want to become humble, the first thing you have to admit is that you are proud.”
“If you want to become humbler in your life, than travel in roadways, auto's & pathways/streets in India.”
“If you want to become more attractive,
change your energy,
dance, jog, rollerblade, lift free weights.
Whatever pleases you,
and tones your body
in a beautiful way.”
Source: The Art of Loving Intelligently:Discover the Five Love Myths Hurting Women in America
“If you want to become someone new, you need a strategy for dealing with people who are invested in the old you staying put.”
“If you want to become something, achieve something in life, then always listen to your heart.”
“If you want to become successful employer tomorrow, work hard on learning and practicing few simple disciplines and positive thoughts as an employee today.”
“If you want to become successful, then first become the person who can be successful.”
Source: Go For Success: Be a Champion by 6 Effective Steps
“If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value”
“If you want to become that close to 'God', die instead.”
“If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.”
“If you want to believe,
don't ask for knowledge.
If you want to know,
don't give in to belief.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the afterlife. You're missing out on the afterlife you looked forward to in your last existence by worrying about your next life. This is what happens after you die. Take a look.”
Source: Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality
“If you want to belong to the best, you need good technique and, perhaps even more importantly, a good eye. If you see the ball sooner, you have more time to think about how and where to return it.”
“If you want to better understand business and economics - go meditate in a forest.”
“If you want to blame your parents for your own adult problems, you are entitled to blame the genes they gave you, but you are not entitled—by any facts I know—to blame the way they treated you.”
Source: What You Can Change and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement
“If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.”
Source: Watership Down
“If you want to bless your children and the children of your children, train them to be a child of God as early as possible.”
Source: Hope of the Future: Bless the Generations to Come
“If you want to blow up hang around me because all of my friends we would hang out and next thing I know they are major worldwide superstars.”
“If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do alone.”
“If you want to bond yourself to someone, make sure you've agreed on what dreams you're going to explore together, or you'll find yourself unhappy with where you go. - The Malwatch”
“If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.”