I Quotes
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“If you write you may be read and if you read you may understand,
but if you understand you will never write.
© 2018 Danny Kemp All rights reserved”
Source: What Happened in Vienna, Jack?
“If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.”
“If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.”
“If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too. And always...always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape of his ears. Look for the whole person. Judge him as the whole person.”
“If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do not be troubled at all. Wait for them. Put down little ideas no matter how insignificant they are. But do not feel, any more, guilty about idleness and solitude.”
“If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.”
“If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.”
“If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.”
“If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.”
“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”
“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”
“If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.”
“If you yearn for holy felicity,
shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.”
Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey
“If you yell about one woman, you're not a misogynist. If I yell about Michelle Bachman, that doesn't make me a misogynist. If I compare all women to Michelle Bachman, then I'm a misogynist.”
“If you yield so much as an inch of the Congo, your old King will rise from his grave to blame you.”
“If you you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem.”
Source: The Best of Brain Droppings
“If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can.”
“If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.”
Source: Jesus, Remember Me: Words of Assurance from Martin Luther
“If you young people who today belong to the first generation of the 21st century make an effort now, you may be able to create a happier, more peaceful world. But you can't take for granted that it will happen by itself, you'll need to take action.”
“If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.”
“If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.”
“If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea.
You have to get out past the harbor into the great dephts of God, and begin to know things for yourself....beg in to have spiritual discernment.
Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.”
“If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.”
“If you'd asked me a few years ago about debt settlement companies, I probably would have told you to avoid them.”
“If you'd asked me at 30 where I'd be during the Masters when I was 46, I'd have pictured myself on a boat fishing, smoking a cigar, drinking a mint julep and watching it on television.”
“If you'd asked me in 1980 what the big impact of microprocessors would be, I probably would have missed the PC. If you asked me in 1990 what was important, I probably would have missed the Internet.”
“If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But now, I'm more convinced than ever that his political positions as well as his spiritual positions arise out of such precise and realistic thinking that they're extremely sound.”
“If you'd asked me then if I saw how big "The Steve Harvey Morning Show" was going to be, I couldn't tell you. But I knew I could reach people not as a character but as Steve Harvey, because although I tell jokes for a living, I've also lived, and I think I can relate to you more than you know.”
“If you'd asked me what I'd wanted to do five years ago, I'd have told you I wanted to be Viktor Vaughn or The Game - I would want to be a rapper with an eight ball of coke in my pocket and a wad of hundreds. Because that kind of freedom - well, perceived freedom - is where I want to be.”
“If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.”
“If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around.”
“If you'd bothered to ask me, Clark, if you'd bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours, I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn't bother to ask me. You decided what you thought you'd like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.”
“If you'd done a good job you'd just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.”
“if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.”
“If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.”
“If you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against Liverpool or going to bed with Miss World, it would have been a difficult choice. Luckily, I had both.”
“If you'd have asked me two years ago, I'd have been like "No, anything and everything. Go for it." Now, I want to focus on doing the best I can each time. But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.”
“If you'd have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine.”
“If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.”
“If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.”
“If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly.”
“If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.”
Source: Confessions of a Public Speaker
“If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.”
“If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.”
“If you'd like to reach me, leave me alone.”
“If you'd listen, even for a little while I'd be pleased Remember, once more we were born into this world crying. Your dreams and hopes for tomorrow are all in this world.”
“If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“If you'd offered me a 69 at the start this morning I'd have been all over you!”