I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you're a lame brain, then you're a lame brain. I can't help that.”
“If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.”
“If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.”
“If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.”
“If you're a leader at any level and your people aren't challenging you, you've got to change that or you can't be a leader here because you're not going to be using ideas, you're not going to have innovation, you're not going to fully develop your people. And if you're working in a group and you don't challenge, then you're not really doing your job.”
“If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.”
“If you're a leader, it's important to set aside time to quiet yourself and listen for God's direction.”
Source: A Leader's Heart: 365-Day Devotional Journal
“If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.”
Source: The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
“If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it.”
“If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The U.S. Army still has to learn that. The British understand it. Patton understood it. I always admired Patton. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes.”
“If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science.”
“If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.”
“If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.”
“If you're a limited government conservative, I feel your pain. Your man Mr. Bush has exploded the size of government, ballooned the deficit and increased government power so dramatically that he claims the right to eavesdrop on your conversations without a warrant.”
“If you're a little hippy and full-bosomed, don't try to remake yourself in the image of a skinny fashion model. It won't work. You can trim down your hips. You should always concentrate on special movements to keep your breasts firm and lifted and young. Hippy and bosomy can be very nice, very desirable. Accept it.”
Source: Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman
“If you're a loner and you like to go off and run on your own, do that.”
“If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.”
“If you're a man and you have big tits, don't wear a tight T-shirt, okay? It confuses the children!”
“If you're a man and you've ever been antique shopping during a big football game, you're either gay or married.”
“If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.”
“If you're a man, you don't cry about it, you take life, the ups and downs; if you're a real man you never go down, you just stay up!”
“If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.”
“If you're a manager and you're stuck doing the same thing year after year, you're going to get stale and not know how to motivate people. Part of becoming better at what you do requires challenging yourself on a constant basis.”
“If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.”
“If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.”
Source: Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
“If you're a member of a despised group, look out! They'll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are a lot of people in the gay community using methamphetamine and paying taxes and going to work and doing well.”
“If you're a Mexican citizen whether you live in a shanty shack or the big palace on the beach, when you turn 65, your property taxes are cut in half.”
“If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.”
“If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.”
“If you're a movie star, the studios don't want you to act. They just want you to show up and look good and chase girls and have a lot of laughs.”
“If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.”
“If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.”
“If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.”
“If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?”
“If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just like burst into a monologue. Your only exercise is when you're in prep or you're working.”
“If you're a musician, you create what you love and hope other people love it as well. Amongst musicians, the starting point is what they love, and then they bring people to them. As a comedian, you have to say something that people relate to, or nobody laughs. As an actor, you have to perform the character in the way that people relate to.”
“If you're a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It's the decadent reward.”
“If you're a night person you can barely get out of bed in time to get to work or get your kids off to school. You're at your most productive and creative much later in the day, and for you, something like getting up early to go for a run is not going to set you up for success because you're not a morning person.”
“If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.”
“If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel. With record-making in the singer-songwriter world or whatever it is that I do, it's a little different because there is no specific arc that is necessarily, like it's not a concept record.”
“If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.”
“If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.”
“If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.”
“If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.”
Source: Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity
“If you're a parent, I tell you how to get through Christmas. I think that if you've ever had a bad feeling about Christmas coming, I'll tell you how to deal with it. So, I think in a way it's like going to a sane psychiatrist that actually gives you some good advice, I hope!”
“If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You were never their age. You were older in the womb.”
“If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.”
“If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.”
“If you're a person and care about other people - I don't think I have any sort of special understanding or anything, I think any feeling person would experience similar things if given the same opportunities to see the things I've been lucky enough to see and meet the people I've been lucky enough to meet.”
“If you're a person that has low income, you probably should have more assistance than a person with high income.”