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 an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.”
“If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.”
“If you're an open book, there's no allure.”
“If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.”
“If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you're angry all the time.”
“If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.”
“If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.”
“If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?”
“If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.”
“If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry poem. So go ahead... write one. I know you're at least a little bit angry with me. And when you're done with your poem, decipher it as if you'd just found it printed in a textbook and know absolutely nothing about its author. The results can be amazing...and scary. But it's always cheaper than a therapist.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition
“If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.”
“If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'Pro' one side or the other in a conflict. However, it does make you 'Pro' many thingsPro-Peace, Pro-Human, Pro-Evolution, it makes you Pro-Communication, Pro-Diplomacy, Pro-Love, Pro-Understanding, Pro-Forgiveness.”
“If you're anxious about the state of the world, that's understandable. But trade your anxiety for the blessing of hearing the words of Scripture, keeping them in faith and obedience, and remembering the time is near.”
“If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.”
“If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.”
“If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.”
“If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.”
“If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.”
“If you're anything like me there are days when you're convinced you know more than everyone around you. Which is often confirmed by your interactions with people.”
“If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“If you're around someone who makes you feel good, you have to go for it. Don't hold back.”
“If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?”
Source: The Elements of Programming Style
“If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.”
“If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head!”
“If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a "break-up song," I can't imagine doing that to people I love.”
“If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old.”
“If you're asking me as the President, would I understand reality, I do.”
“If you're asking me do we want clean air and clean water? Yes. Do we want a safer climate for future generations of the world? Of course we want that. We're working super hard here in Trump Tower to make sure that happens.”
“If you're asking me have I purchased a CD, a DVD or downloaded a current artist? The answer is no.”
“If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.”
Source: The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession
“If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.”
“If you're asking me what I love, it's that point where I'm just scribbling and trying to make myself laugh and trying to outrage myself. Getting in that frame of mind where the more you laugh the more you laugh - I think that's what I'm attempting to do.”
“If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.”
“If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often.”
“If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.”
“If you're asking yourself why I have this success and you don't, don't be angry with me-stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.”
Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down
“If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese.”
“If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.”
“If you're at my level and you go to a bookstore, even a good turnout is not that many people. Sometimes it is. But for the most part, it's not a huge turnout.”
“If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.”
Source: If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night
“If you're at the Oscars, there's not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Most straight actors I know get quite used to it. Even when they go out in real life they grab some sort of bronzer and they throw it on. They dye their eyebrows, they dye their lashes - they know the tricks.”
“If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else. ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments of the day, the sublime in the ordinary.”
“If you're at the top, then brace for the fall.”
“If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income.”
Source: Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition
“If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.”
“If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important - if you want to operate on your default-setting - then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren't pointless and annoying.”
“If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.”
“If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.”
“If you're aware when it's going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you're not aware of it, you'll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason.”
Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
“If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.”