I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.”
“In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.”
“In order to be who we are, we human beings remain committed to and within the being of language, and can never step out of it and look at it from somewhere else. Thus we always see the nature of language only to the extent to which language itself has us in view, has appropriated us to itself. That we cannot know the nature of language—know it according to the traditional concept of knowledge defined in terms of cognition as representation—is not a defect, however, but rather an advantage by which we are favored with a special realm, that realm where we, who are needed and used to speak language, dwell as mortals.”
Source: On the Way to Language
“In order to be whole, we must recognise the despair oppression plants within each of us — that thin persistent voice that says our efforts are useless, it will never change, so why bother, accept it. And we must fight that inserted piece of self-destruction that lives and flourishes like a poison inside of us, unexamined until it makes us turn upon ourselves in each other.”
Source: Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
“In order to be yourself you have to deconstruct the puzzle of who you were to become who you were meant to be.”
Source: Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS
“In order to become a better innovator, you're going to learn how to write songs.”
Source: The Reason for the Rhymes: Mastering the Seven Essential Skills of Innovation by Learning to Write Songs
“In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one.”
Source: Nice Guys Finish Last
“In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor.”
“In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.”
“In order to become a master, one needs to become a teacher. Teachers are the real masters.”
“In order to become a reflective, autonomous and self-mentoring individual, one has to continuously learn from people, experiences and new ideas.”
“In order to become a success, a business doesn't just have to do well, it has to to better than its competitors. Being number one isn't just about bragging rights. Often it means the difference between prospering and merely hanging on.”
Source: No Apology: The Case for American Greatness
“In order to become a witcher, you have to be born in the shadow of destiny, and very few are born like that. That's why there are so few of us. We're growing old, dying, without anyone to pass our knowledge, our gifts, on to. We lack successors. And this world is full of Evil which waits for the day none of us are left.”
Source: The Last Wish
“In order to become great, one must understand the secret of time conversion.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“In order to become great we must allows others to become great before us, and not be envious of their greatness but rather rejoice in it. So that when we become great, there will be others who shall rejoice in ours.”
“In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.”
“In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.”
“In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)
“In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer." [Soviet censor of paintings and photos]”
Source: The Tsar of Love and Techno
“In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.”
“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”
“In order to become who you want to be, you have to determine what you want to stand for, what you stand against, and what you are willing to sacrifice and endure to get there.”
“In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.”
Source: Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance
“In order to benefit fully from the education provided in the Theocratic Ministry School, you, the student, must make a personal effort.”
Source: Benefit From Theocratic Ministry School Education
“In order to benefit; however, you must believe that life is plotting for you. We often resist this emerging impulse or this urge to emerge because we are afraid of change, right? To the ego, change is equivalent to danger or death. But when we deny this evolutionary call, it causes an inner pressure that must find an outlet, sometimes in destructive ways. And this can break out as disease, financial collapse, or relationship meltdown.”
“In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive aspects of Jim Crow. It had to yield to the insistent cries on the ground here in this country.”
“In order to bloom you have to be planted first.”
“In order to break free from the chains that bind, one must take whatever action they can to disconnect internally from the larger systems of oppression, of which the family unit is merely a microcosm.”
Source: Black Lotus: A Woman's Search for Racial Identity
“In order to break your child’s negative cycle, you must first break your own cycle of negative perception. You must take on a strengths-based perspective. Look for the good, which in some cases may require you to get creative. Do this even when it’s hard. This sends a powerful message to children even when they are behaving poorly. You are sending the message that you believe in them, you see that there is more to them than their bad behavior, and you are painting a future picture of what they can become.”
Source: When Parenting Backfires: Twelve Thinking Errors that Undermine Parents Effectiveness
“In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace or of internal conditions rendered intolerable by the unjust restraints of foreign nations. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of the duty of sacrifice.”
“In order to bring down the great, you have to be able to reach the stars.”
“In order to bring down the incarceration rate, you've got to start with the beginning of life. You've got to make sure that parents and schools are prepared to prepare young people for success. You've got to deal with the next stage of life. You've got to make sure that people have the opportunity to work at a good job, they have access to good healthcare, and that they have the opportunity to build wealth over time.”
“In order to bring lasting joy to our lives, we must harmonise the past, the present and the future. We must think about the past, be in the present but also visualise our future in a harmonious rhythm. When all three time dimensions are present in our life, we enjoy peace and happiness.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“In order to bring out the best in people, you need to give them your best.”
“In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.”
“In order to build a great socialist society it is of the utmost importance to arouse the broad masses of women to join in productive activity. Men and women must receive equal pay for equal work in production. Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“In order to build a system of values you need time and persistence”
“In order to build a truly civilized society, we need, not democratic government, but meritocratic government.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“In order to build a truly wise society devoid of any kind of existential crisis, it is imperative that the individuals foster a healthy integration between cognition and behavior. When cognition and behavior are not in sync, no civilization can progress in peace and harmony. Without this fundamental integration between cognition and behavior, the so-called “civilization” only miserizes itself by always confusing the acquirement of instant gratifications to be peace and happiness.”
Source: Morality Absolute
“In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations.”
“In order to burn out, a person needs to have been on fire at one time.”
“In order to butterfly kiss, does it require caterpillar lips?”
Source: And That’s Why I’m Single
“In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also had to incorporate scenes from earlier Dark Tower novels.”
“In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.”
“In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake. Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.”
Source: The Anna Karenina Companion: Includes Complete Text, Study Guide, Biography, and Character Index: BookCaps Study Guide
“In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.”
Source: The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition
“In order to change a color it is enough to change the color of its background.”
“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
“In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us.”
“In order to change the direction of this country, we need to change presidents. Americans need a conservative businessman to get this economy moving again, not career politicians. That is why I am running. Next week, I will lay out my specific plan to put America back to work.”