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 use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.”
Source: Interaction of Color
“In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness”
“In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the patience of the Saint Job is needed. In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the tenacity of the well tempered steel is needed.”
“In order to wash away past mistakes, it is necessary to have both repentance in the ‘relative’ and bliss in the ‘Real’.”
Source: Pratikraman
“In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands of birds down stairways which were folded up again as I advanced. I displayed my grief in the friendly fields of death, far from men: within myself.”
Source: Funeral Rites
“In order to welcome redemption, one must first embrace the utter hopelessness of failure. For how can a man look for rescue unless he knows he is truly lost?”
Source: Pendragon
“In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.”
“In order to win at life, you have to have more audacity.”
“In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.”
“In order to win in business and life you must take command of the moment you are living in right now.”
Source: Take Command
“In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all, I urge you to get to work with all your heart, resolute on being bolder, crazier, more advanced, surprising, eccentric, incomprehensible, and grotesque than anybody else in music. I urge you to be a madman.”
“In order to WIN the game, you must first not LOSE it.”
“In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.”
“In order to win, you must lose it all...”
Source: Pandemonium
“In order to win, you must reposition yourself in this season.”
“In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.”
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“In order to win, you have to be aggressive - with your car, with the racetrack, and with the competition. But you don't have to be stupid about it.”
“In order to win, you must be fully charged. To be fully charged, you must have gas in your tank.”
“In order to win, you must expect to win.”
“In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.”
“In order to witness clearly the march of humanity from its inception to the present moment, an understanding of how humankind has held encounter with the divine as central is crucial. Ancient humanity provides us with an excellent laboratory for gaining such an understanding.”
“In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.”
“In order to work with difficult outer circumstances, we need to gather our inner strength. If even ten or twenty minutes of meditation a day helps us to do this, let's go for it!”
Source: No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva
“In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it). I think that true writing could be done on industrial subjects by people who work in industry, who are firmly linked with it. But ... and here is the opposite 'but', the technology of literary craftsmanship is itself a very fine and complex matter. Qualified specialists from industry prove themselves dilettantes in the field of literature. The needed synthesis is not yet in sight.”
“In order to write, let alone think, about social class, we need to have a language for it. And yet we don’t. Or rather, everyday working-class people don’t.”
Source: The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
“In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.”
“In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.”
“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”
“In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate heart, conditions and attitudes.”
“In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.”
“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
Source: Letters Papers from Prison
“In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.”
“In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.”
Source: Dom Casmurro
“In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "directly perceive" that your wife is cheating you, or you can become aware of the possibility that maybe it is you who has a problem, that your "immediate" emotional representation of social reality might actually be a misrepresentation.”
“In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is useful and necessary to cope with our everyday environment, but it is not a fundamental feature of reality. It is an abstraction devised by our discriminating and categorising intellect. To believe that our abstract concepts of separate 'things' and 'events' are realities of nature is an illusion.”
“In ordinary society, superstition sells faster than science.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.”
“In Oregon, my home backs up to lush green fields, horses, stunning sunsets, and hazelnut orchards.”
Source: A RIVER FOR GEMMA
“In organic chemistry there exist certain types which are conserved even when, in place of hydrogen, equal volumes of chlorine, of bromine, etc. are introduced.”
“In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.”
“In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.”
“In organizations where employees are happy you find two things present: trust and respect.”
“In organizations where nothing much happens regardless of whether you do something exceptional or just show up in the morning, the best people lose heart and motivation is reduced near the lowest common denominator.”
Source: Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business
“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.”
“In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a sublimated and indirect way, through the mediation of some religious imagine in the love of whom the members unite and whose all-embracing love they are supposed to imitate in their attitude towards each other. It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.”
“In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.”
“In Orlando, I handled a lot of stuff the wrong way.”