Best creating & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.”

Ifs Character Opportunity Felt Careers Color Type Creating

Author:Lance Reddick

“I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.”

Ifs Want Feels Believe Sometimes Hard Play Whole Able Bits Creating Guitar Honestly Tone Spectrum Laid Back

Author:Angus Young

“If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.”

Ifs Writing Situation Failing Lucky Creating

Author:Ira Glass

“If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!”

Ifs World Stories Reading Perfect Succeed Conflict Creating Utopia

Author:Veronica Roth

“If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Play Creating Exciting Capture Listeners

Author:Joss Stone

“My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.”

Ifs Way Looks Art Ideas Different Whole Song Creating Art Is Down And Chaos Reactions Different Ways Upside Down Tornadoes Things Upside Down

Author:Marilyn Manson

“For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.”

Ifs Feels Dies Growing Dying Creating Exciting Stagnant Enriching

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.”

“I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really abstract shapes. If you look at individual shapes, they aren't the shape of anything, but together they give you the illusion of hills and sun and flowers.”

Ifs Giving Looks Reality Together Individual Sun Flower Shapes Creating Illusion Hills Abstract Working Together

Author:John Newman

“If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless of its military success and that of the new Iraqi forces, and Iraq will move towards division, paralysis, civil conflict and/or a new strongman.”

Ifs Moving Form Force Failing Military Civilization Succeed Conflict Creating Structure Iraq Peaceful Division Coalitions Paralysis

Author:Anthony H. Cordesman

“If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.”

Ifs Want Needs Writing Long Art Matter Motivational Creating Draws Paint Cooks Engines Cultivating Collages

Book:The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“I realized a long time ago that instead of being jealous you can be inspired and appreciative. It carries more energy to you... That can be an awesome motivating force that can improve your life if you choose to be inspired and not jealous. One (being jealous) has no benefit whatsoever, the other is an incredible resource for creating momentum and improvement.”

“Creating video games is an especially important act. To me, video games are something I both play and create, so they're "special." If I lost one half, the balance would crumble. I need to be able to both play and create games.”

Ifs Needs Important Play Able Games Lost Half Special Balance Creating Video One Half Lost Ones

Author:Hidetaka Suehiro

“If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.”

Ifs Should Important Reality School Certain Given Issues Discipline Creating Organization Function Important Things Principal Given Up School Principal

Author:Itay Talgam

“If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.”

“All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly building new neural structures for creating internal worlds and projecting them on their external world. And they build up an enormous self-esteem and feeling of power over the external world through their own capacities.”

Ifs World Want Children Self Play Feelings Self Esteem Building Projects Creating Capacity Structure Enormous Esteem Internals

Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce

“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Writing I Can Stories House Felt Pay Walking Creating Okay Down And Desert Leap Chimneys Leap Of Faith

Author:Stephen King

“Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.”

Ifs Mean Has Beens Matter Facts Use America Lying Courses Succeed Creating Gun Tasks Agendas Socialist Banned

Author:Sarah Brady

“If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else. They would stop dreaming. And if people didn't dream, they would be awake to discover the wonderful misery of being. There are no singular great people. There is only a small percentage of people manufactured to look significant, for the purpose of creating the feeling of mass insignificance.”

People Ifs Humans Looks Feelings Dream Would Be Purpose Wonderful Creating Mass Misery Significant Awake Aspire Percentages Great People Being There Insignificance Stop Dreaming

Author:Craig Stone

“As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!”

Ifs Way Looks Stories Process Journey Projects Creating Chiefs Narrative Outcomes Wow Odds Gang Yarn

Author:Tom Peters

“We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Wells Shows Young Generations Tvs Creating Musician Filmmaker Idols Embarrassed Tv Shows Contests My Generation Wrong Way

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?”

Ifs Company Fields Objects Creating Built Monopoly Nucleus New Company

Author:Edwin Land

“It would be great if we had our own personal force fields. Just imagine creating your own architecture in your room. Buildings. You wouldn't have to spend all that time saving your money for that second house. You'd simply push a button and have as many houses as you want.”

Ifs Want Would Be House Force Rooms Imagine Fields Building Creating Architecture Saving Buttons Your Room Force Fields

Author:Michio Kaku

“From where I sit I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot of money.”

Ifs Knows Courses Pay Attention Trouble Cost Creating Cinema Filmmaker Digital Lots Of Money Sloppiness

Author:Robert Zemeckis

“So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God.”

Source: The Works of Charles Kingsley: Yeast

“You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.”

Ifs Wells Different Play Shows Form Stars Accepting Rocks Creating Draws Stones Bother Rock N Roll Unfortunate Rolling Fertile Rolling Stones Hybrid Zeppelins Discs Fertile Ground

Author:David Lee Roth

“When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extermely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I am not doing anything different really, except using a different system of harmony.”

People Ifs Important Different Lines Pieces Walking Creating Majors Harmony Important Things Composer Minors Up And Down Schubert Triads

Author:Elliott Carter

“Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.”

Ifs Writing Ideas Wonderful Creating Pages Empty Bases Exciting Originals Plus Wonderful Things Thrilling Typing Creating Something

Author:Carl Reiner

“We need to think about what cooking is, what context it takes place in and what its relationship to the world of art is. If there were criticisms of my presence at Documenta, that's a good thing because it means we were doing something new. Your mission in creating something artistic is to produce something new and polemical.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Mean Art Produce Creating Art Is Criticism Cooking Good Things Missions Artistic Something New Creating Something

Author:Ferran Adria

“If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas... Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy... Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's... Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.”

“Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.”

Ifs Want Purpose Chance Missing Creating Difficulty Mastery Autonomy Chances Are

Author:Bill Crawford

“I just rely on the text to speak for itself and then speak it as I believe it to interpret it, and then just know that the rules of the world that we're creating allow for things to come to life, and then just trust in the process of making a film. Hopefully we'll make a sequel, because if we do, we had such a great time as an ensemble, I think the best thing to do would be to just take the whole cast back. This is Iain's idea and I agree with it. Just reincarnate all the characters and put them back into the world. There's no rules. Why couldn't we do that?”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Believe Ideas Whole Character Would Be Film Speak I Believe Process Creating Agree Casts Hopefully Best Things Things To Do Rely Great Times Sequels Ensemble

Author:Brendan Fraser

“I don't find any difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalists. I believe religion is the root, and from the root fundamentalism grows as a poisonous stem. If we remove fundamentalism and keep religion, then one day or another fundamentalism will grow again. I need to say that because some liberals always defend Islam and blame fundamentalists for creating problems. But Islam itself oppresses women. Islam itself doesn't permit democracy and it violates human rights.”

“What I know for sure is that all the sacrifice and challenges we face are worth it if we're creating a better future for our kids. I just think if the adults are always thinking about the world we want to leave for our kids, we're going to make the right choices every single time.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Want Kids Faces Choices Challenges Sacrifice Creating Adults Worth It Better Future Always Thinking Right Choices Make The Right Choice Challenges We Face

Author:Michelle Obama

“If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.”

Ifs Jobs Games Support Policy Taxes Creating Innovation Private Sector Public Sector Bad Games

Author:Jack Welch

“Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation.”

Ifs Rocks Building Creating Foundation Solid Foundation

Author:Steve Tisch

“Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.”

Ifs Earth Social Plans Please Creating Luck Our Wedding

Book:Braided Lives: A Novel

Source: Braided Lives: A Novel

“I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.”

Ifs Felt Fear Chance Enemy Growing Risk Offers Creating My Friends Something New Creating Something

Author:Eartha Kitt

“Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as soon as you get people focused on creating meaningful connections in the midst of their work, or increasing the meaning and depth of their relationships outside of work, we find happiness rising in step with that social connection.”

People Ifs Trying Social Difficult Steps Creatures Creating Connections Depth Focused Meaningful Pursue Rising Midst Vacuums Finding Happiness Meaningful Connections

Author:Shawn Achor

“I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.”

Ifs Thinking World Ideas Inspiration Certain Song Hours Projects Creating What If Melody Concerts Tied

Author:Jon Foreman

“Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you're filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let alone feel like creating something. If you are filled with bitter, selfish anger, this occupies the mind and leaves little room for creative ideas.”

Ifs Feels Mind Littles Ideas Rooms Enemy Creativity Creative Bed Creating Filled Selfish Bitter Instance Negativity Creating Something Creative Ideas

Author:David Lynch

“all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.”

Ifs World Needs Should Persons Certain Creative Amount Creating Criticism Criticize Shut Up Creating Something Creative Writers

Author:Gena Rowlands

“Sometimes we ask ourselves 'Why?' Why do I continue to smile, to give, to live? Why do I continue to stand, despite the ferocity of the wind that keeps blowing, that keeps slapping against my face, creating a pressure that says 'fall'? Why I don't I listen to those who call me a fool because I continue to love despite my hurt? I don't know what tomorrow brings; I don't know if my troubles will seize or if my sorrows will continue. But this much I do know - I will continue to hold out, I will continue to press on, until my blessing comes.”

Ifs Knows Giving Sometimes Motivational Faces Fall Asks Hurt Trouble Wind Fool Tomorrow Sorrow Blessing Creating Pressure Presses Despite Call Me My Blessing Ferocity Slapping Tomorrow Brings

Author:Shane Smith

“If men pride themselves on the fact that Jesus Christ was born of their sex, the answer is that this was necessary for the sake of decency, for if he had been a woman, it would have been impossible for Jesus to go out at all hours of the day and the night and mingle with the crowds to convert them and to help and save mankind, without creating a scandal.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Facts Helping Night Jesus Sex Christ Born Hours Answers Impossible Mankind Pride Creating Jesus Christ Sake Crowds Scandal Decency

Author:Marie de Gournay

“Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don't feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story.”

“If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.”

Ifs Mystery Findings Creating Good Times Finding Yourself Ignored Being Ignored

Author:Lykke Li

“We refuse to share resources; we govern irresponsibly. If we are confident, if we have some of our cultural values, then we would be more committed to assisting our people out of poverty and creating an environment that can make it possible for our friends to assist us.”

People Ifs Would Be Values Poverty Environment Share Creating Resources Committed Refuse Assisting

Author:Wangari Maathai

“I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.”

People Ifs Way Might Enjoy Can Do Worry Creating Expectations You Can Do It Disappointing

Author:Justin Timberlake

“Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.”

Ifs Reality Imagination Space Secret Cities Cutting New York Poet Creating Tradition Myth Disappear London Paris Rome Sail Floats Moscow Leningrad

Author:Nina Berberova

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