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“If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.”

Ifs Trying Lonely Be Good Good Times Outrageous Being Lonely

“...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.”

People Ifs Men Trying Light Realizing Leadership Sky Figures Authority Blue Spite Grants Adversaries Another Man Saying No Authority Figures Light Blue

Author:Criss Jami

“Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.”

Ifs Trying Heart Kind May Different Soul Faces Artist Example Painting Masters Perspective Hundred Claims All Kinds Painter Working It Display Masterpiece Heart And Soul Different Perspective

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Waiting Willing Reader Excited Empowering Something New Proven Publishers Doing You Reviewers

Author:Lois Lowry

“I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard.”

Ifs Knows Trying Wells I Can Hard Kids Honest Work Out Being Honest Try Your Best

Author:Ryan Lochte

“Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.”

Ifs Knows Trying Stories Form Courses Crime Entertainment

Author:Steig Larsson

“Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.”

Ifs Trying Believe I Believe Stuff Written One Thing Heard Crazy Honestly Shirts Shirt Off

Author:Taylor Lautner

“If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.”

Ifs Trying Different Play Whole Break Records Fit Speed Ritual Backwards Groove Turntables

Author:Christian Marclay

“If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.”

Ifs Feels Trying I Can Play

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.”

Ifs Trying Years Grows Risk Taught Willing Performers New Things Improvisation

Author:Jack McBrayer

“I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!”

Ifs Thinking World Trying Jobs Culture Clear Comedy Nice College Customers Stores Extras Just One 80s Hideous Malls Retail

Author:Jayma Mays

“If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.”

Ifs Trying Sometimes Hate Challenges Interesting Balls Harder Screens Tennis Really Interesting

Author:Joseph Morgan

“People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.”

People Ifs Trying Might Powerful Serious Graduates Users Bloggers Wordpress

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Looks I Can Ideas Shows Next Fans Succeed No Idea Next Time Honored Do The Best Best Work Flattered

Author:Poppy Montgomery

“If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.”

Ifs Should Trying Projects Checks Each Day Contractor

Author:Robert Metcalfe

“I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!”

Ifs Trying Wells Eye Artist Bits East Shade Ancestor Mixtures Eyelids Anglo Saxon Make Up Artist

Author:Olivia Williams

“My family keeps me pretty grounded. Like if I try anything diva, they're like, 'Oh shut up. Go and do the dishwasher.'”

Ifs Trying My Family Shut Up Grounded Dishwashers

Author:Rebel Wilson

“I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Names Christianity Discipline Please Angry Tired Islam Damage Divides Going To Work

Author:William P. Young

“When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.”

Ifs Trying Looks Hard Bigs Obvious Reports Google Fashionable Big Business Analysts Skype

Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.”

Source: The ABC of Money: Including The Way to Wealth and The Gospel of Wealth

“Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.”

“Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience.”

Ifs Trying Ends Given New Things New Experiences

Author:Alli Simpson

“Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.”

Ifs Knows Trying Stills Running Fall Company Know How Standing Boards Shore Software Again And Again Surf Adviser Software Company

Author:Joel Spolsky

“We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, it’s just so much better. You’re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Trying Kind Goal Decision Rich Products Source Marketing Strikes Capitalist Users Modest Venture Open Source Venture Capitalists

Author:Blake Ross

“For me, it’s about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you’re trying too hard and I don’t think that actually makes you look good. I’ve known from very early on that I don’t look perfect.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Looks Hard Perfect Known Trying Too Hard

Author:Clemence Poesy

“If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.”

Ifs Trying Whole Gone Whole Life Being Famous

Author:Matthew Perry

“If you try to hit a grand slam, you’re going to strike out.”

Ifs Trying Strikes Slam

Author:Jon Stewart

“If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.”

Ifs Trying Littles Behinds Cutting Couple Jokes Let Me Hey Stink Massage Stitches

Author:Wanda Sykes

“And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Looks Persons Matter Hard Optimistic Pessimistic Optimistic Person

Author:George W. Bush

“Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.”

Ifs Trying Artist Values Turns Records Truth Is Difficulty Threat Photographer Selling Contradiction Gray Shade Cash Worn Shades Of Gray

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.”

Ifs Trying Persons Kids Figures Normal

Author:Katherine Paterson

“You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.”

Ifs World Trying Eye Political Responsibility Moral Willing Happenings Injustice Political Life Moral Life

Author:Bill Ayers

“We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want.”

Ifs Way Want Trying Shows Walks Player Musician Iron Maidens Metallica Iron Maiden

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.”

Ifs Trying Observation

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.”

People Ifs World Trying Helping Genetics Underdog

Author:James D. Watson

“If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.”

Ifs Want Trying Looks Important Team Areas Balls Boxes Drifting

Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?”

Ifs Feels Trying Littles Hard Body Asks Pay Cutting Policy Needed Behavior Quitting Firm Boards Employee Unfair Unemployment Behalf Dissatisfied

Author:Janet Yellen

“I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.”

“If you want to look your best, be creative, try some new ideas, and have fun doing it.”

Ifs Want Trying Looks Ideas Fun Creative Having Fun New Ideas Be Creative

Author:Kevyn Aucoin

“Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice a lot. You have to keep learning because world keeps changing and competitors keep learning. You have to go to bed wiser than you got up. As you try to master what you are trying to do – people who do that almost never fail utterly. Very few have ever failed with that approach. You may rise slowly, but you are sure to rise.”

People Ifs Thinking World Want Trying May Practice Failing Masters Bed Approach Wiser Competitors Keep Learning

Author:Charlie Munger

“I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.”

Ifs Trying Character Feelings Jobs Degrees Paper Draws Ideals Notes Drawing Planning Comic Rough Nails

Author:Dave Gibbons

“Defeat only happens when you make the decision to stop trying. Because determination works. Steady forward motion, even if it's just a step per week, gets you there. So keep moving, even if it's only a little some weeks.”

Ifs Trying Littles Happens Moving Decision Steps Week Determination Defeat Steady Keep Moving Stop Trying Forward Motion

Author:Ken Evoy

“I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.”

Ifs Giving Trying Made Ends Waiting Term Chance Mistake Late Give Me Too Late Behaviour Made A Mistake I Made A Mistake

Author:Francois Hollande

“If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.”

Ifs Trying Copies Toasts

Author:Eric Ries

“If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.”

Ifs Want Trying Player Team Intimidating

Author:Bobby Orr

“You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.”

Ifs Should Trying Children Childhood Dangerous Our Children Your Children

Author:Mike Lookinland

“I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.”

Ifs Thinking Trying I Can Enough Facts Dream Bigs Can Do Proof Aspiration Productive Being Real Lifelong I Can Do It Embarking

Author:Elliott Yamin

“Life will drag us kicking and screaming to our destiny if we try to escape it.”

Ifs Trying Destiny Drag Our Destiny Kicking

Author:Alberto Villoldo

“If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.”

Ifs Trying Vision Accomplish Slips

Author:Peter M. Brant

“I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible.”

Ifs Feels Trying Heart Real Walks Rooms Auditions Faking It

Author:Jennifer Damiano

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