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“Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns.”

People Ifs Trying Moving Wonderful Neighborhood Wonderful Things Discouraging Lawns Anonymity Moving In Pasadena

Author:Joe Johnston

“If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.”

Ifs Trying Stills Hard Champion Jail

Author:Amnat Ruenroeng

“I always make it a rule to let the other fellow fire first. If a man wants to fight, I argue the question with him and try to show him how foolish it would be. If he can't be dissuaded, why then the fun begins but I always let him have first crack. Then when I fire, you see, I have the verdict of self-defence on my side. I know that he is pretty certain in his hurry, to miss. I never do.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Trying Firsts Self Shows Would Be Certain Fighting Fun Sides Fire Missing Fellows Arguing Foolish Cracks Defence Verdict Self Defence

Author:Ben Thompson

“I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.”

Ifs Trying Hard Luck Fortune Persistent

Author:Jerry Della Femina

“How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.''But isn't that unkind to the animal?''Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.”

Ifs World Way Trying Years Wells Mean Children Different Whole Lasts Animal Changed Dad Hundred Ill Experiments Whole World One Way Different Ways Exaggeration Unkind

Author:Richard Adams

“A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.”

Ifs Trying Running Cry Doctors Knives Scream

Author:Bill Viola

“I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Wells Guy You Re The Best

Author:Robert Griffin III

“You're not just trying to do something marginally, incrementally better. You're doing something that is a fundamental paradigm shift, that will have exponential impact. That means it's harder to do, but ultimately, if it's successful, the impact it has is far greater.”

Ifs Trying Mean Successful Greater Harder Fundamentals Impact Paradigm Paradigm Shift

Author:Steve Case

“You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And if you lose those, naturally, you try to compensate by other stimulations, by very loud noises, or by bright lights or drugs.”

Ifs Way Trying Light Loses Loss Cities Risk New York Drug Perception Noise Sensual Loud New York City Stimulation Milky Way Bright Lights Loud Noises

Author:Rene Dubos

“It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Trying America Song Asks Sound England Accents

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Team Figures Products Customers Focused Users Remakes

Author:John Katzman

“It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.”

Ifs Trying I Can Moments Song Gun Scripts Right Thing Confetti

Author:Victoria Legrand

“If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.”

Ifs Way Trying I Can Two Done Dies Can Do Acting Security Amount Tomorrow Complaining Hardest This Life Living My Life Hardest Thing

Author:Yul Vazquez

“It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.”

“I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Heart Matter Age America Song Sound Subjects Elements Subject Matter Writing From The Heart

Author:Gerry Beckley

“My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.”

Ifs Trying Important War Might Felt Subjects Particular Medicine University Physics Latter Engineering Glamorous Science Physics

Author:John Henry Carver

“I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Beautiful Song Dies Our Lives Imagine Scared Careful Beautiful Things

Author:Beth Gibbons

“You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.”

Ifs Knows Needs Feels Trying Sometimes Three Come Up Angle Frustrating Fitting Measuring

Author:Beth Gibbons

“All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.”

Ifs Trying Film Audience Hopefully Gravy Best Film

Author:David Heyman

“Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!”

Ifs Giving Trying Important Film Form Acting Stage Possibility Stage Acting

Author:Erland Josephson

“If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.”

Ifs Trying Persons Succeed Decent

Author:Michael Patrick Jann

“In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.”

Ifs Trying Beautiful Force Steps Broken Keys Shots Flow Performances Piano Hitting Really Beautiful Archery Not Pretty

Author:Miranda Leek

“Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.”

Ifs Writing Trying Written Mystery Stupid Theory Dues Permanent Proven Due Time

Author:Joey Santiago

“I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.”

Ifs Writing Trying Long Two Whole Moving Girl Pages Notes Likes Gauges Make A Move

Author:Devon Werkheiser

“Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?”

Ifs Trying Effort Meditation Ego Conscious

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.”

Ifs Men Trying Wells Felt Knowing Stupidity Reputation Make Sense Politeness Scotch Misplaced Reticence

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.”

Ifs Inspirational Trying Sides Grass Fence Your Side Greener

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“If you are a happy person, don't spend your time trying to make an unhappy person happy. Near as I can tell, you have to be a magician to pull it off.”

Ifs Inspirational Trying Persons I Can Unhappy Magician Happy Person Unhappy Person

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?”

Ifs Inspirational Trying Believe Selling If You Believe

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect. But you might want to kick your own a## if you're not trying to get better.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Trying Might Perfect Beats Get Better Kicks Not Being Perfect

Author:Hal Elrod

“Love does not solely belong to one person. No matter how hard you try, if the feeling is not mutual, it'll be fruitless.”

Ifs Trying Persons Doe Matter Hard Feelings Drama Mutual

Author:Jin Sun Mi

“Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for his mother's breast even when he's grown up. Therefore you should not try to satisfy your lust by indulging in sins. This will only increase the desire for more sins. The same is the case with the disease of gluttony. The more a person eats, the more his hunger increases.”

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Author:Busiri

“If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Humans States Animal Environment Planets Eating Meat

Author:David Wolfe

“If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.”

Ifs Trying Children House Left Dark Wonder Walking Our Children Your Children Skates

Author:Leopold Fechtner

“If what we're really trying to do is stop the spread of HIV, we need to think about the customer.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Trying Spread Customers Activism Hiv

Author:Amy Lockwood

“Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to be lies and deception. You can believe it's the truth only after you question, exhaust every avenue, and find that their story checks out. If you're a patriot, it's your duty to always question your government anyway, at every turn. A patriot is loyal to his country and his countrymen, not his government.”

“If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.”

Ifs Trying Action Our Lives Buddhism Activity Perception Mindfulness Direct Our Actions Sense Perception

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.”

Ifs Trying Understanding Attitude Wise Letting Go Compassionate Rebirth Incarnation Just Let Go

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think if you have a preconceived idea before shopping, that makes it difficult. You have to have an open mind.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Trying Mind Ideas Difficult Seasons Shopping Need You Open Mind I Need You Preconceived Ideas

Author:Julia Child

“I should say, the one thing you run into is, if you're trying to raise a round you have to decide, well, how much money are you trying to raise? And then you have to justify that to your investors, because they want to know why you [are] raising that much? Why aren't you raising either twice as much or half as much?”

Ifs Knows Want Should Trying Wells Running Half One Thing Raises Rounds Justify Investors

Author:David Plotz

“People who tend to invest are either going to invest in something where you're raising $5 million or they're going to invest in something where you're raising $1 million, but if you're trying to raise $2.5 million it's kind of a weird amount.”

People Ifs Trying Kind Millions Amount Raises

Author:David Plotz

“If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.”

Ifs Way Want Trying Environment Failing Best Way

Author:Will Ferrell

“What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?”

Ifs Trying Years Together Party Hell Four Democratic Four Years Democratic Party Expediency

Book:Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

“I think that it's important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up, if nobody else will. And that's the kind of judge that I want.”

Ifs Thinking Want Trying Kind Important Support Judging Raises Court Treated Treated Unfairly

Author:Barack Obama

“I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy.”

Ifs Want Trying Believe Happens Stars Crazy Don't Believe Want Something Wild And Crazy

Author:Ester Dean

“I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Lasts Opportunity Stage Approach First Time Last Time

Author:Misty Copeland

“If you ever want to get a sense of your own personal failure, look at yourself trying to get across a point that nobody is listening to and the situation gets worse and worse.”

Ifs Want Trying Looks Situation Listening Look At Yourself Personal Failure

Author:Robert Reich

“When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious genre is the thing you're going to get the most out of. If you're trying to satirise a comedy, it's hard to do that - it doesn't really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I'm a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Wells War Hard Comedy Fans Serious Genre Genre Is War Movie

Author:Ben Stiller

“It's television. The reality of it is, if you go on the boards and people are saying, "I saw that coming," or "This is lame," or "I can't believe they're doing this again..." Having been one of those people myself, I know better, and try to avoid it.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Believe I Can Reality Saws Television Goes On Boards Lame

Author:Damon Lindelof

“There are just so many options that people have. But as a writer, you'll drive yourself crazy, if you worry about that too much. People watch a lot of TV, so they think certain things are going to happen, and you're always trying to subvert expectations.”

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Author:Carlton Cuse

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