If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.
‐‐ George Kaiser
If you are dressing up, then dress to the hilt, else let it go easy. But no matter what, pay attention to the nails. Whether you keep it short, long, varnished or plain, it has to look good.
‐‐ Sonam Kapoor
If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner
If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.
‐‐ John Bytheway
If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.
‐‐ Sheherazade Goldsmith
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
‐‐ Leigh Hunt
If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.
‐‐ Deval Patrick
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle
If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet.
‐‐ Cameron Russell
If you are everywhere, then you've sacrificed the very thing that you are complaining about, which is your own privacy.
‐‐ Cote de Pablo
If you are explaining, you are losing.
‐‐ J. C. Watts
If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy, in the same way that if you make a lot of money, you pay more in taxes than if you don't make any money.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly
If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.
‐‐ Clare Balding
If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.
‐‐ Richard McCabe
If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
‐‐ Bill Shankly
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
‐‐ Jerome K. Jerome
If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
‐‐ Hal Sparks
If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that a person's sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with their ability to be a good parent.
‐‐ Ronnie Musgrove
If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.
‐‐ Robyn Davidson
If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
‐‐ Theresa May
If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.
‐‐ Jurgen Klopp
If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.
‐‐ Mitch Albom
If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
‐‐ Tiger Woods
If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.
‐‐ Goran Ivanisevic
If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard.
‐‐ Elizabeth Gilbert
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky
If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence you may have. Start upon your own merits, and start in some lowly position, no matter what it is. Be a laborer, if you will. I don't know but that is the best way to start.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab
If you are going out, and if you want women to pick you up, wear skinny jeans. Trust me: women will be looking at your legs and looking at your butt. When I wear skinny jeans, at least one woman will tell me, 'Nice butt.'
‐‐ Nigel Barker
If you are going through something with one of your parents, you know that there is this feeling inside you constantly that something is wrong. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn't matter to you or you don't care, the truth of the matter is that you do, because they are your parents and you love them.
‐‐ Brad Goreski
If you are going to a destination where the food might be more exotic than usual, always err on the side of caution.
‐‐ Stefanie Powers
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
‐‐ Colin Powell
If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.
‐‐ Bo Bennett
If you are going to be a starter in the NFL or a major-college program, you are going to have to beat out other great quarterbacks.
‐‐ Brock Osweiler
If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.
‐‐ Anthony Horowitz
If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm
If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
‐‐ Bryan Fuller
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
‐‐ Mason Cooley
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg
If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
‐‐ Idris Elba
If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner' and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to 'Rocky and Bullwinkle,' you'd see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury
If you are going to do a film about the South Pole, the chances are that you will film it in Hawaii! Whatever is most difficult, you will get to do it.
‐‐ Mike Newell
If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.
‐‐ Bob Hoskins
If you are going to do something potentially for another eight years, you want it to be something that you can really sink your teeth in and that's going to be different and interesting for this next period of time.
‐‐ Kiefer Sutherland
If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.
‐‐ Leo Rosten
If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.
‐‐ Ariel Pink
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
‐‐ Arlen Specter
If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.
‐‐ Lee Kuan Yew
If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
‐‐ Gary McCord
If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, stand in his face and get it started. Then go around, brigade by brigade, making it make sense.
‐‐ Eric Shinseki
If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.
‐‐ Nina Bawden
If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.
‐‐ Jonathan Powell