All Quotes

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

If you are going to point a finger, you point it at me.
‐‐ David Wells

If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
‐‐ Liev Schreiber

If you are going to replace somebody off of one of the bills - which I have no problem with a lady being on one of the bills - that you would replace the 20.
‐‐ James Lankford

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
‐‐ Hyman Rickover

If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.
‐‐ Rebecca Ferguson

If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to feel courageous, brave, and assertive. They need to feel strong; that is the purpose of their play.
‐‐ Brian Sutton-Smith

If you are going to talk negative about a place, you're almost throwing yourself out to begin with because golf is a mental game.
‐‐ Jordan Spieth

If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

If you are going to think the same as everyone else and do the same as everyone else, you will end up being the same as everyone else. In today's competitive environment you have to think a bit differently.
‐‐ Lloyd Dorfman

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
‐‐ Tommy Bolt

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.
‐‐ Lou Ferrigno

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
‐‐ Alan Garner

If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

If you are going truly viral, you don't need press. I mean, MySpace grew for a very long time without any press.
‐‐ Michael Birch

If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.
‐‐ Mahendra Singh Dhoni

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
‐‐ Antonio Porchia

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.
‐‐ Michael Winslow

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen

If you are having fun on screen, it shows.
‐‐ Teresa Palmer

If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.
‐‐ Eli Roth

If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just be too much of it.
‐‐ Michael Winter

If you are heading for 60, people will flirt with you; if you are heading for 70, they won't.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters.
‐‐ Isabel Gillies

If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
‐‐ Randy Pausch

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.
‐‐ Herbert V. Prochnow

If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices.
‐‐ Michael Schenker

If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.
‐‐ Stephen Chbosky

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.
‐‐ Elaine Paige

If you are in a position to influence someone, you are a leader.
‐‐ Sheri L. Dew

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?
‐‐ Steven Wright

If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.
‐‐ Carolyn See

If you are in Bangkok, you will find that people there will never speak to you without joining their hands. It's not that they are speaking to you like that because you are tourists. They even speak at their home like that.
‐‐ Akshay Kumar

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.
‐‐ Jose Padilha

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
‐‐ Carlos Slim

If you are in Mountain View, you don't resonate with the needs of urban dwellers. Tumblr couldn't have emerged in Sunnyvale.
‐‐ Roelof Botha

If you are in support of in vitro fertilization, then you have to recognize that human embryos are being created in excess of what can be used safely to reimplant for a pregnancy. So they're going to end up being discarded.
‐‐ Francis Collins

If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell

If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.
‐‐ Trisha Goddard

If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
‐‐ Safra A. Catz

If you are in your everyday life, and you feel like you just accomplished something big that you had going on, then that's Beast Mode. It's an accomplishment, that you put yourself through something to get something better out of it. I feel that that's Beast Mode.
‐‐ Marshawn Lynch

If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for "dangerous" climate change.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell

If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.
‐‐ Terry Gross

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.
‐‐ Heath Ledger

If you are just using the service to look at Web sites and download e-mail, then a DSL line may be cheaper. It is when you have more data going out that wireless can make a difference.
‐‐ Blake Farenthold

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
‐‐ Joseph Franklin Rutherford

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
‐‐ Mario Vargas Llosa

If you are killing a chicken and cooking a chicken, it has to taste like chicken. Veal has to taste like veal. You have to be able to identify what you're eating. One of my worst experiences is when I can't tell what I'm eating. It is a waste.
‐‐ Joel Robuchon