If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?
‐‐ Joe Rogan
If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.
‐‐ Peter Mullan
If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
‐‐ R. Buckminster Fuller
If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.
‐‐ Alex Kingston
If you are the record label who owns Lady Gaga, and you have a new artist coming up, you can say, 'Let's have the artist play just before Gaga.' Now you've exposed the huge Gaga audience to the new artist. It's similar to showing a trailer before a movie. The hit creates a hit.
‐‐ Anita Elberse
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
‐‐ Barbara Bush
If you are thinking every day, 'I have to get to the gym' and 'I have to lose this weight,' and that's all you think about and you obsess over it, it's not healthy.
‐‐ Carmen Electra
If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm
If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley
If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.
‐‐ Zlatan Ibrahimovic
If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music. I mean, this world has enough of that right now, where it's basically McDonald's making music. 'Everybody needs another hamburger and fries.' Here's a piece of crap that nobody's gonna care about it two years.
‐‐ Corey Taylor
If you are too proud, you don't do business.
‐‐ Marc Rich
If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive
If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny.
‐‐ Sarah Silverman
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz
If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph.
‐‐ Rene Burri
If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams
If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.
‐‐ Tony Blair
If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.
‐‐ Naoto Kan
If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.
‐‐ Robert Herjavec
If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer
If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms.
‐‐ Juan Marichal
If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
‐‐ Ramana Maharshi
If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.
‐‐ Mark Skousen
If you are wearing the right jersey, people rallying in around you, and hugging each other when you win, and there's so much love and excitement when you're together. And then people seem to walk away, take their jerseys off, and start focusing on the color of your skin. It didn't matter for that couple hours at the game - why does it matter now?
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua
If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard
If you are what you eat, then you are shaped by what you share as you eat.
‐‐ Deng Ming-Dao
If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.
‐‐ Martin Jacques
If you are who you are on stage, people pay attention.
‐‐ Rita Rudner
If you are willing to take the trip through 'Analogue,' you'll be rewarded with some of the best writing in gaming today and a look into the future of what kind of meaningful stories video games are capable of telling.
‐‐ Rob Manuel
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft.
‐‐ Ben Okri
If you are working with high quality products, you can elevate the flavors more by cooking it at a low temperature than you can by searing it.
‐‐ Daniel Humm
If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.
‐‐ Suze Orman
If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.
‐‐ Rob Lowe
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
‐‐ Theophile Gautier
If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.
‐‐ Matt Damon
If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader.
‐‐ Gayle Lynds
If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.
‐‐ Justin Cronin
If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.
‐‐ Brendan O'Carroll
If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera
If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.
‐‐ Bill Dixon
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
‐‐ Daniel Boulud
If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.
‐‐ Michelle Malkin
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
‐‐ Vince Lombardi
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
‐‐ Joe Namath
If you aren't going to do something all the way, don't do it.
‐‐ Maureen McCormick