If you build your own chair, there is a lot of things that happen. You could probably buy a nice chair for less money than a chair that you built yourself, and it might even look better, but if you build that chair, you're going to take care of it and maintain it because it's your chair. If it breaks, you know how to fix it.
‐‐ Mark Frauenfelder
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
‐‐ Jackie Kennedy
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
‐‐ Lou Holtz
If you buy a sweater for €1,000 and you know that the funds you are paying are also going to help to build a hospital and a school, wouldn't you think better about it?
‐‐ Brunello Cucinelli
If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don't think there's a point to it.
‐‐ Tom Selleck
If you buy something online, you're supposed to pay a use tax.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis
If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.
‐‐ Antonio Banderas
If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
‐‐ Benmont Tench
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
‐‐ Mason Cooley
If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.
‐‐ Henry Longhurst
If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.
‐‐ Viktor E. Frankl
If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.
‐‐ Steve Winwood
If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.
‐‐ Mark Russell
If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.
‐‐ Narendra Modi
If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd think our society was preponderantly full of middle-aged, slightly alcoholic, middle-class, intellectual men, most of whom are divorced from their families and have nothing to do with children.
‐‐ Mark Haddon
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
‐‐ Vince Lombardi
If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.
‐‐ Roger Ebert
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty
If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at the door, then you've done something pretty terrific as a writer.
‐‐ Joanne Harris
If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
‐‐ Norman Ralph Augustine
If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki
If you can attract highly educated people from other parts of the country and keep your own best and brightest, chances are the job creators are going to be successful.
‐‐ Mick Cornett
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich
If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it's something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don't sit at home and think about it too much, though - there's plenty of other things in my life going on.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll
If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
‐‐ Kate Braverman
If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.
‐‐ Amber Valletta
If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it's more fun.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
‐‐ Edmund Burke
If you can beat New Zealand, then you're probably going to win the World Cup.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll
If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.
‐‐ Greg Graffin
If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.
‐‐ Cesar Romero
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
‐‐ Ronnie Lott
If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.
‐‐ Alexis Arguello
If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.
‐‐ Chris Hardwick
If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.
‐‐ Emily Blunt
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
‐‐ Ian Botham
If you can clearly articulate the dream or the goal, start.
‐‐ Simon Sinek
If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.
‐‐ Yohan Blake
If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor
If you can contribute 45 minutes - one hour a day a week exercising, you're going to be a healthy person. You can cut down on diabetes and all of these manmade problems we have. I do embrace the fact that I can maybe be a voice for people to realize that it's not as hard that people think. I'm a pretty passionate person.
‐‐ Mehcad Brooks
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty
If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.
‐‐ Jennifer Carpenter
If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.
‐‐ Jo Durie
If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.
‐‐ Michael Sheen
If you can depict situations and explore life in a truthful way and explore areas of grey - because that's where the truth lives - and you can do that in an objective way and allow people to take from that what they will, I think it's a satisfying sweet spot with storytelling.
‐‐ Christopher Rouse
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut
If you can do it then why do it?
‐‐ Gertrude Stein
If you can do something great in 60 seconds, you can do anything, really.
‐‐ Joanne Froggatt
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio