All Quotes

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.
‐‐ Philip Pullman

If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.
‐‐ Jeff Bezos

If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.
‐‐ Leo Burnett

If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't.
‐‐ Bill Bennett

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.
‐‐ Lenny Bruce

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
‐‐ Stanley Kubrick

If you can talk, you can write.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

If you can teach a child, then her family and her future is taken care of.
‐‐ Sunil Mittal

If you can tell a story well, you can move people to do something.
‐‐ Soledad O'Brien

If you can think psychographically and not demographically, you can really target a lot more audiences.
‐‐ Tyra Banks

If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
‐‐ Jack Canfield

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?
‐‐ Trey Gowdy

If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
‐‐ Randy Jackson

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.
‐‐ Eric San

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.
‐‐ Ethan Hawke

If you can use a search engine, you can find any piece of music that's been recorded for free. I'm not saying that's right, but it's a fact, and I'm surprised that more people don't accept or acknowledge that and try to adapt in some way.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.
‐‐ Niklas Zennstrom

If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.
‐‐ Said Nursi

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.
‐‐ Chuck Yeager

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.
‐‐ Jerome Flynn

If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make it sound good, you're probably not writing anything that's going to last a long time.
‐‐ James McBride

If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the brand up and say, 'My positive experience in your product is directly connected and influenced by this brand and that worked great.'
‐‐ Max Levchin

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.
‐‐ David Cameron

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.
‐‐ Jez Butterworth

If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.
‐‐ Drew Endy

If you can write it, I can be it.
‐‐ Karen Black

If you can, you must.
‐‐ Bikram Choudhury

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
‐‐ David Carradine

If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.
‐‐ Robert Metcalfe

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.
‐‐ Shunryu Suzuki

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
‐‐ Nikita Khrushchev

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
‐‐ Marvin Gaye

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?
‐‐ Dogen

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up.
‐‐ John Rhys-Davies

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
‐‐ Thomas a Kempis

If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that's going to be forever chaos. It's time to compromise, to allow more democracy. Those who are stay behind the scenes must hand off and observe the law.
‐‐ Thaksin Shinawatra

If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!
‐‐ Estelle

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
‐‐ Edmund Hillary

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.
‐‐ Al Goldstein

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.
‐‐ Joss Stone

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
‐‐ Lara Logan

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.
‐‐ James Wan

If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
‐‐ Rachel Sklar