If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?
‐‐ John Rowland
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
‐‐ H. G. Wells
If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.
‐‐ Mitt Romney
If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.
‐‐ Joel Siegel
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
‐‐ Tony Benn
If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't have urbanites, you don't represent eaters, okay? You don't have people from New York City on these committees, you are going to end up with the kind of farm bills we have: a piece of special interest legislation.
‐‐ Michael Pollan
If you film a little boy going to school, the big event in that boy's day and all the classmates' and teachers' day is you being there filming, not the school.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer
If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though you're the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close - which you wouldn't be doing if you were actually in a room with these people.
‐‐ Alex Karpovsky
If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.
‐‐ Robert Anthony
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
‐‐ Frank A. Clark
If you find a series of linear shapes in the same alignment as known archaeological features, and they match excavated examples, you still need to excavate to confirm, but you can be fairly sure that the imagery is accurate.
‐‐ Sarah Parcak
If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?
‐‐ Roger Ebert
If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
‐‐ Nathan Wolfe
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
‐‐ Maya Angelou
If you find my aggressive and dominating play dirty, then that's your opinion. But I would assume most people want someone who is going to do anything and everything within the lines to win for their team, because I know I would.
‐‐ Ndamukong Suh
If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.
‐‐ Jonathan King
If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.
‐‐ John Ensign
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
‐‐ Princess Diana
If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.
‐‐ Laura Riding
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
‐‐ Rumi
If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.
‐‐ James Purefoy
If you find yourself caring for a relative with dementia, the chances are you'll need help.
‐‐ Phyllis Logan
If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.
‐‐ Jonas Armstrong
If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.
‐‐ Tim Robbins
If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.
‐‐ Harvey Mackay
If you fire people, you fire customers.
‐‐ Ferdinand Piech
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
‐‐ Ramakrishna
If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk
If you focus more on the inside, you'll feel just as great about the outside. I feel attractive when I'm doing good and helping people.
‐‐ Keke Palmer
If you focus on producing a great experience for anyone, that's how you get big.
‐‐ Kevin Systrom
If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
‐‐ Victoria Osteen
If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it's the people already in the workforce. Why not give industry a voice?
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun
If you focus on the things you can't do, you'll destroy yourself. Just remember everything you can do.
‐‐ Giles Duley
If you focus on what people care about, you have ideas. And people are looking for solutions.
‐‐ Rob Portman
If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.
‐‐ Grimes
If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.
‐‐ Spike Jonze
If you fold your clothes in the formal spark of joy, you can actually make the joy last longer.
‐‐ Marie Kondo
If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast.
‐‐ Phil Ramone
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
‐‐ Samuel Butler
If you follow the trend, you'll always be right behind it.
‐‐ Lindsey Haun
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.
‐‐ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?
‐‐ Thomas Friedman
If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
‐‐ Rand Paul
If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.
‐‐ Dean Norris
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim
If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed.
‐‐ Lyle Lovett
If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.
‐‐ James Hilton
If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld