If you're the quarterback and want to be the best on the field, you've got to act like it.
‐‐ Chad Kelly
If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.
‐‐ Bryan Callen
If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
‐‐ Vin Diesel
If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen
If you're the water boiler king of China, you're selling a billion water boilers.
‐‐ Kevin Kwan
If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course.
‐‐ Lucas Black
If you're thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell everyone in the company; let them all in on the truth. Say, 'Listen, if this gets out, we'll probably lose the deal, so we're all in this together.'
‐‐ Biz Stone
If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.
‐‐ Jeremy Clarkson
If you're thinking the road ahead is a little shorter than the one behind you, you're thinking about trying to write a good song and hoping to make a decent record of it.
‐‐ Mark Knopfler
If you're tired, you shouldn't make yourself exercise. Take a nap instead. It's about getting an appropriate amount of work and rest. I get very crabby if I'm not well-rested.
‐‐ Ellie Kemper
If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood
If you're too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that's what this is for. It's about building confidence and that's what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian
If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.
‐‐ Jackie Chan
If you're too much in control, you feel too secure in your shoes, and where's the emotion to keep going in life? To keep that spark going, you have to feel like an outsider.
‐‐ Mariacarla Boscono
If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
‐‐ P. C. Cast
If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.
‐‐ John Malkovich
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter
If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting.
‐‐ Martha Beck
If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
‐‐ James Baldwin
If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.
‐‐ Gary Allan
If you're truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth.
‐‐ Corbin Bernsen
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
‐‐ Michael Jordan
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.
‐‐ Mark Haddon
If you're trying to be an actor, sometimes you get lucky, and you end up on 'The Office', but if you don't, and you know that you have something to say, it's really, really fortunate to be able to get to write and star in your own comedy.
‐‐ Riki Lindhome
If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.
‐‐ Jonah Lehrer
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
‐‐ Elon Musk
If you're trying to cut down the distance travelled from the farm to your plate, it makes sense to do the same for your pet. If we all shifted our bias towards sustainable pet food, we would be helping more than just our faithful friends.
‐‐ Sheherazade Goldsmith
If you're trying to develop a new drug, that costs you a billion dollars to get through the FDA. If you want to start a software company, you can get started with maybe $100,000.
‐‐ Peter Thiel
If you're trying to diet, what do you do? You grab your two friends and say, 'We're going to the gym; let's do this together.' Money shouldn't be any different. If you're trying to make progress, if you're trying to save more, we really need to be able to get support.
‐‐ Alexa Von Tobel
If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.
‐‐ Andrew Stanton
If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.
‐‐ Josh Homme
If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.
‐‐ Phil McGraw
If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.
‐‐ Laurel Clark
If you're trying to impress a girl, go with something that doesn't look like you're trying to impress, but you should still make an effort. It goes back to what you're comfortable with. Look like you're there with interest.
‐‐ Matthew Daddario
If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf
If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.
‐‐ Bryan Fuller
If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen
If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.
‐‐ Alexander Payne
If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money.
‐‐ Robert Crumb
If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it.
‐‐ Linda Sue Park
If you're trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media.
‐‐ Evan Osnos
If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to turn out with quite the authenticity and passion it should have.
‐‐ Terrence McNally
If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.
‐‐ Taylor Swift
If you're unable to catch it in time, the cancer can spread to the lymph nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn't mean your condition can't be improved.
‐‐ Len Dawson
If you're under 26, you can stay on your parents' plan. You can go back to school or get extra training without fear of a health catastrophe bankrupting your family. Over three million previously uninsured young adults are now on their parents' plans.
‐‐ Kathleen Sebelius
If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.
‐‐ Marian Seldes
If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen
If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.
‐‐ Edward Lampert