Hawa Abdi Quotes

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

Hawa Abdi

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• Somalia

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• I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• The combined entity Youku Tudou Inc. represents a dominant leader in online video sector in China with the largest user base, most comprehensive content library, most advanced bandwidth infrastructure, and most effective monetization capability.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Leader
  • Library
  • China

• I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
  • Trying
  • True

• When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Society

• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • World
  • Trying
  • Dream

• My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Favorite
  • Go

• When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when the leader has to step in and make a decision because there is no easy consensus, team members will accept that decision because they know that their ideas were heard and considered.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Decision
  • Wonder

• I think it just takes one little snowflake to start a snowball to go down the hill. My contribution and, say, Kendrick Lamar's and some chosen others' start the snowball. That's all I can hope for. I don't know if I'm comfortable being quote-unquote a leader.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Hope
  • Start
  • Leader

• What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• 'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Think
  • Community
  • Comedy

• I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Trying
  • Attention
  • Find

• If in a community of the blind one man suddenly received the gift of sight, he would have much to tell which would not be at all scientific.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Community

• I'm always trying to come down with a win. That's what matters to me and my squad.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Trying
  • Squad

• I look at film, but more than watching individual players, I'm trying to watch a team's whole offensive scheme. I'm trying to know their tendencies so I can... guess. That's what it comes down to, really, making the best guess.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Trying
  • Team

• It is not possible to completely eliminate mediation between you as an observer and the history you are trying to understand.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Trying
  • History

• I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.

  

  Chris Bell Big Star
  • Trying
  • Competition

• I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Time
  • Trying

• We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Trying
  • Military
  • Duty

• Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.

  

  K. Flay
  • Great
  • Music
  • Fun

• Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Powerful

• My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Grandmother

• We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

  

  Hawa Abdi
  • Trying
  • Community
  • Leader