Nido Qubein Quotes

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Nido Qubein

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• I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Always
  • Poverty
  • Horror

• I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Down

• I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Married

• I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Great
  • Lyrics
  • Just

• I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Career
  • Literature

• I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Giving

• The Monsters & Strangerz, I love them so much.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Much
  • Monsters

• I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • World
  • Great
  • School

• I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • School
  • Home
  • Me

• Malebranche dirait qu’il n’y a plus une âme: Nous pensons humblement qu’il reste encor des cœurs.

  

  Edmond Rostand

• Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Deep

• What's the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? There is a greater difference between what I think in the morning and what I think in the afternoon than between those two parties.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Morning

• Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Survival

• There is a scale of virtues, and it is necessary, if one would mount the higher steps, to begin with the lowest; and the first virtue a man must acquire if he wishes to acquire the others, is that which the ancients called ἐγκράτεια or σωφροσύνη - i.e., self-control or moderation.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Control
  • Wishes

• What defines a leader is his preoccupation with the future. In his head he carries a vivid image of what the future could be, and this image drives him on.

  

  Marcus Buckingham
  • Future

• I wanted to write an adventure in the old-fashioned way, something to which I could apply the adjective 'rollicking' and not feel embarrassed. But I've never liked my heroes to be too heroic, so they ended up being a bunch of criminals instead.

  

  Chris Wooding
  • Up
  • Adventure

• At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Family
  • Law
  • Son

• In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

  

  Lynda Barry
  • Life

• I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Business

• You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Audience
  • Hours
  • Nervous

• When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Mother
  • Film
  • Judgment

• I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.

  

  Charles Gwathmey
  • Fashion
  • Quality
  • Environment

• The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

  

  Nido Qubein
  • Pain
  • Discipline
  • Regret