Nido Qubein Quotes
Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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The most important thing to me is how hard we go after the ball and take care of it.
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It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
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I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.
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When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
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At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.
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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.
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I became a lightning rod for some partisan battles. I could not be prouder of the track record we've put together. By almost every measure, the country is significantly better off than when I came in.
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When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.
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You dont remember days, you remember moments
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My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
