Umair Haque Quotes

In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.

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• I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • People
  • Up
  • Government

• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• I have selective hearing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Hearing
  • Selective

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • Drug
  • Meaning

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Gift

• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Gay
  • Living
  • Lesbian

• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Art
  • Business
  • Career

• The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Way
  • Concrete
  • Capability

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Vulnerability
  • U.S.
  • Monsters

• The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Science
  • End
  • Theory

• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Alone
  • Lonely

• Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Work
  • Way
  • Dark

• Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Science
  • Criticism
  • Myths

• In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving; I was going to eat the next day.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Life

• Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times.

  

  James Gray
  • Retirement

• In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Mind
  • Conversation

• What has happened with underclassmen declaring for the NBA draft? It is absolutely wacky, baby!

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Baby
  • Happened
  • NBA

• So many ways to be deemed unclean

  

  Frances Bean Cobain

• In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.

  

  Umair Haque
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Strategy