Yasmin Mogahed Quotes

We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to 'speak' to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always 'speaking'. The question is whether we are listening.

Yasmin Mogahed

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• Question
• Listening
• Speak
• Asking

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• Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Change
  • Beginning

• There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Anniversary
  • Her
  • Buried

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • You
  • Just
  • Appreciate

• In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Book

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Interest
  • Oil
  • Mess

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Challenges

• Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Time
  • Great
  • Guy

• The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Mind
  • Manners
  • Even

• The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • London

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Singer
  • Got

• I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Myself
  • Sleep
  • Depression

• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Find

• My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • God
  • Song

• I love thee, and it is my love that speaks.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Speak
  • For Her

• I think one of the best jobs in the universe must be being the editor of 'The New Yorker', but there are a number of magazines that I'd be excited to be the editor of. They would be 'Wired', 'The New Yorker' and probably, 'Vogue'.

  

  Michael Wolf
  • Think
  • Excited
  • Would

• We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to 'speak' to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always 'speaking'. The question is whether we are listening.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • God
  • Question
  • Listening