Behdad Sami Quotes

The difference between trying and doing is one leads to success, while the other leads to excuses.

Behdad Sami

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• I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Day
  • Diversity

• I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Happens

• I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Dreams

• Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

  

  Washed Out
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Why
  • Science
  • Political

• Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Childhood
  • Nose

• I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Night
  • Day
  • Fool

• Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Really
  • Italian
  • Early

• I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Security
  • Jeans
  • Followed

• If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Love
  • Like
  • Leave

• In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Perfect
  • Crazy

• I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Career
  • Fighting
  • Thrive

• We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Up
  • World
  • Money

• I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Moment

• I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Years
  • Seven
  • Member

• I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

  

  Zac Efron
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Think
  • Guitar
  • Touch

• It was the roughest day of my career, my final day of shooting on 'Breaking Bad,' knowing that I will never be able to kind of zip on that skin again.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • Career
  • Kind

• There's this perception that there's a pipeline problem for women and people of color. I don't buy into that. I think we have a broken doorbell problem, and there are plenty of women and people of color standing at the doorstep trying to get in the door, and nobody's opening it.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • People
  • Women
  • Trying

• When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.

  

  Bjarke Ingels
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Give me a treat, or leave me alone. It's Monday.

  

  Saraya-Jade Bevis
  • Giving
  • Alone
  • Monday

• Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Business
  • Success
  • Achieve

• The difference between trying and doing is one leads to success, while the other leads to excuses.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Success
  • Difference
  • Leads