Behdad Sami Quotes

Don't work harder than your competition, be your own competition.

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• You think about taking audiences on a journey.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Think
  • You
  • Journey

• I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Mean
  • Things

• I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Great
  • Real
  • Wish

• We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Mind
  • Running

• I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Music
  • Simple

• Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Trying
  • Relationship
  • Winning

• First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Small
  • Focus
  • Size

• Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

  

  Zendaya
  • Important
  • You
  • Just

• People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Done
  • Day
  • Story

• I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Way
  • Person
  • Feel

• Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

  

  Yousef Munayyer
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Respect

• I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Time
  • Great
  • Script

• Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Find
  • Trouble

• There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.

  

  Pat Brown
  • You
  • Kind
  • Victim

• When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Speak
  • Act
  • Consequences

• The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Me
  • Devil
  • Beast

• Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Life
  • Real
  • Soul

• None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming and maintaining free governments, and among those who are so far advanced, very few indeed have had the good fortune to form constitutions capable of endurance.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Truth
  • Integrity

• Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Work
  • Philosophers
  • Hammer

• Don't work harder than your competition, be your own competition.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Work
  • Competition