Ashraf Ghani Quotes

Politicians have become extraordinarily conservative, but our times require imagination and bold action.

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• Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Time
  • Best
  • Professional

• John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Green

• I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Think
  • Living
  • Paradise

• I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • People
  • Friends
  • Thought

• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Unknown
  • Refreshed

• I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Never

• It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Good
  • You
  • Born

• Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Love
  • Earth
  • For Her

• The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Money
  • Free
  • Hurt

• A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Black
  • Lawyer
  • Group

• The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Words
  • English
  • Name

• Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Family
  • Difficult

• I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Think
  • Better
  • Evolution

• I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Think
  • Line
  • Often

• As cheesy as it sounds, nothing beats a smile and a bit of confidence! As long as you feel good on the inside, you can still look beautiful without any makeup at all.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Good
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Things
  • See

• Citizens should bear the responsibility to act.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Responsibility

• Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Earth

• Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Hands
  • Humans

• Women were free in older times when the Islamic nation was strong. There are so many examples in history, not more than a thousand years ago, when Muslim women were leaders, scientists, professionals, and so on. It is all about justice, and justice can be attained through having the rulers accountable to their people.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Women
  • History

• Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Perfection
  • Take Away

• We have 35 different criteria when deciding on the location of a data centre. Tax is one of them.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois
  • Different

• To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

  

  Peter McWilliams
  • Fear
  • Action

• Politicians have become extraordinarily conservative, but our times require imagination and bold action.

  

  Ashraf Ghani
  • Action
  • Imagination
  • Politicians