Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

You are only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with, so be brave enough to let go those who keep weighing you down.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Strength

• Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Real
  • Practice

• Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• Be comfortable. I think if you're comfortable, you exude confidence, and that leads to good style.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Good
  • Style
  • Confidence

• What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Law

• Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Good
  • Great
  • Literature

• I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.

  

  Ice T
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  • Never
  • Hammer

• In fact, Mr. Watson, it's a queer world, and the longer I live in it the queerer I find it. Once I thought it would be a good idea to regulate things myself and run the world as it ought to be run; but I gave it up long ago. The world's a stage, they say; but the show ain't always amusing, by a long chalk, and sometimes I wish I didn't have a reserved seat.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• We play a long show, and you can't beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

  

  Ned Beatty
  • Good
  • Perfect

• Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Good
  • Motherhood

• I love experimenting with clothes for photo shoots, but when I'm onstage, I want to show people that there are other options. You can just be yourself and still make good music.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Those who know how to think need no teachers.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Think
  • Know
  • Teacher

• I'm at the point where you look back on your life and reflect. I've always been an unbelievable critic of me. If we lost a game, I blamed myself every night. I'm very proud of some of the things I did as an athlete, as an executive.

  

  Jerry West
  • Life
  • Game
  • Night

• When you make a black-and-white movie with two people in it in 2016, you're taking a swing at something.

  

  Mark Duplass
  • People
  • Movie
  • Black

• Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Freedom

• When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • Job

• You are only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with, so be brave enough to let go those who keep weighing you down.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Good
  • Surround
  • Weighing