Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Most leadership writing today advises us on how to prosper within the system. I believe real leadership is about transforming the system.
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Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
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I believe in giving back.
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I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
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I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
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Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
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If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.
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Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
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The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
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You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.
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I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.
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Many political experts have told me that nobody will vote for me because America is not ready for such decisive and dynamic leadership. They tell me these things, and I say nay to the negative nincompoops who never nourished the nihilistic nerve to name a novice to nail down the nomination.
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Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history - empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.'
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I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.
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Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.
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Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
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When we invent a new technology, we become cannibals. We eat ourselves alive since these technologies are merely extensions of ourselves. The new environment shaped by electric technology is a cannibalistic one that eats people. To survive one must study the habits of cannibals. (p. 261)
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Most leadership writing today advises us on how to prosper within the system. I believe real leadership is about transforming the system.
