Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

Achievers move forward at all times. Achievement is not a plateau, it's a beginning.

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• Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Bad
  • Song
  • Beginning

• I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Beginning
  • Been

• At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Idea
  • Unity
  • Rendering

• Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Man

• If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • You
  • Beginning
  • Intelligence

• Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out?

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Mature
  • Out
  • Plateau

• Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Man
  • Beginning
  • Sports

• I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • Race

• I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Perfect
  • Day
  • Beginning

• I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Country
  • Book
  • Beginning

• Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Single

• We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny... The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Today
  • Fighting

• Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

  

  Vanity
  • Character
  • Beginning

• Only God knows the beginning and the end.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
  • Beginning

• I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketches. People don't realize that, with a story, there has to be a beginning, middle and end. There has to be a problem and a resolution. Just because it's six seconds doesn't mean it's not a story.

  

  King Bach
  • People
  • School
  • Beginning

• Our job is to be performers and give everybody a great night where they can forget about their problems and the world's problems, because they're always going to be there. They were there since the beginning, and they're going to be there until the end.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • World
  • Great
  • Job

• I never want to cut music ever again that I'm just kind of into, because we definitely didn't do that in the beginning.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Music
  • Beginning

• To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

  

  Beverly D'Angelo
  • Star
  • Beginning

• I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.

  

  Little Simz

• Is this a personal grudge or are you just psychotic?

  

  Alastair Reynolds

• And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Achievers move forward at all times. Achievement is not a plateau, it's a beginning.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Beginning
  • Achievers
  • Plateau