Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

Do you want to be super successful? Never appeal to people’s mercy or gratitude... Appeal only to their self-interest & see the results.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Want
  • Sure
  • Restaurant

• Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Money
  • Future
  • Present

• Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Work
  • Look
  • Well

• I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Think
  • Game
  • Unique

• Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • New York
  • Cocktail

• There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, ... And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • Night
  • Smoking

• Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Life
  • Important
  • Art

• 'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Shine

• But Master, Sky-heart, Knight of our fairer dream, You do still tread this day; Nor bows nor spears shall stay your steps. You walk through all our arrows.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Sky

• Τὸν κρατοῦντα μαλθακῶςθεὸς πρόσωθεν εὐμενῶς προσδέρκεται.

  

  Aeschylus

• Ninety percent of my mentors have been male, most of them with very little in common with me on a personal level - from life experience, work experience, backgrounds, etc.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Life
  • Work
  • Experience

• My motivation wasn't really to get a $95 million contract, you know?

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • motivation

• I realized my calling was to use the arts and ministry to help young people.

  

  Ben Harney
  • People
  • Help

• We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Past

• There's a method to the madness in filmmaking, where everything's very specifically laid out, the shots and what they need - but there also can be a freedom to allowing the actors to find genuine moments.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Freedom
  • Moments

• I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • People
  • Art
  • Party

• If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.

  

  Nancy White
  • Humans
  • Agree
  • Planets

• We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.

  

  George Arthur Buttrick
  • Writing
  • Journey
  • Enough

• Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Want
  • Story
  • Finding

• It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn't.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Good
  • Game
  • Football

• Do you want to be super successful? Never appeal to people’s mercy or gratitude... Appeal only to their self-interest & see the results.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Gratitude
  • Results
  • Mercy