Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people; it’s about retaining them.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Gay

• I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Different
  • Family

• His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • People
  • Great
  • High

• The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Wisdom
  • Bodies
  • Adopts

• If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Important
  • Imagination
  • Clue

• It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Attention

• I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • People
  • Real
  • Person

• To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Thinking
  • Moon
  • Woe

• Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

  

  Cleopatra
  • Live
  • Fool
  • Times

• Our fans wanted us to be together way before we even realised that we had feelings for each other. Our fans helped us win a dance reality show, and so we decided to share our love with those who have made us who we are.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Together
  • Reality
  • Dance

• Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to such large things - sky, sea, hill, the vagaries of weather, the undeniable needs of animals - that I can disappear as a subject of interest, I can exist without self-consciousness. The city is a challenge for me, however thrilling a few days prove, for its insatiable overstimulation and the rarity of quiet. The city makes people bigger than they need to be.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • People
  • Mean
  • Animal

• I enjoyed meeting Emma Watson. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Child
  • Actors
  • I Love

• My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Passion

• Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

  

  Edwin S. Shneidman
  • Virtue
  • Universal
  • Introspective

• If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.

  

  Angela Thirkell
  • Play
  • Heaven
  • Pleasure

• I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.

  

  Adi Shankar
  • Feel
  • Creating
  • Urge

• Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people; it’s about retaining them.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Companies
  • Great People
  • Retaining