Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

I believe the only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • World
  • Character
  • Book

• Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Short

• A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Down
  • Build
  • Carpenter

• After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Simple
  • Loss
  • Losing

• My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

  

  Olly Murs
  • School
  • Money
  • Dad

• A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Power
  • Society
  • Political

• What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • For Her

• 'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Long
  • Moving
  • Military

• I don't mind dating younger men now.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Dating

• There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Reality
  • Action
  • Independent

• Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Wish
  • Happiness

• I personally believe technology can transform the functioning of the judicial system.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Believe
  • Technology

• On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Great
  • Singing
  • Blue

• Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Writing
  • Book
  • History

• I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Career

• The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Women
  • Same
  • Boat

• I've trained all my life. I've always been one who enjoys training so it's not something that I think I can just stop doing. It might not be as regular but I want to keep training.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Training

• We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Thought
  • Sound
  • Hip Hop

• 'Cause I've got friends in low placesWhere the whiskey drownsAnd the beer chases my blues away.And I'll be okay.I'm not big on social graces;Think I'll slip on down to the oasis.Oh, I've got friends in low places.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Friends
  • Beer
  • Whiskey

• I love to take care of people, so I think I'd be a good vet. I always wanted to be a vet when I was little.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • People
  • Good

• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • History
  • Future
  • Change

• I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy our modern lifestyles use, decide how much energy we would like to use in the future, and choose where we will get that energy from.

  

  David J. C. MacKay
  • People
  • Help
  • Future

• I just think we need to find a way, because we don't dispose of them very well; they have very bad chemicals in them. If we could just find a way, maybe start at a small step with eliminating batteries perhaps in small electronic devices, and then possibly in the future go bigger, that would be great.

  

  Ann Makosinski
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Future

• I believe the only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Future
  • I Believe
  • Predict