Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Character
  • Personality

• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Exploration

• I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Parents
  • Perfect
  • Safety

• Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • American
  • Together
  • Violence

• We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Desire
  • Creative
  • Active

• A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Desire
  • Audience
  • Conformity

• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Future
  • Stop
  • March

• I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.

  

  Becky G
  • World
  • Music
  • Family

• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Great
  • Player
  • Defeat

• Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Black
  • Rock
  • Tree

• I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Sister
  • Three

• I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Life
  • Man
  • Gardening

• Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Up
  • Special
  • Authority

• I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Power
  • Help
  • Man

• In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

  

  Forrest Bird
  • Air
  • Human
  • Wings

• Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Writing
  • Joy
  • Process

• Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Single
  • Diversity

• At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Knowledge
  • Wish
  • Question

• The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

  

  Beatrix of the Netherlands
  • World
  • Desire
  • Wish

• Today, I count myself blessed to have become a photographer. To be able to articulate the experiences of the voiceless, to bring their identity to the forefront, gives meaning and purpose to my own life.

  

  G.M.B. Akash
  • Life
  • Today
  • Giving

• All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Life
  • Lemons
  • Lobster