Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

Wanna run a killer business? Design it from the start so that it's leverageable, expandable, predictable & financeable - & you're unstoppable.

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• I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Career

• Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • God
  • Hope
  • Beautiful

• I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Always

• Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Light
  • Fence
  • Phone

• The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Belief
  • Tongue
  • Hug

• A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Conflict
  • Balancing

• I can't stand recipes that don't have background.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Stand
  • Background
  • Recipes

• I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Live
  • Everything
  • Someone

• I am an Indian, so I do yoga.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Yoga
  • Indian

• Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Play
  • Internet
  • Rules

• The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Terrorist
  • Capital

• I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.

  

  Karen Black
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Playing

• The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive light, there must have been light to enter it.

  

  Louis Agassiz
  • Nature
  • Light
  • Purpose

• One thing about Notre Dame, it's like a service academy in a lot of ways. There is a closeness.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Service

• I'm just used to working harder than everybody and other people taking the credit.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People

• People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • People
  • Different
  • Church

• I didn't really know any Buddy Garritys, but I knew they were out there.

  

  Brad Leland

• Practicing love is a difficult thing to do. It's much easier to get angry.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Angry

• When I was a child, Sunday afternoons felt like they could last a week or a month. Increasingly, as I get older, time is going so, so fast.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Time
  • Sunday

• The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.

  

  James Buchan
  • Great

• In this business, things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me; that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Business
  • Waves

• Wanna run a killer business? Design it from the start so that it's leverageable, expandable, predictable & financeable - & you're unstoppable.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Business
  • Design
  • Killer