Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

Putting your pride first makes the results come in second, at best.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• Think and grow rich.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Grow

• God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • God
  • Black
  • Mistake

• I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • World
  • Writing
  • Why

• Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • You
  • Amazing
  • Honor

• 'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Live
  • Kids
  • motivation

• It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • People
  • Me
  • Finding

• I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Up
  • Time
  • Own

• The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Women
  • Earth

• When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Believe
  • You
  • Attention

• I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • She

• There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • World
  • Art

• Simply: the practice makes the master. Practice every day, or at least try to sing, as much as you can. And I don´t stop, if I´m not on tour, I´m on a studio, and if I don´t, I do it for pleasure, I do it every day, is something that is part of my life.7

  

  Luis Miguel
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Practice

• Making people laugh is the greatest gift you can give, so I'm never going to stop that.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • People
  • Stop

• There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life.'

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Life
  • Work

• And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Values
  • Creator
  • Annihilator

• I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Important
  • Health
  • Sports

• A lack of resources may slow you down, but don't let it make you throw away a big idea. Give God five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, twenty-five years, thirty years, forty years, or more. Give God all the time He needs to bring the resources to you!

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Idea
  • Resources
  • Lack

• There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Knowledge
  • Pride
  • Temptation

• If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Problem
  • Results
  • Cook

• Putting your pride first makes the results come in second, at best.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Pride
  • Results