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

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • God
  • Black
  • Mistake

• 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

• I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Help

• I have healed myself through sharing my birth story as well as others' stories in my film 'No Woman, No Cry,' and in various writings and talks about maternal health.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Health

• It's a fantastically specialized universe, but how in the world did it happen?

  

  Charles H. Townes
  • World
  • Universe

• Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

  

  Annie E. Clark
  • Ego
  • Weaknesses
  • Confronting

• Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution of the plan conceived, and renders profitable its results when attained. By continuing to advance steadily in the same way, light constantly increases, obstacles disappear, efficient habits are confirmed, experience is acquired, the use of the best means is reduced to easy action, and success becomes more sure.

  

  Elias Lyman Magoon
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Results

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

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Pride
  • Results