Ziad Abdelnour Quotes

One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends.

Ziad Abdelnour

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• We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Always
  • Progress

• How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Book
  • Want
  • Decision

• Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Home

• Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Exercise
  • Innovation
  • Most

• My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Work
  • Parents

• Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Why
  • Know
  • Never

• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Truth

• When you give a man a dole, you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him of his destiny.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Destiny

• Chanel lambskin, vintage Vanson I'm on the bike doing wheelies in a mansion

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Bike
  • Vintage
  • Materialistic

• The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

  

  Alain Aspect
  • Society
  • Revolution
  • Inventions

• Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...

  

  Joanne Rowling

• Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Anxiety
  • Anxious

• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Earth

• The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Moral

• I'm happy with my language progress - the only difficulty when I tour Premier League matches is that different people talk to me in different accents - and sometimes I can hardly understand a word!

  

  Fabio Capello
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Punishment
  • Correct
  • Purposes

• Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

  

  Reggie Jackson
  • Blind
  • Pitch
  • Park

• Those whose minds are merged in Samadhi, are not deluded by the external jugglery. They are quite fearless. Siddhas (God realized souls) are not afraid of the world. A tiger or a cobra, when they see such a person, become calm, forgetting their ferocity. Similarly, all animals become calm at their sight. Even enemies forget their enmity and become friendly. As soon as they see a sadhu, they become stone-still. What is the cause of this? It is because of their doubting nature. At the sight of a sadhu, there is no darkness. Mind gets purified, realizing the Satwa quality.

  

  Bhagawan Nityananda
  • Enemies
  • Fearless
  • Ferocity

• Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Time
  • Future
  • Culture

• Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

  

  Will Durant
  • Hands
  • Property
  • Grandchildren

• One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends.

  

  Ziad Abdelnour
  • Enemies
  • Harm
  • Be Smart