Imran Amed Quotes
A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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I remember when TiVO first came out I was all about TiVo. I came home and that thing was frozen, and I thought 'This is awful. This is the end of the world'. Then I unplugged it, and I plugged it back in, and still frozen. It was paralyzing. I called them. They said, 'Just unplug it longer.' Fixed. But it also taught me I'm an addict.
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I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.'
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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There are no accidents; success is the result of doing the right thing, in the right way, over and over.
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Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.
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The essence of nature guiding is to travel gracefully rather than arrive.
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A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
