Quotes by Lebanese Authors - Page 4

There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.
Rawi Hage
The American dream is what has kept Americans from rebelling against corporate corruption.Now that 2/3 of us know it's dead, expect anything.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Any deal that recognizes Iran "right" to enrich is a prelude to fiasco and tragedy.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Successful entrepreneurs figure out when to drive their ideas forward & when to listen to constructive criticism.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Always follow your heart ... But take your brain with you too.... Be smart.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
That who sold the expensive for no price, bought the cheap with the highest price.
Raja Rayshouny
My features have blunted with the passage of time, my reflection only faintly resembles how I see myself. Gravity demands payback for the years my body has resisted it.
Rabih Alameddine
Only he who is free with his time is free with his opinion.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
NEVER accept "conventional wisdom" when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?
Ziad K. Abdelnour
I was convinced that I was totally incompetent in predicting market prices - but that others were generally incompetent also but did not know it, or did not know they were taking massive risks. Most traders were just "picking pennies in front of a steamroller," exposing themselves to the high-impact rare event yet sleeping like babies, unaware of it.
Nassem Nicholas Taleb
What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
Kahlil Gibran
You looked inhuman when you were dying, Doc, your eyes glistened like dimming stars, you were wasting away and life was leaving you piecemeal, your soul no longer fit your body, you hated it and I hated it and I couldn't recognize you and I couldn't see you and I was frightened and I never knew what to do, I looked for the man I love in you and I searched for who I used to be around you and I couldn't find either.
Rabih Alameddine
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.And let the wind of the heavens dance between you.
Kahlil Gibran
People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be....Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Always remember... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless...
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The eye always fills in the imperfections.
Rabih Alameddine
Instead of protesting and cursing others because they write "X-Mas" instead of "Christmas"; try being Christmas. Live Christmas. Breathe Christmas. Act Christmas. Speak Christmas. Reflect Christmas. Listen and feel ChristmasChrist doesn't care how you write Christmas; he cares how you live Christmas all year long.
Sandra Chami Kassis
Those who are skilled in combat do not become angry. The wise win before the fight and the ignorant fight to win.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The longer you fight, the stronger you become.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
...I wondered at times whether I would wake up and this would be just a bad dream, a nightmare that I could wish away, I had the same fantasy when you were sick, Doc, that I would one day wake up and you all would be healthy and alive.
Rabih Alameddine
Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?
Jean Said Makdisi
There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Make decisions even with incomplete info. You'll never have all the info you need. What matters is what you do with the info you have.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision.
Nido Qubein
AN IMPERIALIST POWER THAT ACTS ON ITS OWN REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE REST OF THE WORLD THINKS. 18–29 30–49 50–64 65+ Improper/Somewhat improper 86% 73 69 67 Somewhat proper/Proper 3 13 20 17 No other group we studied—not Democrats generally, not self-described progressives or libertarians, not readers of The New York Times—had a greater spread between the two extremes.
John Zogby
nothing knee-jerk about their politics. Two out of three of them say that abortion is “always” or “usually” morally wrong. They are far more likely than voters age thirty and over to identify themselves as politically “strictly independent.” In fact, more than any other generation I’ve tracked in my polling, Globals seem determined to find a middle ground on the hot-button issues of the day and to decide each one on a case by case basis, not because their party leaders are urging them in one direction or the other. I like to tell audiences that while First Globals might not be more...
John Zogby
four meta-movements that separately and together are redefining the American dream: living with limits, embracing diversity, looking inward, and demanding authenticity.
John Zogby
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The day you wake up thinking the world is yours is the day you start living.
Samer Chidiac
The clothes or accessories you do or don't wear are a statement, a reflection of yourself; that is why you should always try to wear 'who you are' not anyone else.
Sandra Chami Kassis
Look beyond what you can see, Think Potential
Samer Chidiac
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Kahlil Gibran
If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear.
Kahlil Gibran
Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.
Amin Maalouf
You will never solve problems unless you face them head on.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
If you make a hiring mistake, make the change quickly. Don’t ignore problems. Don’t assume it will get better.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.
Amal El-Mohtar
Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return..... Forget not that I shall come back to you....A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and anohter woman shall bear me.
Kahlil Gibran
There are no such things as secrets only truths that have yet to be revealed.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
True Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Art thou like me, child of my darkest heart? And dost thou think my untamed thoughts and speak my vast language?” “Yea, we are twin brothers, O, Night; for thou revealest space and I reveal my soul.
Kahlil Gibran
If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Beirut is the Elizabeth Taylor of cities: insane, beautiful, falling apart, aging, and forever drama laden.She'll also marry any infatuated suitor who promises to make her life more comfortable, no matter how inappropriate he is.
Rabih Alameddine
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life....
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Kahlil Gibran
I walked back to the window to look down at the people who shared this city with me. The people who made every day a series of mediocrities.The unreformed murderers masquerading as businessmen in borrowed suits and debt-laden cars. The voluptuous bimbos floating around in an inexplicable mix of vacuity and despair. The crumbling face of my building looked pretty enough from across the street, but from here I could see how worn it was. I peeled off a satisfying chunk of paint, cement and matter. And I let it fall to the street below.
Nasri Atallah
Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
Kahlil Gibran
No matter how far down a path you go, if it's the wrong path, turn around and go back home - before it is too late.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Being self-owned is a state of mind.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Under opacity and in the newfound complexity of the world, people can hide risks and hurt others, with the law incapable of catching them. Iatrogenics has both delayed and invisible consequences. It is hard to see causal links, to fully understand what’s going on.Under such epistemic limitations, skin in the game is the only true mitigator of fragility.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
As for the errors I make, the only punishment I acknowledge for having made them is my awareness of those errors, and having to live with it: there is, there should be, no heavier penalty on a person's soul, mind and heart.
Joumana Haddad