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“الاسماك الميتة فقط هى التى تسبح مع التيار”
― محمود عوض, أفكار ضد الرصاص

“أنا مكلف بعقلي الذي في دماغي, وأنت مكلف بعقلك الذي في دماغك, لا تستعير عقل أحد - ليعمل كل منّا عقله. - عدنان إبراهيم”
― عدنان إبراهيم

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
― Will Durant

“لو أدرك شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمية أو الغزالي أو النووي عصرنا لكان لهم اجتهاد ربما صادم لنا في هذه اللحظة التاريخية ، لأن تغير العصور وتغير الأزمنة تؤدي إلى تغير الاجتهاد”
― جاسم محمد سلطان

“لا يهمني أن أكون أغنى رجل .. قدر مايهمني أن أعود للفراش في المساء وأنا أشعر أنني قمت بشيء رائع !”
― ستيف جوبز

“وعندما يتخلى رجال الدين عن هذه المهمة وينشغلون في حمل آمال وآلام من نوع آخر، بل ويتحولون إلى عوامل تخدير للناس وأدوات لتمرير أهداف الظلمة، من المتوقع حينئذ أن يبتعد الناس عن الدين ويبحثوا عن ما يحقق لهم طموحاتهم في أيديولوجيات أخرى غير دينية.”
― Ali Shariati, التشيع العلوي والتشيع الصفوي

“Think of it this way: it can take 15 years to become an overnight success!”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“Our moods and performance can often depend on whether this self-talk is positive or negative.”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“An extra 1% self-belief every day gets you almost 100% in three months”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“The ivory tower analogy is no joke – is it any coincidence that top management is often on the top floor? That’s physically about as far away from customers as you can get.”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“For me as the founder, it was shocking to see how having a more formal structure with lines of reporting and processes can so easily start to disconnect you from the customer.”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“standing in customers’ shoes and seeing the world from their perspective is better than just relying on their feedback or reaction.”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you’ve got it built, they’ll want something new. —Steve Jobs”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“Pretend you are a customer of your own company”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“Becoming switched on is about forgetting the “this is how we’ve always done it” mentality and wiping the slate clean”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“As companies grow they acquire a dogma that constrains them.”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“A good way to capitalize on cluelessness is to work with people who are qualified not by years on the job but by attitude towards it – enthusiasm, inspiration and creativity.”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“one factor behind his company’s innovative products is that it employs graduates straight from university.”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“By the late 1990s Xerox had lost its dominance in photocopiers. Its past success had paralysed it and consigned it to history.”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“The problem with large corporations and their competitors is that they subscribe to the same industry magazines, get the same body of research and even hire the same people. The”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. —Henry Ford”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn: It can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the wrong person’s brow. —Charles Browder”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“Prototyping is about doing small experiments at low cost, using what you have to hand.”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“Educational psychologist Jerome Bruner of New York University cites studies that show that people only remember 10% of what they hear, 30% of what they read, but about 80% of what they see and do.”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is very true for creative thinking.”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“If you wait too long for the perfect idea, your creativity will stay between your ears in inertia.”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“prototyping lets you make your mistakes and discoveries as soon as possible in the development process, so you can change things and move on.”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“Howard Schulz approached 242 people to raise money for Starbucks and was rejected by 217 of them.”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on

“Walt Disney was turned down for a loan for Disney theme parks 300 times.”
― Sahar Hashemi, Switched On: You have it in you, you just need to switch it on