Mohamed > Mohamed's Quotes

“It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.”
― Warren Bennis

“When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Arousal leaves us mind-blind.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”
― Malcolm Gladwell

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Stephen Covey, in his book The 8th Habit, decribes a poll of 23,000 employees drawn from a number of companies and industries. He reports the poll's findings:

* Only 37 percent said they have a clear understanding of what their organization is trying to achieve and why
* Only one in five was enthusiastic about their team's and their organization's goals
* Only one in five said they had a clear "line of sight" between their tasks and their team's and organization's goals
* Only 15 percent felt that their organization fully enables them to execute key goals
* Only 20 percent fully trusted the organization they work for



Then, Covey superimposes a very human metaphor over the statistics. He says, "If, say, a soccer team had these same scores, only 4 of the 11 players on the field would know which goal is theirs. Only 2 of the 11 would care. Only 2 of the 11 would know what position they play and know exactly what they are supposed to do. And all but 2 players would, in some way, be competing against their own team members rather than the opponent.”
― Chip Heath & Dan Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

“Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
― Vince Lombardi

“Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing.”
― Warren G. Bennis

“Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.”
― Warren Bennis

“If you never change your mind, why have one?”
― Edward de Bono

“A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.”
― Edward De Bono, How to Have a Beautiful Mind

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”
― Edward De Bono

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“الشيطان لا يندس إلا بإذن منا”
― نجيب محفوظ

“الخوف لا يمنع من الموت و لكنه يمنع من الحياة.”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا

“سألت الشيخ عبد ربه التائه.
- متى يصلح حال البلد؟
فأجاب :
- عندما يؤمن أهلها بأن عاقبة الجبن أوخم من عاقبة السلامة”
― نجيب محفوظ, أصداء السيرة الذاتية

“ليس أتعس من الحظ السيء إلا الرضا به”
― نجيب محفوظ

“أن تؤمن وأن تعمل فهذا هو المثل الأعلى،
ألا تؤمن فذاك طريق آخر اسمه الضياع،
أن تؤمن وتعجز عن العمل فهذا هو الجحيم.”
― نجيب محفوظ, Miramar

“لو أنّ شيئاً يدوم على حال فلم تتعاقب الفصول؟”
― نجيب محفوظ, الحرافيش

“لا أحذركم إلا من عدو واحد هو اليأس”
― نجيب محفوظ, كفاح طيبة