Abdelwahid Aboud Quotes & Sayings

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before. — Casey Stengel

I generally start each day with a cup of coffee or tea - sometimes two. This morning, it was coffee (two). Why not tea? I am in no position to know. I wanted coffee more than I wanted tea today, and I was free to have what I wanted. Did I consciously choose coffee over tea? No. The choice was made for me by events in my brain that I, as the conscious witness of my thoughts and actions, could not inspect or influence. Could I have "changed my mind" and switched to tea before the coffee drinker in me could get his bearings? Yes, but this impulse would also have been the product of unconscious causes. Why didn't it arise this morning? Why might it arise in the future? I cannot know. The intention to do one thing and not another does not originate in consciousness - rather, it appears in consciousness, as does any thought or impulse that might oppose it. — Sam Harris

In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I'd like to do. — Tim Finchem

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind. — Ariel Pink

Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answer was yes, then I knew that I would always be wrong, because I could never do it. Then how could one live in a world in which one's mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? There were no answers. — Richard Wright

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours ... — Simone De Beauvoir

One experienced minute sometimes teaches us more than a lifetime. — Wladyslaw Sikorski

For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions — Lou Gerstner

The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House. — Linda Tripp

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

Sometimes in life we can't choose the path we walk, the path we travel on, but we can choose how we decide to walk our path in life. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends. — Arthur Kornberg

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones. — Jonathan Safran Foer