Ola AlSaggaf > Ola's Quotes

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
― Jimmy Johnson

“What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.”
― Jason Fried, Rework

“When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.”
― Jason Fried, Rework

“That world may be real for them, but it doesn't mean you have to live in it.”
― Jason Fried, Rework

“Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“TAKE CARE OF THE PEOPLE, THE PRODUCTS, AND THE PROFITS—IN THAT ORDER”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“Build a culture that rewards—not punishes—people for getting problems into the open where they can be solved.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in. We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But a wise man named Levin said it right. He said, “Love is the only rational act.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“‏"لا تنتظر أن يخلّصك أحد، لأن أحداً لن يأتي.”
― بثينة العيسى, خرائط التيه

“وعرفت بأن المء إذا تفتت، سيتفتت معه ألمه، وإذا تكتل، سيتكتل معه ألمه.”
― بثينة العيسى, خرائط التيه

“ليس من حقك أن تعطي طفلك أمانا كاذبا؟ ولكن أتدري أين المشكلة؟ المشكلة أن الأمان كله كاذب، الأمان كذبة.”
― بثينة العيسى, خرائط التيه

“وأنا أحب أن أكون على هامش الناس وأحب أن يكون الناس على هامشي لايتدخلون في حياتي وإنما اتفرج على حياتهم , وأن نتلاشى ذهاباً وإيابا
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― أنيس منصور, في صالون العقاد كانت لنا أيام

“ولكن يبدو أن الشعور بالوحدة في الجنة، كالشعور بالوحدة في جهنم .. إنه شعور بالغربة”
― أنيس منصور, في صالون العقاد كانت لنا أيام

“My only advice for reading the book is stop reading when it is no longer fun.”
― Richard H. Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Everyone shines, given the right lighting.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“If you're an introvert, you also know that the bias against quiet can cause deep psychic pain. As a child you might have overheard your parents apologize for your shyness. Or at school you might have been prodded to come "out of your shell" -that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and some humans are just the same.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success