abdiwahab Ahmed

“You don't need more time, you need more focus.

Fewer projects. Fewer commitments. Fewer obligations. Fewer responsibilities.

Carefully choose what you commit to, then go all in.”
― Shane Parrish

“Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance. People with good judgment weigh the assurance of a comfortable living represented by the mariners’ certificates that declare them masters of all ships, whether steam or sail, and masters of all oceans and all navigable rivers, and do not forsake such work in order to learn English and write books signed Joseph Conrad. People who have had hard lives but somehow found themselves fetched up in executive positions with prosperous West Coast oil firms do not drink and wench themselves out of such comfy billets in order in their middle age to write books as Raymond Chandler; that would be poor judgment. No one on the payroll of a New York newspaper would get drunk and chuck it all to become a free-lance writer, so there was no John O’Hara. When you have at last progressed to the junction that enforces the decision of whether to proceed further, by sending your stuff out, and refusing to remain a wistful urchin too afraid to beg, and you have sent the stuff, it is time to pause and rejoice.”
― George V. Higgins

“و أنا ابنة هذي الأرض ، و ابنة كل الأمهات الثكالى
و ابنة عروس أمس المترملة ..
و ابنة كل الرجال المقهورين و المكلومين
و ابنة الصبر ، و الصبّار
..
انا ابنة هذا الوطن المرهق ...”
― Huda Aweys

“In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.”
― Shane Parrish