Maajid Nawaz Quotes

Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism - and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.

Maajid Nawaz

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MeCommunismThoughtBackLostIdea

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

Jennifer Beals

PersonWayAbilityWhateverRestore

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Malraux

FailureCourageIdeasBetterPerson

There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.

Matt Mullenweg

GreatDesignDoingYouDevelopment

Someone like a Bob Marley - he was singing Scripture.

Sonny Sandoval

SingingSomeoneLikeHeScripture

My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. I don't use it to pray before a competition. I'll just pray normally to myself, but I have it there in case.

Simone Biles

MyselfCompetitionMeMomChurch

I can do a lot of stuff, score goals with my left, right, and head.

Romelu Lukaku

GoalsI CanRightHeadLeftScore

Here's the thing. You can't get ten thousand hours of skiing. You spend so much time on the chairlift. My coach did a calculation of how many hours I've been on snow. We'd been overestimating. I think we came up with something like eleven total hours of skiing on snow a year. It's, like, seven minutes a day.

Mikaela Shiffrin

SnowTimeDaySkiingThinkYear

I've worked for some amazing leaders, and I've worked for the opposite, and that gave me the perspective of what I knew I never wanted to be, and the perspective of what had lasting, sustainable impact.

Mindy Grossman

PerspectiveAmazingMeImpactNever

I supported Barack Obama. I wasn't very quiet about my support. I thought he was going to be a refreshing change to George Bush. But what has happened is that we have an election that's become a single-issue election, and that issue is Barack Obama. And he's an icon to both sides.

Jonathan Turley

ChangeSupportThoughtElection

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

Clayton M. Christensen

EfficiencyThreeAffectCapitalJobs

I'm a polarizing person, so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success, failure is a perspective.

CM Punk

SuccessFailurePerspectivePeople

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

William Inge

FaithSpiritualWorldRecognition

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