Abu Ghazaleh Quotes

An efficient telecommunications network is the foundation upon which an information society is built. ~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

How do you achieve success? By two words: Correct decisions ~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Intellectual capital is the main determining factor and the base for economic and social development to any country. ~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

I believe you can only be lucky if you start out being
very good ~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Moving to the forefront of advanced nations is not a choice but a national duty. This requires, among other things, erecting the best industrial property protection systems despite all challenges, particularly in the transition phase that we must endure. ~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that we can react quickly to the needs of our clients and our market place. ~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

With support from institutions like the United Nations as well as the donor community, governments can strengthen their national technological and scientific capacities by devising policies to link up to research networks, encourage technology transfer, and build indigenous capabilities through education and collaborative projects. ~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company. ~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Governments should be role models of leadership and improve the utilization of ICT in all the governmental departments in order to improve the efficiency of governmental services and motivate ICT industries. ~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

He walked out without his money.
The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that. ~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Throughout all the years and in everything we do, we have focused most of all on the development of human capacity, beginning with our own professional staff, and leveraging their expertise to enrich the Arab community. We have embraced the concept of the 'knowledge worker' and have sought to empower our people and the Arab world's people to dream, to imagine, and to create. ~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Business can constitute an enormous force for goodness in society. Through its commitments to corporate citizenship and to the principles of the UNGC, the global business community can continue to create and deliver value to society. ~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

I believe that I was lucky to have suffered.
Some people don't realize that in suffering there is great potential, because if you are deprived for any reason.
Politically, financially, socially or otherwise and if you set your mind in the right direction, you will find that the only way to survive is for you to excel, by being better so you can be treated better. ~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

You will not be able to enjoy a good night's sleep unless you've worked hard during the day ~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Muslims should live like brothers. ~ Abu Bakr

Develop in your heart the feeling of love for your people and let it be the source of kindliness and blessing to them. Do not behave with them like a barbarian, and do not appropriate to yourself that which belongs to them. Remember that the citizens of the state are of two categories. They are either your brethren in religion or your brethren in kind. They are subject to infirmities and liable to commit mistakes. ~ Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive. ~ Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

Only the sufferers of injustice can realize its intensity - Iman Musa Al-Kazim ~ Abu Mohammed Al H Bin Shu'ba Al Harrani

The CIA officer at the black site relayed the report to his headquarters. The CIA's director, George Tenet, was unhappy to learn that the FBI was leading the questioning. He ordered a CIA counterterrorism team to take over in Thailand. "We were removed," Soufan said. "Harsh techniques were introduced" - at first, stripping the prisoner of his clothes and depriving him of sleep for forty-eight hours at a time - and "Abu Zubaydah shut down and stopped talking." Then the FBI took over again. ~ Tim Weiner

Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family. ~ Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

..cold, like swallowed tears. ~ Diana Abu-Jaber

You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people. ~ Abu Bakr

Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes ~ Mumia Abu-Jamal

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now? ~ Abu Bakar Bashir

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most delicate things, the smell and music of thought itself. ~ Diana Abu-Jaber

He who acquires knowledge and acts up to it and teaches it to the people is noble to the angels of heaven and earth. He is like the sun which illumines itself and gives light to other things. Such a man is like a pot of musk which is full of fragrance and gives fragrance to others. He who teaches knowledge to others but does not himself act up to it is like a notebook which does not benefit itself but benefits others or like an instrument which gives edge to iron but itself has got no edge, or like a needle which remains naked but sews clothing for others, or like a lamp which gives light to other things but itself burns. ~ Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

Were it conceivable that a person see only the sun and its light spreading over the horizon, it would be right for him to say: I see only the sun, for the light radiating from it is part of the whole and not extrinsic to it. So everything in existence is a light from the lights of the eternal power, and a trace from its traces. And as the sun is the source of light radiating to every illuminated thing, so in a similar fashion the meaning which words fall short of expressing-though it was necessarily expressed as 'the eternal power'-is the source of existence radiating to every existing thing. ~ Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly ... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. ~ Abu Bakr

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep. ~ Abu Bakr

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks. ~ Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

Technological advancement and modernisation have not brought inner peace and tranquillity. Rather, in spite of the creature comforts that modernisation has brought us, we are further away from inner peace than our ancestors were. Inner peace is for the most part of our lives very elusive; we never seem to get our hands on it... ~ Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips

Hatem said: You are not safe in this world unless you possess four characteristics - (1) overlook the ignorance of man (2) conceal your ignorance from them, (3) seek their good (4) don't seek anything from them. ~ Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

The Prophet said in a sermon: Blessed is he whose concern for his own faults keeps him away of finding fault of others, who spends out of his lawful earnings, keeps company with theologians and the wise, and spurns the sinners and the wicked people. Blessed is he who humbles himself, makes his conduct refined, heart good and does not do harm to the people. Blessed is he who acts up to his knowledge, spends his surplus wealth, abstains from superfluous talks, follows sunnah and does not introduce innovations. ~ Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

You need a visualization of the outside obstacle and what can be better than a wall. For the Palestinians it means a division from each other, because the wall didn't separate Palestinians from Israelis, it separated them from themselves. This is the reality, and the wall is a kind of jail to the Palestinians. ~ Hany Abu-Assad

The cards you have in your hand don't determine the winner but the ones you put on the table do. ~ Abdullah Abu Snaineh

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. ~ Abu Bakr

The effect of the current WMS paradigm on the pharmaceutical industry turned out to be catastrophic (for the patient). The rash of drug recalls that has been beleaguering the pharmaceutical industry in the last twenty years is a direct manifestation of drug design based on an incomplete and often incorrect biological and clinical paradigm. Why has the pharmaceutical industry not been capable of producing new drugs that are safe and without severe side effects, that would represent true "therapeutic breakthroughs," like we were used to seeing in the middle of the twentieth century? Why are the "blockbuster" drugs of recent decades not the safe, therapeutic "breakthroughs" our parents had come to trust in? ~ Mones Abu-Asab

Abu'd-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him) said, "I heard the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), say, 'Allah will make the path to the Garden easy for anyone who travels a path in search of knowledge. Angels spread their wings for the seeker of knowledge out of pleasure for what he is doing. Everyone in the heavens and everyone in the earth ask forgiveness for a man of knowledge, even the fish in the water. The superiority of the man of knowledge to the man of worship is like the superiority of the moon to all the planets. The men of knowledge are the heirs of the Prophets. The Prophets bequeath neither dinar nor dirham; they bequeath knowledge. Whoever takes it has taken an ample portion.'" [Related by Abu Dawud and Tirmidhi; Riyad al-Salihin: 1388] ~ Tirmidhi

But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media. ~ Abu Bakar Bashir

The idea of quick methods to success in this life or the Afterlife is a deception, unrealistic and unislamic. ~ Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar

If you say: what is the way to knowing Him? I would say: were a small boy or an impotent person to say to us: what is the way to know the pleasure of sexual intercourse, and to perceive its essential reality? we would say: there are two ways here: one of them is for us to describe it to you, so that you can know it; the other is to wait patiently until you experience the natural instinct of passion in yourself, and then for you to engage in intercourse so that you experience the pleasure of intercourse yourself, and so come to know it. This second way is the authentic way, leading to the reality of knowledge. ~ Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true saint" goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment. ~ Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr

If you ain't angry, you ain't paying attention. ~ Mumia Abu-Jamal

The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone. ~ Mumia Abu-Jamal

The tongue is like a lion, if you let it loose, it will wound someone. ~ Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib R.A

Normally with any of the races, we go a bit early to get used to the time zone and acclimatize. We'll have a couple of days to see the places. My favorites so far are Montreal and Abu Dhabi. With Abu Dhabi, the facilities are excellent and the weather is always good. ~ Valtteri Bottas

I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an independent status as democratically elected head of the Palestinian people, and it's important if I will talk with him. ~ Ehud Olmert

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life. ~ Abu Bakr

And how can someone be described as flawless [or protector] who is not freed from his lower self ~ Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you. ~ Abu Bakr

Scared? Pray.
Over thinking? Pray.
Losing hope? Pray.
Worried? Pray.
Struggling? Pray.

Pray and trust in Allah! ~ Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips

What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti. ~ Tom Robbins

To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad. ~ Abu Bakr

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. ~ Abu Bakr

The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees what is good, follows it, and when he sees evil, shuns it. ~ Abu Nu`aym