Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land. ”

Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences. ”

People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner. ”

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.' ”

People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them. ”

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. ”

I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places. ”

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project. ”

When I taught, all my best students were women. ”

Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. ”