Im from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I … - Kumail Nanjiani - Quotesmemo.com

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

Popular Topics

Amazing Music, Stage, Education, Weak, Dress, Night, Town, Things, Lifetime, Humble, Difference, Kind, Name, Private Life, Humbly, Life, Creative, Identity, Knowledge, Living My Life, World, America, Story, Excellent, Happy, Jesus, Ocean, Children, Smile, Angry, Impossible, Inspire, Life Is Like, Thinking, Goodbye, Guru, Today, Fly, Snows, Kids, Worry, Looking For Love, Possible, Football, English, Religion, Willing, Art, Lives, Diamond

Kumail Nanjiani

Im from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.

Doctors, Family, Sort, Think, Thinking, Would Be

Same Author Quotes

I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

Feeling, Feelings, Insecurity, Like, Thinking

We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This is a more realistic portrayal of what happens in startups.

Happens, Majority, Portrayal, Realistic, Stories

The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan's a scary place. They don't have religious freedom. It's very poor, and there's a lot of violence and corruption.

America, Corruption, Freedom, Place, Religious, Scary

You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. Its specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

Discipline, Hours, Motivate, Needs, Specific, Vague

I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.

America, Crazy, Happy, Pakistan, Rich, Thought

Similar Quotes

Peter Guber

I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I are analog creatures. We have to take 'oohs and aahs' and convert them to 0s and 1s and then convert them back to 'oohs and aahs. ' Narratives that work in social networks are the exchange of stories that are told well.

Analog, Back, Stories, Technology, The End Of The Day, Thinking

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.

Knees, Man, Men

Zhuangzi

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

Beautiful, Beauty, Existing, Rotten, Things, Ugly

Gary Zukav

Gary Zukav

The new female is competent in all that she chooses. She chooses whatever her heart tells her. She can create a business, lead a country, drive a truck, hammer nails, deliver mail, or raise a family. She is at home in every social and physical environment. She can be a housewife, if she chooses. She can be anything else, too. She is intuitive and heart centered. She is all that a female has been, and more.

Business, Centered, Country, Home, Raise, Tells

Sarah Jaffe

Sarah Jaffe

I was really kind of miserable with myself personally and all of the things that you can be creatively, until someone said - and I don't know what about it made it click at this specific time - but they said, "You're not 18 anymore, and you're not writing songs in your old bedroom. It's work. You should get up every day and set a perimeter of time and start compartmentalizing your life. "

Kind, Perimeter, Song, Specific, Work, Writing