"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."

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"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."

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"Nothing should lead you aside from your planned route."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"To become a king of that territory, you must not allow any of your time pass without converting it into building your skills in that area of life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Man usually sees what he is looking for, seldom what he is looking at."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"If we do not set the time limits, we can get caught up in the process and never achieve the goal."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"You have to set yourself a particular goal."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Mindfulness is a quiet strength and deeply rooted value which many other cultures understand and often practice better than we do. It can be puzzling to people from other countries as to why Americans are so task-driven and action-oriented."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"Turn down things that are in consistence with your priorities."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"On your way to accomplish greatness, you will hear a lot of noise. Listen to your inner voice and never let the distraction of the crowd discolour your poise."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Don't exert all your energy on employment, locate your purpose."

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"I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films."

Movies

"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"

Identity

"I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head."

Film

"Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say."

Money

"I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever."

Control

"We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?"

Time

"You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living."

History

"The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice."

Lifestyle

"A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm."

Lifestyle

"I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it."

Music