top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who do not know what has been giving to him from above, shall never know how to use what he has been giving effectively and efficiently."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very, ' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You only need enough experience to master the art."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Your expertise elevates your impressions to an entirely new realm. When you have paid the price, earned the right, and done the homework to be called an expert, people will be impressed."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Skill to do comes of doing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players."
Skill
"I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home."
Home
"When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions."
Talent
"All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?"
Man
"I always keep a ball in the car. You never know."
Car
"I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention."
Attention
"Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me."
Home
"Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try."
Basketball
"When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa."
People
bottom of page