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Quotes by Nigerian Authors
"I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17."
"Life is all about flexibility."
"The thoughts that you will never make it comes to every person who ever did something great in their lives."
"The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine."
"Every day you leave a legacy behind, so make it a good one by doing something of significance."
"Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater."
"Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions."
"Dream until you can no longer tell the difference between your dreams and reality."
"A leader should have the same attitude of God's love toward people."
"The challenges you are passing through today, are only preparing you for your success tomorrow."
"No news is good news unless it is told."
"Time is not rigid. It is destructible. It melts away before you know it."
"The whole world will stand still to give you a way to the top if you practice the rule of ten thousand hours. The world gives way to the man who knows where he is going."
"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
"Whenever God allows a mass blindness to cover his church, it is not out of stupidity, it is out of divine providence."
"When you begin to expect miracles, Jesus feels insulted."
"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."
"God rules through light."
"The treasures in you must never be threatened by the gifts in others."
"God always has fresh ideas."
"Go and venture! You should not give up after failures because this gift does not belong only to you."
"Everybody, including you, potentially can be great."
"It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces."
"Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly."
"For a thinking man, the main thing is to understand who he is within."
"We must be true ambassadors of Christ on the earth in order to be able to put an end to the plague of ignorance in our society."
"When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him."
"You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track, and once you're dead, the lickers scavenge for another intellectual candy."
"God's principles work whether we believe them or not."
"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
"Being fearless is not in the absence of fear, it's just about fearing less."
"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."
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