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Quotes by Nigerian Authors
"Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected."
"Every day you leave a legacy behind, so make it a good one by doing something of significance."
"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."
"Dream until you can no longer tell the difference between your dreams and reality."
"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."
"It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces."
"A leader should have the same attitude of God's love toward people."
"When you begin to expect miracles, Jesus feels insulted."
"The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it."
"God rules through light."
"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."
"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."
"If you have a ministry, dedicate yourself to it, do everything with love and with a clean heart."
"Time is not rigid. It is destructible. It melts away before you know it."
"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."
"Our streets are littered with university graduates holding paper certificates and looking for a way to enslave themselves again under a boss in the name of looking for a job."
"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
"Greatness can only be attained through time conversion."
"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."
"I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me."
"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."
"If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices."
"Only through the conversion of time can territories be conquered."
"The aspiration to attain goals overcomes death."
"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."
"Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level."
"At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed."
"Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater."
"The more you care for others, while denying yourself, the more pleasure life supplies you."
"Some of us read the Bible to quote God's words back to Him so as to get Him to make us live a discomfort free life. The reason is not far-fetched - God is not interested in your comfort. He is more interested in your purpose."
"Light was the first thing that came into existence, first in the order of creation."
"Go and venture! You should not give up after failures because this gift does not belong only to you."
"Don't just remain that accidental product."
"When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him."
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