My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
If God can't get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won't get to anything else you got.
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
The fact that rap has a strict meter and stays to a click means that you have to make your thoughts concise.
What is your Unique Selling Proposition? What makes you different than your competitors? Wrap your advertising message around that USP and communicate it in a clear and concise manner.
Very few negotiations are begun and concluded in the same sitting. It's really rare. In fact, If you sit down and actually complete your negotiation in one sitting, you left stuff on the table.
I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.
Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.
You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'
