Kofi Annan Quotes

Change is a process which has to be managed.

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• One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Words
  • Imagination

• Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Creative
  • New
  • Capitalism

• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • World
  • Best
  • Powerful

• I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Home
  • Living
  • Once

• I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Love
  • Everybody
  • Anybody

• I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Serious

• I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • More
  • Social
  • Russia

• Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Career
  • Never

• Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • People
  • Real
  • May

• I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Work
  • Education
  • Goal

• It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee; - And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • May
  • She
  • Sea

• It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Contentment

• If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

  

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • Children
  • Family
  • Home

• Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Heaven

• L'amante, per aver quel che desia,Senza guardar che Dio tutto ode e vede,Aviluppa promesse e giuramenti,Che tutti spargon poi per l'aria i venti.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

  

  Anais Nin

• I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.

  

  Eric Close
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hope

• To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Long
  • Risk
  • Missing

• I've always wanted to have the ability to do what I want to do. And there are so many things that I want to do because I love acting, I love directing, I love producing, I love being a mother, I love being a wife. If I had to choose one, just would put me in the crazy house.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Mother
  • House
  • Wife

• Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Changes
  • Rights
  • Empowered

• Change is a process which has to be managed.

  

  Kofi Annan