Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

Uzodinma Iweala

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• I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

  

  M. Ward
  • Inspiration
  • Dreams
  • Who

• Learn from your dreams what you lack.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Learn
  • Dreams
  • Your Dreams

• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Country
  • Dream

• I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Progress

• I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Myself
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Better

• My dreams are all follies.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dreams
  • Follies

• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Leadership
  • Blessed
  • Dreams

• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Live
  • Art

• No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Leadership
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• My parents were super supportive of my big dreams; I was pretty lucky. I guess I became a musician because I didn't see myself doing or loving anything else as much.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Parents
  • Myself

• Nothing happens unless first we dream.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • First

• The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Quality

• Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Good
  • Long
  • You

• Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Job
  • Night
  • City

• happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Food
  • Poetry
  • Happiness

• There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.

  

  Sebastian Coe
  • Problem
  • Cities
  • Host

• Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.

  

  Erik Larson
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Dark

• Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.

  

  Laird Hamilton
  • Live
  • Enemy

• The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Great
  • Know

• I think that people in general, whether they are male or female, who are inhibited by the clichés of what women are or what men are, really don't like themselves. Because personality traits are not necessarily sexual.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • People
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Dreams
  • Cities
  • Cosmopolitan