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

• I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • New York
  • Cities
  • Favorite

• 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

• The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Song
  • Inspired

• I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Freedom

• When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Violence
  • Religion
  • Dreams

• 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

• The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me I have lived my life and that which I have done May he within himself make pure but thou If thou shouldst never see my face again Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • God
  • Dreams
  • Pray

• So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Fire
  • Snow
  • Ending

• 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

• 'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Think
  • Community
  • Comedy

• 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