Mo Ibrahim Quotes

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

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• I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Business
  • Best
  • New

• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Remember
  • Words

• It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Want
  • Know
  • Question

• Downloading songs is not good.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Songs
  • Downloading

• To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Up
  • Country
  • Character

• I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Mom
  • Always
  • Yourself

• In the mornings, I use a good moisturiser and a colouring lip balm. In the evenings, though, I like to go a little glam.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Good

• The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • Hate

• Markets shouldn't be moving in a straight line.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • Moving

• It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn't reaping the lion's share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Lion

• There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

  

  Bob Woodward
  • People
  • Culture

• It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

  

  Epictetus

• We built a business for ourselves just out of hard work, and I think people really want to hear from us about that.

  

  Mark Duplass
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• Without mentioning any names, there was a film that was being done, and I ran into the producer on the plane. It was a book that I really, really loved, and I said, 'I'd love to be a part of this.' And they made it clear that that was not going to be possible - for no particular reason other than that there was just no part for a black person.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Done
  • Book
  • Black

• Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.

  

  Elizabeth Fry
  • May

• My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

  

  Dave Brubeck
  • School
  • Dad

• When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.

  

  John Strachan
  • Fall
  • Humanity

• I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really do have to learn to accept your own mistakes as part of the beauty of music itself.

  

  Zach Condon
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Drama

• Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point.

  

  Quint Studer
  • Learning
  • Moving
  • Teaching

• I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

  

  Mo Ibrahim
  • Moving
  • Conclusion