my quotes

Ø  To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Ø  The only real mistake a person makes is the one from which he learns nothing.

Ø  To understand people, I must be able to understand what they are not saying, what they perhaps will never be able to say.

Ø  Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow you; don’t walk beside me, I may not lead you; walk beside me and be my friend  (camus)

Ø  Is the boy you were happy with the man you are?  (John L. Mason).

Ø  Without doubts, man would be more or less a thinking being; in other words thoughtless. (Muogbo Michael).

Ø  Many people succeed momentarily by what they say, some people succeed temporarily by what they do and few people succeed permanently by doing what they say.

Ø  One way to save the face is to keep the lower half shut.

Ø  Life must be understood backward but lived forward. (Soren Kierkegaard).

Ø  Some people are so unconvincing that even their own shadows cannot afford to keep them company. (M.M.I.)

Ø  Prayer before everything, above everything. Setting aside prayer to do more work is a ruinous expedient. Work done at the expense of prayer benefits neither ourselves nor others.  (Father Alberione).

Ø  Nobody is too young to be a teacher and nobody also is too old to be a student.

Ø  Performance of one’s duty should be independent for public opinion.

Ø  We are lonely because we build walls instead of bridges.

Ø  A critic is a reminder of consequences. (Muogbo Michael).

Ø  Coincidence is when God works a miracle and then decides to be an anonymous.

Ø  The value of man is not seen in the dignity of his being but in the worth of his being. (Muogbo Michael).

Ø  An obstinate man does not hold opinion but opinions hold him. (Alexander Pope).

Ø  There is only a degree of difference between a hot water and a steam. (John L.Mason)

Ø  The difference between a suggestion and  an advice is that a suggestion provides an individual with two options out of which one is his idea and the other is not he’s while an advice provides an individual with only one option which is not his idea, and he is expected to work with it. (Muogbo Michael).

Ø  Suggestion is when one tries to impose on another what he will do if he is in the position of the person. (Muogbo Michael).

Ø  Criticism is to an idea, what a catalyst is to a chemical reaction. (Muogbo Michael).

Ø  A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: 'Of course I do not like green cheese: I am very fond of brown sherry.'(G. K. Chesterton ).

Ø  Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. (Samuel Johnson ).

Ø  But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. (John Ruskin ).

Ø  Criticism is not subjective to personal opinion. (Muogbo Michael).

Ø  A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. (Kenneth Tynan).

Ø  Criticism is not intended to be a dogmatic theory; but it is necessary. (Muogbo Michael).

Ø  Ideas may be dogmatic but facts are sacred. (Muogbo Michael)

Ø  A pessimistic sees his quarrel victim and turns left while an optimistic sees him and says “please remind me what I said that day”. (Muogbo Michael).

Ø  This ideas, they don’t tremble me neither do they marvel me____that is lukewarmness. (Muogbo Michael).

Ø  You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. (Eric Hoffer )

Ø  Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. (José Ortega y Gasset).

Ø  If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.( Hermann Hesse).

Ø  Anything that has a specific beginning have a certain end, inevitable. (Muogbo Michael).