Augustin Matata Ponyo Quotes

We're trying to bring improved seeds to rural villages to increase yields. We're also trying to improve the roads to make it easier for people to get their produce to the market.

Augustin Matata Ponyo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: June 5, 1964

Topics

RoadsPeopleSeedsTryingImprove

In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played - the part he acted - and we must also know his audience.

Robert Green Ingersoll

GreatManAppreciateGreat ManDrama

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Merle Shain

Ten YearsMoreDaysContentmentTen

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

Ron Fournier

AmericanPoliticalTurnTrickTactic

Donald Trump gets it: he's the genuine article. He's a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers. And when Donald Trump does his talking, he doesn't tiptoe around the thousand new rules of political correctness.

Mike Pence

GamePoliticalTalkingRulesNewHe

It's a wonderful acting challenge to tell a story and convey emotion with only your voice.

Michael T. Weiss

ChallengeVoiceStoryActingEmotion

The schedule on TV is crazy. You could not work for two days but then work from 4 A.M. to 1 A.M. the next day. I definitely wanted more family time.

Donna Lynne Champlin

WorkFamilyTimeDayCrazyYou

Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.

Donald Dunn

YouHaloPlayingStarKnewDid

I don't think I'll ever be a person who likes to work out.

Conrad Sewell

WorkThinkPersonOutWork OutWho

I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.

Cindy Gallop

ChangeGoodPeopleMeWorldPool

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

Chuck Jones

ChildrenGreatBookChanceTest

Obviously, as a marketer, I love to work with brands that aren't static, that have life and personality.

Bozoma Saint John

LifeWorkLovePersonalityStatic

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

William Strunk, Jr.

WordsDrawingReasonSameLines

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