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Mwai Kibaki Quotes

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: kenyan
Birth: November 15, 1931

Topics

Leadership Opportunity Greed Better

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

Comedy You Mayor Going Idol Elect

It's important to build trust if you're trying to deal with big things. Big issues require everybody to get outside their comfort zone, and people are more willing to do so if they believe that their partner is sincere in their efforts. And the only way you can do that is to engage them on a personal level.

Trust People Comfort Zone Believe

They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor.

John William McCormack

Work Together You Information Find

I grew up in front of the camera from an early age. It distorts your perception of who you are. Having a lot of attention at a young age is not healthy.

Amanda de Cadenet

Age Perception Camera Attention You

I really think the people I run into in the NBA, whether it's the front office side or in coaching, everybody wants to work in an atmosphere where everybody's pulling in the same direction.

Work People Direction Think Run

The military does very well taking average people and making them very good leaders.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Good People Military Average Well

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Fashion Slave Against Who He Goes

I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.

Deborah Eisenberg

Experience Short Like Stories Very

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

Failure Time Inevitable Economy

I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.

Good Humor Caring Book Story Think

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

Life Myself Think My Life Artist

As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.

People Me Think Loved More Kid

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