Jackline Okeyo Quotes & Sayings

Melville locked himself away in his room for months while working on 'Moby Dick.' If I ever decide to write a novel, I hope someone will take pity on me and take me out to dinner instead. — Marge Simon

Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world. — John Elder Robison

Believing that your company is not just about making money, that there is a meaning and a purpose to what you do, that your company has a mission, and that you want to be part of that mission - that is a big prerequisite for working at one of these places. How that differs from joining what might otherwise be called a cult is not entirely clear. What is the difference between a loyal employee and brainwashed cultist? At what point does a person go from being the former to the latter? — Dan Lyons

Why? Why is it has to be this, why not the other way round? Is there a simpler way? What can I do with this? Ask yourself all sorts of questions. — Jack W.

Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities ... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think. — Bill James

Get the confidence of the public and you will have no difficulty in getting their patronage. — Harry Gordon Selfridge

There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night. — Jorge Posada

They don't want art that might actually change the community. They just want consumers. They don't want people to manufacture things. They'll do the manufacturing, and they just need people to buy it, need youth to buy it. — Malik Yusef

I reflected that for all the people you lost touch with or couldn't hold on to, life occasionally made up for it by giving you the right person at the right time. — Lisa Kleypas

Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back. — Alison Jolly

I'm disturbed because the doctors tell me I'm as sound as a dollar. — John Diefenbaker

The classroom as a living, breathing place. They chose discussions over lectures, experience over theory. They sent students to the Deep South for civil rights projects and to the inner city for fieldwork. They went — Mitch Albom

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators. — Sherman Alexie

I Sing what was lost and dread what was won,
I walk in a battle fought over again — W.B.Yeats

The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available. — John Green