Mafanikio Katika Quotes & Sayings

After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong. — Harold Macmillan

The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes. — Andy Stanley

Thus, as the Buddha said to a lady who offered him a curse,the gift is returned to the giver when it is not accepted — Allen Ginsberg

I'm not the type to generalise about an entire generation. I think the most general thing I can say, is that things are way more dispersed, and way more de-centralised than they were twenty years ago. I don't really feel like people talk about my generation the way people would talk about Generation X in their early 90's when Nirvana blew up. I feel like there was an easier, more coherent narrative to find, than you can now. — Chris Baio

Walk around Tokyo and all you see are people trying to sell you something. Tell them okay and before you know you have bought something. Make the mistake of telling your address and now you're on a mailing list. Some old guy pats you on the shoulder and before you know what hit you you're in a hotel room. Stalkers' victims, the ones they kill, are always women. — Natsuo Kirino

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people. — Charles Dance

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become. — Guy Finley

I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown. — Wynton Marsalis

The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving up on reading altogether - when you are limited to the school material and you get bored, you have a tendency to give up and do nothing or play hooky out of discouragement.
The trick is to be bored with a specific book, rather than with the act of reading. So the number of the pages absorbed could grow faster than otherwise. And you find gold, so to speak, effortlessly, just as in rational but undirected trial-and-error-based research. It is exactly like options, trial and error, not getting stuck, bifurcating when necessary but keeping a sense of broad freedom and opportunism.
Trial and error is freedom. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There are so many great directors that I haven't worked with and that I would love to work with. — Jeremy Piven

I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life. — Mark Hall

My Master is so utterly in tune with me, that I've never had to use my safeword. And trust me, I'd use it if I needed to. — Nikki Sex

History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. You didn't have to stay stuck in the past, like the ladies in the DAR, or the Gatlin Historical Society, or the Sisters. And you didn't have to accept that things had to be the way they were, like Lena. — Kami Garcia

I never really chose to be a writer. It's just always been what I do. Writing chose me... — Te Russ