Oyinbo Quotes & Sayings

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win. — Carl Lewis

I'm the only president you've got. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Why would you want to bring a foreign coach? Why? If you bring a foreign coach, you might as well bring foreign players, white players to play for Nigeria. If you bring a European coach, he should also bring oyinbo (white) players. That's how it is. — Stephen Keshi

The path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root in God Himself — Pope John Paul II

And after you register your own company, you must find a white man. Find one of your white friends in England. Tell everybody he is your General Manager. You will see how doors will open for you because you have an oyinbo General Manager. Even Chief has some white men that he brings in for show when he needs them. That is how Nigeria works. I'm telling you. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

NOCEBO: Latin for "I will harm"; a negative placebo; physical manifestation of pessimism; self-fulfilling prophecy of disbelief. In the nocebo effect, a bad result occurs without any physiological bias. In one study, women who believed they were more prone to heart disease were four times more likely to die of it than women with the same risk factors but without a pessimistic outlook. — Jon Winokur

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The essence of the Way is detachment. — Bodhidharma