Shinseki Nakamura Quotes & Sayings

Africa is not poor, Africa is being looted — Omali Yeshitela

I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy. — Sam Lipsyte

Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

Most of us, out of a politeness made up of faint curiosity and profound resignation, go out to meet the smiling stranger with a gesture of surrender and a fixed grin, but White has always taken to the fire escape. He has avoided the Man in the Reception Room as he has avoided the interviewer, the photographer, the microphone, the rostrum, the literary tea, and the Stork Club. His life is his own. He is the only writer of prominence I know of who could walk through the Algonquin lobby or between the tables at Jack and Charlie's and be recognized only by his friends.

-on his friend E.B. White — James Thurber

Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions. — Abraham Zaleznik

I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting. — Michelle Rodriguez

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. — Soren Kierkegaard

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober. — Beth Gibbons

It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training. — Raymond Chandler

Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

[Hawthorne's] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while. — D.H. Lawrence

I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support. — Bob Hope