Mechai Viravaidya famous quotes

Take No as a question.
-- Mechai Viravaidya

#Creativity #Innovation

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree
-- Mechai Viravaidya

#Tree #Rubber #Deals

People like to have fun and they like to laugh. And when you laugh, it's much easier to convince people and they laugh with you, rather than being angry. And I think laughter's always nice and I've always liked it.
-- Mechai Viravaidya

#Laughter #Fun #Nice

People were having sex before I was born. My parents had sex before I was born, nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to stop sex. I'm trying to stop people from dying from sex.
-- Mechai Viravaidya

#Sex #People #Parent

I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.
-- Mechai Viravaidya

#Moving #Government #Way

The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.
-- Mechai Viravaidya

#Tree #Rubber #Condom

AIDS is still around. Therefore, you have to practice safe sex.
-- Mechai Viravaidya

#Sex #Practice #Safe

What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have a better life. That's real reward. The million dollars, nothing.
-- Mechai Viravaidya

#Real #Dollars #Rewards

We're the ones causing global warming. In fact, what we ought to be saying is population growth is a major cause of it, so I hope to have a T-shirt out very, very soon: Stop global warming, use condoms.
-- Mechai Viravaidya

#Growth #Causes #Facts

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now.