Aminu Kano famous quotes

As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.
-- Aminu Kano

#Strength #Jobs #Children

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.
-- Aminu Kano

#Leader #Boss #Want

One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches.
-- Aminu Kano

#Mind #Scratches #Body

A bowl rotates faster at the top than at the bottom.
-- Aminu Kano

#Change #Faster #Bottom

One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.
-- Aminu Kano

#Decision #Arriving #Realizing

The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!
-- Aminu Kano

#Freedom #Fire #Thorns

The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.
-- Aminu Kano

#Gossip #Doe

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.
-- Aminu Kano

#Mean #Government #Gossip

He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.
-- Aminu Kano

#Party #Hero #Resistance

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.

As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.

My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.

Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.

There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.