"You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree â€” the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men."

-- Chinua Achebe

#Greatness Quotes #Men Quotes #Yams Quotes

“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”

Source : "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.
“I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
“Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic baton and continue working hard for the great renewal of the Chinese nation, so that we will stand rock firm in the family of nations and make fresh and greater contribution to mankind.”

Source : "Eyes on China's direction under new leadership". Interview with Stephen McDonell, www.abc.net.au. November 15, 2012.
“Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.”

Source : Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.22, University of Chicago Press
“Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty preening of redbirds and bluebirds, the blackbird with the red-tipped wings like startling epaulets.”
“I don't have a Wikiquotes page.”
“Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.”
“Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.”

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