Philip Emeagwali quote: "Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources."

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and f...
PHILIP EMEAGWALI

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As...
PHILIP EMEAGWALI

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic propor...
PHILIP EMEAGWALI

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was...
PHILIP EMEAGWALI

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have lef...
PHILIP EMEAGWALI

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me...
PHILIP EMEAGWALI

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI

Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.
PHILIP TREACY

Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them.
PHILIP TREACY

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis&...
PHILIP GREEN

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
PHILIP GREEN

You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds ...
PHILIP GREEN

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I...
PHILIP GREEN

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
PHILIP GREEN

They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is ex...
PHILIP GREEN

We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tige...
PHILIP YANCEY

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
PHILIP SIDNEY

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.
PHILIP GREEN

Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
PHILIP TREACY

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
PHILIP MASSINGER

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO

Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO

Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species...
PHILIP ROTH

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion
PHILIP WYLIE

All this, and Heaven too!
PHILIP HENRY

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what ...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos...
PHILIP SIDNEY

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in y...
PHILIP PULLMAN

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim ...
PHILIP CROSBY

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the w...
PHILIP CALDWELL

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't ...
PHILIP LARKIN

Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.
PHILIP MASSINGER

I got a good heart but my attitude gat people thinking I'm evil
GENEREUX PHILIP

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an arm...
PHILIP ROTH

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy un...
PHILIP ROTH

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the bru...
PHILIP LARKIN

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagina...
PHILIP PULLMAN

After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely p...
PHILIP STREIFER

I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes rea...
PHILIP PULLMAN

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly whe...
PHILIP ROTH

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruit...
PHILIP MASSINGER

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
PHILIP PULLMAN

If God could run out of grace, He would’ve for me by now. And yet every morning I wake up, He says...
GENEREUX PHILIP

To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God ...
PHILIP YANCEY

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willi...
PHILIP PULLMAN

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and si...
PHILIP PULLMAN

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
PHILIP PULLMAN

Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of o...
GENEREUX PHILIP

I can’t bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel,” she continued. “Sooner anything than that. I us...
PHILIP PULLMAN

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
PHILIP KNIGHT

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
PHILIP MASSINGER

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
PHILIP WYLIE

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so...
PHILIP ROTH

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you con...
PHILIP ROTH

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the...
PHILIP GUEDALLA

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
PHILIP JOHNSON

Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, an...
PHILIP ROTH

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survive...
PHILIP BUTLER

When in doubt, delete it.
PHILIP COSBY

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
PHILIP ROTH

For we have thought the longer thoughts
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devil'...
PHILIP LARKIN

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
PHILIP MASSINGER

We do pretty much whatever we want to.
PHILIP JOHNSON

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turn...
PHILIP LARKIN

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
PHILIP GIBBS

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
PHILIP MASSINGER

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the w...
PHILIP CALDWELL

I had always imagined that Clich? was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxf...
PHILIP GUEDALLA

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall...
PHILIP MASSINGER

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth...
PHILIP ROTH

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is form...
PHILIP ROTH

That the public can grow accustomed to any face is proved by the increasing prevalence of Keith's ru...
PHILIP NORMAN

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
PHILIP GUEDALLA

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I a...
PHILIP ROTH

But fame is theirs - and future days
On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell - w...
PHILIP FRENEAU

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.
PHILIP CROSBY

No one can remember more than three points.
PHILIP CROSBY

My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
Holds up each summer day and shakes
It out suspiciously, l...
PHILIP LARKIN

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
PHILIP MASSINGER

Since the majority of me
Rejects the majority of you,
Debating ends forthwith, and we
Divid...
PHILIP LARKIN

Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't design...
PHILIP CALDWELL

ARCHITECTURE, n: The art of how to waste space.
PHILIP JOHNSON

Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,
Hid in this silent, dull retreat,
Untouched thy honied...
PHILIP FRENEAU

Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many ...
PHILIP DELANEY

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
PHILIP HENRY

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
PHILIP WYLIE

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
PHILIP ROTH

Moments of complete apathy are the best for new creations.
PHILIP BREEDVELD

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. Th...
PHILIP DUSENBERRY

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
PHILIP SIDNEY

Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mahomet, ...
PHILIP SCHAFF

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 (which was rather late for me) -- Between the end of the Chatterley...
PHILIP LARKIN

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
PHILIP MASSINGER

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
PHILIP GUEDALLA

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
PHILIP JOHNSON

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
PHILIP LARKIN

Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve, And press with vigour on; A heavenly race demands thy ze...
PHILIP DODDRIDGE

Out, you impostors! Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill Is to make sound men sick...
PHILIP MASSINGER

Quality has to be caused, not controlled.
PHILIP CROSBY

For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
PHILIP MASSINGER

Ill news, madam, Are swallow-winged, but what's good Walks on crutches.
PHILIP MASSINGER

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, ...
PHILIP LARKIN

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came t...
PHILIP PULLMAN

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is for...
PHILIP ROTH

'Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever.
PHILIP PULLMAN

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have...
PHILIP ADAMS

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
PHILIP GUEDALLA

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partl...
PHILIP SIDNEY

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish an...
PHILIP PULLMAN

My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a centu...
PHILIP ROTH

More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, ...
PHILIP HAMMOND

Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO

I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, s...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form...
PHILIP SCHAFF

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
PHILIP WYLIE

Academic success depends on research and publications.
PHILIP ZIMBARDO

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
PHILIP GREEN

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behin...
PHILIP GREEN

We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enem...
PHILIP HAMMOND

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
PRINCE PHILIP

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.
PHILIP KEARNY

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it i...
PHILIP YANCEY

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail ...
PHILIP GREEN

I think I pick more winners than losers.
PHILIP GREEN

Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who b...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO

We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.
PRINCE PHILIP

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
PRINCE PHILIP

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
PRINCE PHILIP

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
PRINCE PHILIP

Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, s...
PHILIP YANCEY

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
PHILIP SIDNEY

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
PHILIP MASSINGER

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the crea...
PHILIP YANCEY

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that yo...
PHILIP TREACY

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as on...
PHILIP GUEDALLA

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, e...
PHILIP JOHNSON

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' ...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressu...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO

I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.
PHILIP KERR

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
PHILIP SCHAFF

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
PHILIP YANCEY

Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so i...
PHILIP YANCEY

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poem...
PHILIP LARKIN

I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'C...
PHILIP KERR

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of t...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO

Don’t come back when you realize that I’m rare
GENEREUX PHILIP

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and ...
PHILIP PULLMAN

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.
PHILIP ROTH

I don't play head games... I come from a family that could easily be called Generous to a fault.
GENEREUX PHILIP

Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the i...
PHILIP REEVE

Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands
Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken,
Hidde...
PHILIP LARKIN

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so t...
PHILIP JOHNSON

America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.
PHILIP TREACY

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.
PHILIP JOHNSON

A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.
PHILIP TREACY

You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of G...
PHILIP YANCEY

Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religi...
PHILIP REEVE

Fake is the new real,You gotta keep a lot a shit to yourself.
GENEREUX PHILIP

My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this littl...
PHILIP TREACY

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain poi...
PHILIP JOHNSON

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world ...
PHILIP SCHULTZ

Overthinking is parasitic. It’s viral. It’s deadly, even. Letting yourself fall victim to overth...
GENEREUX PHILIP

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to ...
PHILIP PULLMAN

I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it,...
PHILIP PULLMAN

In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Chris...
PHILIP YANCEY

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely th...
PHILIP JOHNSON

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... t...
PHILIP SIDNEY

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
PHILIP MASSINGER

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with w...
PHILIP ROTH

The real challenge of being a flight attendant is getting people out. The training requires that the...
PHILIP GREENSPUN

My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York ...
PHILIP MORRISON

I know it sounds strange to say, but the very technologies that have made traveling easier for most ...
PHILIP SCHULTZ

Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or ...
PHILIP HAMMOND

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.
PHILIP SCHAFF

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
PHILIP MASSINGER

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good ...
PHILIP JOHNSON

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.
PHILIP JOHNSON

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial societ...
PHILIP GUSTON

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their ...
PHILIP KAUFMAN

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, ...
PHILIP GIBBS

I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before ...
PHILIP TREACY

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
PRINCE PHILIP

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
PHILIP JOHNSON

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on th...
PHILIP GIBBS

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
PHILIP JOHNSON

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwar...
PHILIP PULLMAN

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your...
PHILIP TREACY

Shopping can be a nightmare - first finding something to wear and then finding something to go with ...
PHILIP TREACY

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying t...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO

Historically, Heathrow has been something of a joke, outweighed by its excellent connections. We hav...
PHILIP HAMMOND

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some ...
PHILIP PULLMAN

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

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