“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.” ThinkingKnowsWayFeelsShouldWritingYearsWellsMeanLongStillsBookDifferentDoneBigsAgeTodaySchoolJobsNextLiteratureNamesNationsCommunityMy OwnEnvironmentFiveGenerationsYears AgoHonestlyFive YearsLong WayNext GenerationCatchingRelevanceOur CommunityNigeriaLong Way To Go Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe
“I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.” PeopleThinkingYearsVoiceTermSeeingSixYears AgoAddFinancialEightHonestlyMainstreamInquiryCritiqueDissidentsFinancial System Author:Eliot Spitzer
“I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.” YearsDoorsYears AgoHonestlyI've LearnedShrinksKnocking Author:Ariel Pink
“I honestly think I am a better player than I was four years ago, when I was No. 1 in the world.” ThinkingWorldYearsFourPlayerYears AgoHonestlyFour Years Author:Carlos Moya
“Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there's no point in trying to impress people with my cleverness when I can just try to write honestly about what matters most to me.” PeopleWritingTryingYearsFirstsSaidI CanImportantMatterStoriesReadingTruth IsUnderstoodFirst TimeYears AgoHonestlyInterviewsWhat MattersImpressFoxesNo PointClevernessNo Point In Trying Author:Molly Antopol
“I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns is obviously much different than how another student learns and so I've had to figure out how to get through to people honestly without hurting their feelings - which is no easy task just in the scope of being a human being, much less in the classroom, but which is something that is more important to me now than it was when I was 30 - and to show them a path to improving.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansImportantDifferentPhilosophyShowsFeelingsEasyHurtHuman BeingsPathTeachingFiguresStudentsYears AgoTasksHonestlyI've LearnedClassroomImprovingScopeEasy Tasks Author:Tod Goldberg
“I woke up early one morning a couple of years ago and felt the tenderness of my being alone, the bitter sweetness of it. It has many colors, being alone. I walked out into my living room and I can say honestly that everything was pouring with life - the red sofa, the chairs with their patterns of roses, even the coffee table with its scattering of books. Everything was alive with the presence of being. Seeing the world though those eyes, I realized that I could never really be alone.” WorldYearsI CanBookEyeFeltRoomsMorningAliveSeeingColorCoupleRedYears AgoTablesRosePatternsCoffeeI RealizedHonestlyBitterChairsTendernessSweetnessLiving RoomPouringUp EarlySeeing The WorldSofas Author:Roger Housden
“I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.” PeopleMenWantYearsMeanDifferentCountryClearViolenceConflictHundredMen And WomenYears AgoHonestlyAfghan Author:Hillary Clinton
“The question is, do we have a shadow government? And, if we do, who are those intelligent minority that is -- that is guiding us through? And where are they guiding us to? If you skip past all of the puppets and the strings, if you stop looking at the puppets themselves, you have to see who's behind the puppets. Who is choosing the puppets and the players? Who's the puppet master? George Soros.” IfsYearsTwoGovernmentPastBehindsPlayerMastersTheoryShadowYears AgoCriticismIntelligentHonestlyMinoritiesTwo YearsStringsConspiracyPuppetsSkipConspiracy TheorySelf CriticismTwo Years AgoPuppet Master Author:Glenn Beck