Michael Bassey Johnson Quotes - Page 4

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.
Michael Bassey Johnson
99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Pursue money while you're alive, so that poverty will not pursue you when you're old.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.
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An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you refuse to deal with time today, time will deal with you tomorrow.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If blood can produce money through rituals or the so-called human sacrifice, then it is the basis on which we live, so it is very essential to save and protect it from the fiendish eyes of blood sucking predators.
Michael Bassey Johnson
As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:~people applaud you incessantly.~love you more than their parents.~give you a daily bread.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Your mental problem becomes a solution when it can be used to solve problems.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Act as if you don't know me, and i will make it seem as though you don't exist.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis.
Michael Bassey Johnson
My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great men with bushy hairs?". He replied, "education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane.
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Everyday is a mystery
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Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.
Michael Bassey Johnson
There are people who feel they should be with you, but something is preventing them from coming close. Please can you just lower the frequency of your stern looking face and smile...and they will make you their habit.
Michael Bassey Johnson
It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Keep Inspiring everyday, because when you retire, you will lose desire, become tired, and expire.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You may be a person I admire, but you can't be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone's favourite, but you are someone's favourite whether you like them or not.
Michael Bassey Johnson
These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at lines difficult to decipher, while my mates are drinking with glee.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Though some may see their shortcomings as the greatest evil from the pit of hell, while some throw invectives at God for bringing them into a cruel, problematic world. These shortcomings are transient, the greatest evil does its work and needs no interrogation, their invectives are just a waste of time, and the world is the most sweetest to those with a functional taste buds.
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So many had burned opportunities in the name of postponement, believing that another opportunity will arise. They fail to seize the spur of the moment, without thinking that maybe, that could be their last chance to actualize their long nurtured dreams. Achieving your heart desires in this century requires your alertness, diligence, and overcoming the hindrances that procrastination brings.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it", without any confidence and prove.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.
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Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.
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Don't be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars.
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Laziness bears the fruit of hunger and crimes, and those who choose the right path are those willing to pay the price
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The worst thing about being concise with people is the game of puzzle you've made them play.
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Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.
Michael Bassey Johnson
To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.
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Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I can see better when i close my eyes; don't make much ado, that's my latest style of view.
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People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you're poor. Look! Everybody's poor, i discovered it when i realized that its not everything that President Barrack Obama has.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you'll trek into heaven like a king.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn't contribute to either, the good or evil.
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A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.
Michael Bassey Johnson
It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When you commit a crime to upgrade yourself, your sin becomes a blessing, but your blessing kills you before your time.
Michael Bassey Johnson
It was your covenant with the devil to exchange your soul for money and fame, so i won't be sorry for your damn f***ing soul, and the devil gat no time to refund what you had already sell, demons don't understand the meaning of sympathy, you should know that already, so, go make some dollar bill in hell, and come back and give me some.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The only reason i love the courage of these individuals is that they take their family members as astray chicks, and the reason i don't want to belong to this category is because those chicks are far more important to me than trivial wealth and fame.
Michael Bassey Johnson