Quotes by Ethiopian Authors

Your ability to discern key people in your life and organization before you bring them in saves you lots of time, trouble, and regrets... Watch out!!!
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Inside the front flap of the book were handwritten names of the dozen or so people who had checked the book out before Naomi. Instead of writing her name, Naomi had a thin paper receipt with the due date printed on it. She could never possess this book the way those other people had. It was one of those uselessly nostalgic and sentimental thoughts that serve only our own romantic ideals, but I couldn't help believing it was true nonetheless. I took a pencil out from behind the register and handed it to her.
Dinaw Mengestu
When we come in contact with our true self, we stop trying to be someone else. We fall in love with it and embrace it with all its flaws :-)
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There must not be any single person in the world whom you should allow to rent a portion of your heart. Don't hold grudge. Forgive and move on...
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Don't waste your time to appease people who have already stumbled in you because of what you stand for. Respect their decision & move on...
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Every day in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.
Abe Gubegna
If you fail to treat the current time you have wisely and with care, it’ll judge you tomorrow harshly since it came to you but you mistreated and abused it.
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In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.
Dinaw Mengestu
Rather than micro-managing to resolve every problem, create the right atmosphere, process, and system that facilitate effective problem solving.
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When you stop worrying about your shortcomings, you deny your enemies, rivals, and/or competitors lethal weapons they may use to attack and defeat you.
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No one can express who you are and what you stand for more than you do. Don't leave that to chance or others. If you do so, the likelihood of other people misgauging you is high. Take charge!
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We don't need to win all the time. We should embrace losing. Losing weight, bad employees, disloyal friends...These aren't bad things @ all!
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Your true conviction is tested not when everything goes your way but rather when things go wrong...
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Who knows, you may be that close. You could be uncovering a blind spot or two away to take your career to the next height...
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Others may not understand your joy and contentment because of your certainty about who you are and why you exist. Don't waste your time to explain.
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The discovery of your purpose (the reason for your existence) generates the passion and dedication it takes to pursue and fulfill it...
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Blaming our past for not taking action to change our destiny for good is taken from a weak man’s playbook...
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Dream big, envision a glorious destiny, write your own story, and work each day to arrive @ that destiny. You're able!
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Leading a grateful life should be more than a feeling and a habit. It should be our core value, which we should respect no matter what.
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Many things might have caused pain this year. The good thing is that we would not have felt them if we weren't alive. Thankful that I'm alive!
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Enjoy every blessing you can get from ever setback and quickly move on. Don't dwell too much on a setback. Don't miss out other blessings ahead...
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When you feel like you're crazy because you think differently than the people around you, God sends a confirmation that you've not lost it.
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It never stops to amaze me how God sends the right people at the right stage of your life as a confirmation to let you know that you're not crazy.
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Life is full of games. Be a proactive player. Most importantly, know who is throwing at you, what and why. When you do, life becomes fun...
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Every new self-discovery leads you to more wholeness, opens your heart, makes you humble, and a better person to serve and love others.
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Every new self-discovery leads you to more wholeness, opens your heart, makes you humble, and a better person to serve and love others." Page 8
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It may be necessary to change our brand, catch phrases, strategy, design, etc. once in awhile. It may give us competitive advantages. But a change that demands the change of the SOUL of who we're doesn't deserve to be entertained.
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You can't train people loyalty. A person with loyalty is a great asset than a smart but disloyal one...
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If I have to choose between a person who has everything but loyalty and another who has nothing but loyalty, I go for the latter. Go loyal!
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The world won't be loyal and burden itself to those who are having one skill and talent any longer. Make yourself useful and indispensable...
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Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...
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Gravity keeps your body down from flying high. On the other hand, nothing can keep you down from outperforming yourself and from continually growing to become excellent.
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You can't beat your own expectations. The latter set the tone, and shape who you've become, and who you would end up becoming...
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Conflict occurs everywhere except in the cemetery. Everyone experiences conflict except the dead. Thankful for being alive...
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The tragedy of unfulfilling life is that you're already dead but no one pronounced you dead...
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A winning mindset can transform an underdog into a champion, conqueror, and achiever. You’re a mindset away from winning your battles!
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Do you want to know my mindset? I play whether I win or lose if I believe in the play. All in! You've to kill me. I won't tap out :-) lol
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You have already manifested what you know. What you have known thus far could only take you this far. If you’re not happy and satisfied where you are in life, your career, and business, go to the next level. Unfortunately, you cannot go to the next height without discovering what you haven’t known.
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You live in this world once. Let your true and authentic YOU get unleashed. The world is desperately waiting your unique brand unchained.
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Here is a paradox: People who think imperfect are closer to perfection than their counterparts who claim that they're perfect or closer...
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Don't go for knockout in one punch, if your desire is to stay longer in the fight and thrive; go for outlasting them. Take the higher road.
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No one is perfect. We all have weaknesses and limitations. Some can't be fixed. But, at least, a leader shouldn't find herself blindsided...
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The best revenge to get on your distractors is taking the high road. Avoid playing their game, following their murky rules.
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The worst weapon of your enemy, rival, competitor, distractor is creating self-doubt in you and/or your team. They cannot win you without first destroying your self-worth.
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Your haters may stage fake games that they know you cannot win so that you may fail and put that blame on you and in turn doubt yourself.
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Carefully guard your true self. Let no mistake or error you commit create doubt in you and who you truly are.
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You're unstoppable not because you're stronger than your challenges/competitors. It's because you're consistent. You won’t quit easily!!!
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When you violate the law of growth, your influence winds down, your progress gets arrested, and many more negative consequences...
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Life without making progress is dead. What is life if you don't embrace new truths that scare you, meet people who intimidate you, and so on.
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Some people have the innate ability to cheat artfully during dating, interview... Once they're in, they completely change and become different that they leave you wonder whether you have ever met them before.
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If one door closes, another opens. As far as you're growing and updating yourself, the world craves to have a piece of you.
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For months beforehand, I fielded calls from British media. A couple of the reporters asked me to name some British chefs who had inspired me. I mentioned the Roux brothers, Albert and Michel, and I named Marco Pierre White, not as much for his food as for how—by virtue of becoming an apron-wearing rock-star bad boy—he had broken the mold of whom a chef could be, which was something I could relate to. I got to London to find the Lanesborough dining room packed each night, a general excitement shared by everyone involved, and incredibly posh digs from which I could step out each morning into Hyde Park and take a good long run around Buckingham Palace. On my second day, I was cooking when a phone call came into the kitchen. The executive chef answered and, with a puzzled look, handed me the receiver. Trouble at Aquavit, I figured.I put the phone up to my ear, expecting to hear Håkan’s familiar “Hej, Marcus.” Instead, there was screaming. “How the fuck can you come to my fucking city and think you are going to be able to cook without even fucking referring to me?” This went on for what seemed like five minutes; I was too stunned to hang up. “I’m going to make sure you have a fucking miserable time here. This is my city, you hear? Good luck, you fucking black bastard.” And then he hung up.I had cooked with Gordon Ramsay once, a couple of years earlier, when we did a promotion with Charlie Trotter in Chicago. There were a handful of chefs there, including Daniel Boulud and Ferran Adrià, and Gordon was rude and obnoxious to all of them. As a group we were interviewed by the Chicago newspaper; Gordon interrupted everyone who tried to answer a question, craving the limelight. I was almost embarrassed for him. So when I was giving interviews in the lead-up to the Lanesborough event, and was asked who inspired me, I thought the best way to handle it was to say nothing about him at all. Nothing good, nothing bad. I guess he was offended at being left out. To be honest, though, only one phrase in his juvenile tirade unsettled me: when he called me a black bastard. Actually, I didn’t give a fuck about the bastard part. But the black part pissed me off.
Marcus Samuelsson
Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past... It's gone! Learn from it and move on...
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You're great. You don't need to be sorry for being who you're. You're a miracle. You're a wonder in this generation. Unchain your true self!
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If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil in vain...
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If you've seen a clear & worthy vision, you get up every morning to pursue your vision even if you were knocked down the previous day...
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You cannot withstand continual setbacks unless you've seen a worthwhile vision...
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Serving others is the surest and practical way of channeling your love. There is no love through lip service. If you love humanity, serve…
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When you put yourself and your interest ahead of the people you intend to serve, it doesn't take long to find out that it's a recipe for disappointment.
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Serving in the best country in the world demands becoming the best in what you do. To become the best, learn from & hangout with the best...
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