Quotes by South African Authors - Page 8

A man’s bank balance is the new penis size.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Procrastination threatens critics’ livelihood.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Critiquing a doer isn’t doing.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Whenever a journalist wrote an article about him that was critical in nature... he would invite them to a meal and at first they assumed they were in trouble for being critical of him. But they soon learned after arrival at his house for a meal that he merely wanted to engage with them to get an understanding of they criticism... Madiba didn't attempt to change their minds. He would have an informed opinion after having engaged with them, and even though he occasionally changed an opinion by offering correct information, they never parted feeling hostile.
Zelda la Grange
The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect.
Unarine Ramaru
Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.
Elon Musk
... what it really was like to live a life determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers' days are determined by the struggle against thirst and those of dwellers amid snow and ice by the struggle against the numbing of cold.
Nadine Gordimer
The happiest of endings begin with a struggle so embrace yours
Nomzamo Nhlumayo
Some boys feel they are like girls,They are gentle, and like their hair in curls.
Christina Engela
But some boys like boys more -And some girls make other girls hearts soar!
Christina Engela
Some girls feel they are like boys, They play rough, they like a lot of noise.
Christina Engela
REAL Entrepreneurs will be the one's who change the world for the better.Governments must become PUBLIC servants to create the best context and mindsets for people to succeed. We need to ReThink Entrepreneurial success and the role of Public Service in supporting that... or we, and our children, will pay the ultimate price.
Tony Dovale
IF your mindset does not include a personal life plan, your Life Success Project can NEVER have any chance of real success.
Tony Dovale
Most success oriented mindsets miss out on people becoming more valuable.
Tony Dovale
We now live in a time when PEOPLE and profits must become equally valuable in the corporate leaders Mindset.Rethink your Leadership Culture to become a conscious, high performance organisation
Tony Dovale
People who have wellbeing and feel fulfilled, need far less than people who feel unfulfilled, who always seem to need more." By Rethinking Your Mindset you can create SWIFT sustainable success.
Tony Dovale
Entrepreneurs don't fail because they want to, they fail because they don't have the right MINDSET to really succeed in a sustainable manner.
Tony Dovale
Your mindset controls every result in your life... Mindset matters most if you are above the ground and breathing
Tony Dovale
If you are not successful yet, the mindset that got you to where you are today, Cannot get you to where you dream to be tomorrow!You need to Rethink Your Mindset to Ensure Success.
Tony Dovale
To create extraordinary results, you must first have or ReThink an extraordinary Mindset to start.
Tony Dovale
If it is to BE.. it's up to ME. Time for SWIFT ACTION! id your best mindset reset.
Tony Dovale
Teams Triumph When Today's Tribe Leaders Transform Their Mindset.
Tony Dovale
For long-term true success we mush rethink and change our mindset from only valuing "happiness" to include Well-being as the foundation.
Tony Dovale
Success Requires a Mindset that sparks and sustains focused SWIFT ACTION.
Tony Dovale
Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas
Tony Dovale
Mindset & context are the 2 main ingredients entrepreneurs and leaders must use for creating sustainable real success
Tony Dovale
What good is praying in public if you as an individual do not follow The Teachings of GOD'S Prophets in The Holy Bible ? Repent !
Errol Anthony Smythe
Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There are some lessons you can never find in a classroom, hence you need to learn from every person and every situation that you encounter.
Gift Gugu Mona
They run, they touch, they learn, they play, They listen, they work hard at growing all day.
Christina Engela
As a kid I understood that people were different colors, but in my head white and black and brown were like types of chocolate. Dad was the white chocolate, mom was the dark chocolate, and I was the milk chocolate. But we were all just chocolate. I didn’t know any of it had anything to do with “race.” I didn't know what race was. My mother never referred to my dad as white or to me as mixed. So when the other kids in Soweto called me "white", even though I was light brown, I just thought that they had their colors mixed up, like they hadn't learned them properly. "Ah, yes, my friend. You've confused aqua with turquoise. I can see how you made that mistake. You're not the first.
Trevor Noah
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Nelson Mandela
An element of wisdom is knowing that life experiences are blood brothers with climate change, whether you have the resources to detect weather changes, it can still surprise you anytime.
Unarine Ramaru
Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! It calls out to love in an attempt to save myself. I don’t want to be one of those people who live their lives with boils, septic wounds and broken bones bleeding inside.
Phindiwe Nkosi
To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If we really exist merely to fulfill God’s plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.
Tarryn Fisher
Tell me a truth, Senna.""I don't know how," I breath."Then tell me a lie.""I don't love you," I say. I sink beneath the weight of it all.Isaac stirs behind me, and then he is leaning over me, his elbows on either side of my head."The truth is for the mind," he says. "Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying.
Tarryn Fisher
Poets must be grounded in the education of the arts, drama, history, mysticism, esotericism, and philosophy. To gain knowledge and become learned of the above is easy - read. Poets should apply this knowledge to their work, so a poet will advance to the next level, to their next phase of their emotional, psychological and spiritual development, growing in years in a short space of time, in hours or months if he or she is an avid reader. This knowledge will birth work that is not meretricious but of noble parentage.
Abigail George
When you surround yourself with dramatic people, your life will be full of drama.
Gugu Mona
So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks."Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?""I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.
Lauren Beukes
This could be addictive.
Kevin Pietersen
Cruelty links all three primitives [pleasure, pain, and desire]: Spinoza defines it as the desire to inflict pain on someone we love or pity. Financial speaking, cruelty is analogous to a convertible bond whose debt and equity depend on three economic underliers: the stock price, the level of interest rates, and the credit worthiness of the company's debt.
Emanuel Derman
So often when people hear about the suffering in our world, they feel guilty, but rarely does guilt actually motivate action like empathy or compassion. Guilt paralyzes and causes us to deny and avoid what makes us feel guilty. The goal is to replace our guilt with generosity. We all have a natural desire to help and to care, and we simply need to allow ourselves to give from our love without self-reproach. We each must do what we can. This is all that God asks of us." - , God Has a Dream, p. 87-88
Desmond Tutu
For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.
Christiaan Barnard
What could be more intimate than dying with someone?
Sarah Lotz
A silence followed, while the two men contemplated dying for love.
Damon Galgut
It's not the dying but the manner of it.
Wilbur Smith
The moment you in a relationship, know that every action you take, carries your partner's dignity along with yours.
Unarine Ramaru
Oh, this time I was doing the gossiping. You should really dismiss me for disloyalty, not to mention the disrespect I'm showing right now by talking to you like this.
Jayne Bauling
The thing about fires most people don’t realise is the noise. It’s deafening so even if you shout, you can’t be heard three feet away. You can never quite get used to the fury of it, it’s like a mighty roar of anger that just keeps going. I suppose flame is beautiful, the way it leaps into the air like it’s free to do what it wants. Other elements are also free and I guess the sea can be pretty awesome, wind too, and lightning, but fire has a mind and a determination. You don’t see it as a blind raging thing, which I suppose it is, but something that attacks and thinks and changes tactics. It has a malevolence that uses surprise, dirty tricks, cunning. You get to think of it as someone, not something, and it’s someone you have to beat, but right from the start you don’t like your chances because it’s so big and unpredictable and can do so much harm.
Bryce Courtenay
Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise.
Christina Engela
Damage report, sir?” Skotchdopole asked, climbing off his console into his seat.“To hell with that!” he roared, this was no accidental side-effect of arriving – it was clear they were under attack by hostile aliens. “Fire! Shoot the crap outta them!
Christina Engela