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Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
James Clerk Maxwell
Conscious ignorance
Prelude
Real advance
Science
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I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.
James Clerk Maxwell
Have looked
Philosophical systems
God
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In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.
James Clerk Maxwell
Science
Some interest
Great discoverers
Lives
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... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.
James Clerk Maxwell
Great
Physical constants
Approximately estimated
Men
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I'm not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I'm not sure we're built that way.
Hugh Grant
Great believer
Marriages
Institution
Relationships
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Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.
Hugh Grant
Courage
Soldiers
Fighting
People living
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I think marriage is only necessary if you've got children. It's quite nice for them.
Hugh Grant
Think marriage
Necessary
Got children
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I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy.
Hugh Grant
Look
At life
Happy relationships
Vast majority
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I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.
Hugh Grant
My hand
Heart
Relationship
Natural state
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I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.
Hugh Grant
Much point
Emotional film
People
Better
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But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.
Hugh Grant
Celebrity
No longer
The pursuer
Disappointment
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For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.
Hugh Grant
New technology
Controversy
Fear associated
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A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.
Hugh Grant
Free press
Cornerstone
Democracy
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I just don't believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I've based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It's something that I've always exploited - with good results.
Hugh Grant
Don't believe
Love
First sight
Career
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If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.
Hugh Grant
Smothering parent
Child
Equal dose
Self esteem
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For a group to be great, both good governance and excellent execution are required. It’s not one or the other.â€
Koos Bekker
Group
Great
Good governance
Excellent
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Entrepreneurship is a little bit like farming when you start you do everything, you make a team, you do the Photostats machine and as the business grows, it diversifies but certainly, the improvisation of a farm is extremely useful in business.
Koos Bekker
Entrepreneurship
Farming
Do everything
Team
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In business, one should never take anything for granted. Your fortune can change in five minutes.
Koos Bekker
In business
Never take
Anything
Granted
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The pace of technological change is still accelerating. Innovation never stops.
Koos Bekker
The pace
Technological change
Innovation
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Leaders have an innate belief that they can find a way. They have a positive disposition and, therefore, invariably make better decision.
Adrian Gore
Leaders
Innate belief
A way
Positive disposition
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Dreams are not only about money, but also about leaving a legacy and what you want to achieve in life.
Adrian Gore
Dreams
About money
Leaving
Legacy
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The political emancipation is in the majority of the people but the economic power is not in the majority…
Bridgette Radebe
Political emancipation
Economic power
The majority
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Bridgette Radebe
Want loads
Money
Give out
Never seen
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The biggest lesson I’ve learned is how important it is to have a mentor when you start your business. There is knowledge I would not have had access to if it weren’t for my mentors.
Bridgette Radebe
Bigest lesson
Important
Mentor
Start
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I have a new theory in life… what others may think of me is truly none of my business.
Bridgette Radebe
New theory
In life
May think
My business
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Terry Goodkind
Road
Easy
Going
Wrong way
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
Dambisa Moyo
Encompassing
Corrup
Organizations
Flounder
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Dambisa Moyo
Economist
Political
Scientist
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The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.
Dambisa Moyo
Engaging
World
Trade
Regions
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
Dambisa Moyo
Distressing
Aid
Leaders
Taxation
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You were beautiful before they told you that you were and you will be beautiful long after they stop
Regina Daniels
Beautiful
Told you
Stop
Long after
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Botswana is a poor country and at present is unable to stand on its own feet and develop its recourses without assistance from its friends
Seretse Khama
Poor country
Botswana
Feet
Develop
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I think that the trouble we now face in the world is caused mainly by the refusal to try and see another man’s point of view, to try and persuade by example - and the refusal to meet a rather passionate desire to impose your own will upon others, either by force or other means
Seretse Khama
Truoble
I think
World
Passionate
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We should write our history books to prove that we did have a past and that it was just as worth writing and learning about as any others. We must do this for the simple reason that a nation and a people without a past is a people without a soul.
Seretse Khama
Write
History book
Nation
Past
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Unity in Botswana, will not be achieved by legislation, but by consultation and consensus. Our national unity will be stronger if it remains based, as it is now, on diversity, mutual tolerance and consensus.
Seretse Khama
Unity
Botswana
Legislation
Consensus
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Democracy, like a little plant, does not grow or develop on its own. It must be nursed and nurtured if it is to grow and flourish. It must be believed in and practiced if it is to be appreciated. And it must be fought for and defended if it is to survive.
Seretse Khama
Democracy
Little plant
Develop
Grow
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Human dignity, like justice and freedom, is the common heritage of all men. It is indivisible. If these universal truths had been accepted by those who have set themselves the cause of denigration the world would have been saved from the racial animosities and degradations which now threaten the very survival of mankind
Seretse Khama
Human
Dignity
Freedom
Common Heritage
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…We are who we are through our connections and the people around us.
Sahle-Work Zewde
We are
Connections
People
Around us
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Leadership is an attitude and starts with paying attention to your environment and having a sense of responsibility. You can nurture this wherever you are.
Sahle-Work Zewde
Leadership
An attitude
Paying attention
Environment
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If the current change in Ethiopia is headed equally by both men and women, it can sustain its momentum and realise a prosperous Ethiopia free of religious, ethnic and gender discrimination.
Sahle-Work Zewde
Current charge
Headed equally
Its
Momentum
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When there is no peace in the country, mothers will be frustrated. Therefore, we need to work on peace for the sake of our mothers.
Sahle-Work Zewde
No peace
Mothers
Be frustrated
Work on
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Integrity is better capital than money. You can accumulate it just like money, and you can use it just like money, but it goes further, and is enduring.
Strive Masiyiwa
Integrity
Better capital
Accumulate
Like money
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A vision on its own is not enough. Hard work and dedication is required to make that vision a reality.
Strive Masiyiwa
Vision
Hard work
Dedication
Reality
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Strive Masiyiwa
Find opportunities
Looking
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Attitude determines your altitude, if you have a bad attitude, even if you are way up there, you will come crashing down, and if you are still trying to take off, a bad attitude, will keep you on the ground, revving your engines but going nowhere.
Strive Masiyiwa
Attitude
Determines
Altitude
Bad
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If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons
Strive Masiyiwa
Think business
Well managed
Sport team
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Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation.
Strive Masiyiwa
Farmer
Builder
Opportunity
Little innovation
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The worst financial decision you can ever make in your life, is to steal something. The second is like it, and that is to cheat someone. Even, if it would appear that you were never brought to account for it.
Strive Masiyiwa
Worst
Financial decision
Your life
Steal
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If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition.
Strive Masiyiwa
Working
Running
Business
Money
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I know no better way to show true patriotism and love for one's country, than investing to create wealth and employment.
Strive Masiyiwa
Better way
True patriotism
One's country
Create wealth
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