Is it better to be useful than successful?
Lailah Gifty Akita.
“Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity.”
“Guide us in the path of peace, O Lord!”
“Work while you have strength.”
“Do all the work you can while you still have strength.”
“Do all the work you can, while there is grace of strength.”
“Thank God for the strength to work.”
“You demand excellence and excellence demands your every move better”
“A smile is a light within you being turned on, it can illuminate the path for you and others.”
“You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come aliv...”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”
“The road to success is always under construction”
“Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.”
“An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the succes...”
“People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.”