21 December 2015

Quotes to Remember

"Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a 3 Dimensional World into a 2 Dimensional Plane...
"Every Artist has Thousands of bad Drawings in them and the only Way to get rid of them is to draw them out...
"There is absolutely no Inevitability as long as there is Willingness to think...
"Animation isn't the Illusion of Life, it's Life... "An Animator is an Actor with a Pencil...
"If you start with Character, you probably will end up with good Drawings..." - CHUCK JONES

"Art is in-born...
"Get interested in our Ugandan Culture... Heritage...
"When you do the Business well, Money will follow...
"An Artist is a Human influenced by Events in his Environment...
"Explain Science versus Art..." - Professor FRANCIS XAVIER NNAGGENDA, Sculptor/ Educationist


“GOD has given us (the Lugbara People) Millet, it makes us strong so that we work. If you do not work, you will die. Churchill is the Greatest Man in British History because he won the War but after Officework, he would go home, take off his shirt and perform Home Chores, Tasks like Weeding…

“Lugbara Culture teaches you to respect your Parents (Elders), not to kill or murder, not to commit Adultery, not to steal or rob, not to lie and not to covet or desire your Neighbour’s Property…

“I am a Teacher by choice…” - THE THIRD LUGBARA AGOFE JASON AVUTIA (Born 1926 Departed 2023)

"Suffering is good... Problems are not a Curse, but Lessons..." - JOSEPH DRADRIA

"Ayi MUKAMA KATONDA, nkomyewo joli onyambe [Translated from Luganda: Oh LORD GOD, I've come back where YOU are so that YOU help me]..." - BEBE COOL (Kanyimbe)

"Ekikumi kyo, kilye [Translated from Luganda: Your 100 UgX, eat it]..." - BOBI WINE (Kikomando)

"Tell me a Story and make me care..." - STAN LEE

"Dreams are personal Events..." - LEE STROBEL 


"I was lucky enough to play with Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo (da Lima), Luis Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo. But Messi is the Best I have ever seen..." - RAUL GONZALEZ


"You have to fight for what you want in Life...
" Sometimes you have to accept: You can't win all the Time...
"I always try to get better every Day..." - LIONEL MESSI 

"Practise..." - RAY ALLEN

"Train..." - Coach LEO ADRAA

"Depression can have many Symptoms: A low Mood, Loss of Interest in Things you normally enjoy, Changes in Appetite, feeling worthless or excessively guilty, sleeping either too much or too little, poor Concentration, Restlessness or Slowness, Loss of Energy or recurrant Thoughts of #SUICIDE. If you have at least five of those Symptoms, according to Psychiatric Guidelines, you qualify for a Diagnosis of Depression..." - HELEN M. FARRELL 


"Nothing is missing..." - NADIA KHALIL

"When I started a Church, I wanted to have a Church that wrote Songs, that influenced the Way People worship..." - BRIAN HOUSTON (Hillsong)


"When I line up, am in the Tunnel; I close out everything..." - MO FARAH

"Just praise G-O-D...
"This World is all about Branding and Marketing (Youth Connekt Africa Summit '17)..." - AKON 

"Art is the only serious Thing in the World. And the Artist is the only Person who is never serious..." - OSCAR WILDE

"Getting Money is simple, keeping it is the Problem..." - HAMIS KIGGUNDU

"...The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the Name of the LORD!" - JOB 1:21 

"Time is an Illusion...
"I do not believe there is a single Individual that does not possess this same Ability I have if they would only be willing to pay the Price of Detachment from Self-interest that it takes to develop those Abilities...
"The Future is malleable..." - EDGAR CAYCE 


"Do not cry over spilt Milk..." - JAMES DRAMANI [2003]

"How is your good Life?
"If others can make it, then you can also make it..." - ELIZABETH NDEZO DRAMANI [2003]

"E=MC2...
"Why Socialism...
"All I need are GOD's Thoughts; the Rest are just Details...
"Imagination is more important than Knowledge..." - ALBERT EINSTEIN

"Every Frame and every Scene has to have an Intention...
“It begins with a Vision…” – MIRA NAIR, Founder of Maisha Filmlab since 2005

"Keep Time..." - MUSARAIT KASHMIRI

"It's always rewarding to see an ambitious Design become Reality...
"When Women do succeed, the Press even the Industry Press spend far too much Time talking about how we dress, what Shoes we are wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for Women, especially when it's written by Women who really should know better..." - ZAHA HADID

"Avoid Dreamkillers..." - SHARPE COLE NIMUSIIMA

"If you have Talent, go develop it; work hard...
"Your Talent will speak for you...
"Be respectful of everyone...
"Be disciplined..." - IRENE NAMUBIRU 

"You can buy more Clothes, get more Friends, that doesn't change your Value! Whether you're wearing Gucci or Goodwill, whether it's Calvin Klein or Fruitoftheloom, your Value never changes..." - JOEL OSTEEN

"To belittle is to be little..." - ESTERI TEBANDEKE

"Prayer, Hardwork and Discipline..." - GOLDALYN KAKUYA TANGA (14 Year old Kenyan Albino who topped the KCPE Results in 2017)

"Everyone has Imagination; it comes in plenty of Ways. People have Ideas all the Time, but most of the Time they just have the Idea, they don't have the Willpower to sit down and actually work it out. I think Willpower and Discipline are major Factors in getting something done...
"You can learn a lot from Movies... instinctively...

"Everything you do more than once, you get better at it...
"Take in new inspirations...
"You should be the challenging bar for yourself... There's always going to be somebody who is better than you... IT is not a competition... You should have yourself as the standard of all things. You should be trying to be the best you can be for yourself... If you are constantly looking at who you are beating each week, how good you are in comparison to other people, you are treating Art like a High School match, a Beauty match..." - MARKO DJURDJEVIC


"Art is not a Cleverness Contest; it's not one's Capacity to be inventive. It is really an Honesty Contest, the Capacity to truly be that Thing that you are..." - RAN ORTNER


"GOD is good...
"Think beyond Borders of all kinds...
"Every Entrepreneur needs to "see" the Internet as "valuable Real Estate", in much the same Way you would see a Piece of Land for building something like a Hotel...

"Chin up and walk straight; who said you are a Nobody?! It is Time to think differently about who we are, and what we can accomplish...
"Do Market and Product Research! When I launched Kwesé TV, I promised to use it as a Case Study so you could see how we make Decisions based on Research..." - STRIVE MASIYIWA 


"Invest in Reputation first, then worry about Profit later...
"Great Companies are built on great Products...
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the Odds are not in your Favour..."  - ELON MUSK, Tesla Motors


"Love is Love..." - JONATHAN NKOSA [aka ZILLA]

"We should have Dreams..." - HUANG MING 

"Never be afraid to try something new; remember Amateurs built the Ark, Professionals built the Titanic..." - ONYA KOKAS

"There are only three Things that affect everyone: Clean Water, Energy (Electricity) and Health..." - MANOJ BHARGAVA

"Sex is not like Monopoly, it is not better with more People involved... Sex is not a Sport..." - JUDGE LAUREN LAKE (Paternity Court)

"I do not care that they stole my Idea...
"My Brain is only a Receiver. In the Universe, there is a Core from which we obtain Knowledge, Strength, Inspiration. I have not penetrated into the Secrets of this Core, but I know that it exists..." - NIKOLA TESLA

"Let's make some funny Pictures..." - TEX AVERY

"The Best Way to predict the Future is to create it..." - HERBERT WIGWE

"(A successful Artist) knows how to manage Risk. It's like dating a beautiful Girl who is not in your League..." - MAURICE KAWEEKWA, a thrilling Ugandan Visual Artist

"The only Way to do great Work is to love what you do...
"If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your Mind is..." - STEVE JOBS

"Even if Life hardens, GOD gave us Talents to simplify it..." - FRANCIS OTIM 

"You fight Capitalism with Socialism..." - ALI

"You know your Heritage, Roots and Culture; you have the Treasure that every Rasta [in the Carribean] is in search of..." - TSHAKA MAYANJA [aka Roots] 

"You can be happy, or you can be unhappy. It is just according to the Way you look at Things...
"Adults are only Kids grown up, anyway…
"If you live right, Things happen right…
"Why worry? If you have done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better…
"When we do Fantasy, we must not lose Sight of Reality…
"All our Dreams can come true if we have the Courage to pursue them…
"It's kind of Fun to do the Impossible...
"We keep moving forward, opening new Doors, and doing new Things, because we're curious and Curiosity keeps leading us down new Paths...
"Happiness is a State of Mind (Contentment)..." - WALT DISNEY

"Storytelling is Joke-telling..." - ANDREW STANTON, Director (Finding Nemo)

"Ideas come from everywhere. Don't think animated, think Idea..." - DAVE REYNOLDS, 
Writer (Finding Nemo)

"Do the Best you can and never stop..." - STEPHEN WILTSHIRE

"It's not that important to become a Millionaire; what you wanna do in Life is to fulfill your Dreams. 
"Money is not the Definition of Success; get involved in whatever interests you in Life and do it the Best Way you can. It may be that Money will be a Byproduct of that and you will put the Money to great use...
"Achieve Things you can be proud of and make a Difference...
"There's a thin dividing-Line between Success and Failure..." - RICHARD BRANSON

"Most People don't realise that you cannot be a Muslim if you don't believe in JESUS, may Peace be upon HIM... You cannot be called a true Believer if you don't love JESUS, may Peace be upon HIM and HIS mother, the Virgin Mary, may Peace be upon her... I am a Muslim and I love JESUS, may Peace be upon HIM!" - MUFTI ISMAIL MENK

"Have Fun...
"Get better... Figure it out..." - STEVE KERR


"I didn't fail the Test. I just found 100 Ways to do it wrong...
"The Doors of Wisdom are never shut...
"Imitate JESUS and Socrates...
"Hide not your Talents, they for use were made! What's a Sundial in the Shade..." - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

"Take the Evil out the People, they'll be acting right...
"It takes Skill to be real, Time to heal each other...
"I'm seeing nothing but my Dreams coming true..." - 2PAC

"No GOD, no Peace; know GOD, know Peace..." - BRITTNEY ELENA

"Football is an Art..." - ARSENE WENGER [Member of the British Empire]

"You don't need Assurance, only Endurance...
"Training is harder for me than Racing. 25 Laps around the Track is really the easy Part...
"You could do it, anyone could do it but the mental Part is the hard Part...
"There's no Magic, it's Pain, man, everyday...
"The Happiness you felt, you gave it so freely; they would never guess what got you there. To be precise, I mean the sleepless Nights, I mean the uphill Struggle to the Steepest Heights..." - Sir MO FARAH


"Aim at Success, not Perfection...
"Once you find Peace within, Life seems to be better..." - EMILY AMPAIRE (MUGYENYI)

"I dream all Day..." - STEVEN SPIELBERG

"My Sketchpad is not a Sword, it's my Friend..." - R.K. LAXMAN

"I reject that whole Point of View that Animation is a Children's Medium. The Way People talk about it is, well, hey, it's a good Thing I have Kids because now I get to see this. Well, hey, no Man! You can just go and see it..." - BRAD BIRD, Director (Iron Giant)

"The World is really about Relationships..." - PETE DOCTER

"A good Joke can do more to provide Thought than Hours of philosophical Discussion…" - ISSAC ASIMOV, Creator of I,Robot

"Quality is a good Business Plan…
"The Art challenges the Technology and the Technology inspires the Art...
"My Mother always said that being big in the Arts is such a noble Profession. And I will always cherish that..." - JOHN LASSETER

"There are two Parts to any Failure: there is the Event itself, with all its attendant Disappointment, Confusion and Shame and there is our Reaction to it. It is this second Part that we control..." - ED CATMULL, Co-Founder of Pixar Animation Studios 

"One Day you'll look back on your Life and appreciate your Struggle and have nothing but Gratitude for everything that happened along the Way...
"I still feel I can be better...
"Keep going, keep going...
"Never give up...
"The Love of your Dream is in your Heart..." - TOM BRADY, New England Patriots Champion Quarterback

"When you lose, the only Way out is to improve..." - PEP GUARDIOLA

"Too many Rules stifle Innovation…" - SERGEY BRIN, Co-founder of Google

"Don’t be evil…" - PAUL BUCHHEIT (Google Employee #23 who also suggested Gmail)

"I'm not sure if Amin did all the Evil he is accused of..." - MOSES ALI


"Jordan promotes a Winning Mentality for anyone in any Walk of Life... Jumpman forever..." - DRAKE (#WeAreJordan)


"Givers never lack..." - HARUN UMAR (Ghana)



"The Blessing of YAHWEH is what brings Riches, to this Hard Toil has nothing to add…" - PROVERBS 10:22

"You're fired...
"Since we have to think anyway, why not think BIG...
"We must think big and dream even BIGGER...
"Nothing beats the Bible...
"No Drugs, no Alcohol, no Cigarettes...
"You have to love what you do...
"We will be protected by GOD...
"Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done...
"Whether we are Black, Brown or White, we all bleed the same red Blood of Patriots...

"Keep the Momentum..." - DONALD TRUMP

"A good Picture is equivalent to a good Deed…” - VINCENT VAN GOGH (Letter 1890)

"Do all the Good you can..." - JOHN WESLEY, Founder of the Methodist Church

"My Friends, look to Christ..." - DWIGHT L. MOODY

"My History doesn't have to be my Destiny..." - JOYCE MEYER


“Who said you can’t live holy and be a Teenager? Who told you that… When you walk with the LORD for a long Time, you start to get that cool Swag about you, coz you understand that: It’s not about you…” – CECE WINANS
 
"I deny that Art can be taught, or in other Words, maintain that Art is completely individual…" - GUSTAVE COURBET (Letter to prospective Students 1861)

"Two Most Important Days in your Life are the Day you were born and the Day you find out why...
"You don't have to like me, 7.2 Million do...
"Your Gift is something you do your absolute Best with the Least Amount of Effort...
"I wanted to play Basketball but when I ran full Speed with the ball, I didn't have it...
"Haters validate you and prove that you are doing something. Isaiah 43:1-2 and 4. If you do not know how to handle Haters that come at a certain Angle, be still...
"If you move away from the Faith Street and doubt, pity yourself or think you are unworthy, GOD's Gift for you will pass you by. It will be returned to the Sender..." - STEVE HARVEY


"Take it easy...
"To get the Most out of Life you must be active, you must live and you must have the Courage to taste the Thrill of being young..." - FRIEDRICH ENGELS (1840)


"Every Child is an Artist. The Problem is how to remain an Artist once he grows up…
"Everything you can imagine is real…
"Art washes away from the Soul the Dust of everyday Life…
"Painting is just another way of keeping a Diary…" - PABLO PICASSO

"Practise what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know…" - REMBRANDT VAN RIJN

"Learn how to see! Realise that everything connects to everything...
"Learning never exhausts the Mind...
"Life without Love is no Life at all...
"Art is never finished, only abandoned...
"Where the Spirit does not work with the Hand, there is no Art...
"Despise me not, for I am not poor – Poor is he only who has Material Desires…" – LEONARDO DA VINCI

"I've missed more than 9000 Shots in my Career. I've lost almost 300 Games. 26 Times, I've been trusted to take the Game-winning Shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my Life. And that is why I succeed...
"It's not how hard you pushed along the Way, it's having something in you to finish...
"If you do the Work, you get rewarded; there are no Shortcuts in Life...
"Don't break when you're broken...
"Failure gave me Strength...
"Have the Courage to fail...
"No Game 7...
"Work before Glory...
"I have Faith..." - (His Airness) MICHAEL JORDAN

"Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated…" – CONFUCIUS (Chinese Philosopher)