{"author":"Nana Awere Damoah","author_id":"Nana+Awere+Damoah","total_quotes":36,"quotes":[{"text":"Many of us are reactive, not proactive. We react. We hit back. We are ‘an eye for an eye’ practitioners. We attack when we are attacked, with good measure. Our barometer reads from the environment and makes us act accordingly. We are mirrors who reflect the anger in others, the bad attitude in the other person, the negative comments of others. Let me show you a higher level of living.","author":"Nana Awere Damoah","tags":["anger","life","living","self-control"],"id":4655,"author_id":"Nana+Awere+Damoah"},{"text":"The politicians will reduce effusions with gbeshie-inspired confidence on political platforms if there are no cheering crowds.","author":"Nana Awere Damoah","tags":["politicians"],"id":6807,"author_id":"Nana+Awere+Damoah"},{"text":"Young men and women are causing wealth loss to their generation because they are sitting on inert ideas, bottled-up potential energy and scratching the ground when they should be gliding the skies and perambulating with the stars. These people are so disillusioned they live life without any urgency.","author":"Nana Awere Damoah","tags":["africa","development","ideas","youth"],"id":20441,"author_id":"Nana+Awere+Damoah"},{"text":"It is more blessed to give than to receive”, the Bible advocates. When it comes to advice, I humbly submit that it is more blessed to avail yourself of it, utilise it, apply it yourself, before you give it. Put it to use first before suggesting it to someone else.","author":"Nana Awere Damoah","tags":["advice","words"],"id":29995,"author_id":"Nana+Awere+Damoah"},{"text":"This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality.","author":"Nana Awere Damoah","tags":["africa","death","funerals","traffic"],"id":46532,"author_id":"Nana+Awere+Damoah"},{"text":"We love to quote the saying “Rome was not built in a day” but we fail to remember that Rome was eventually built, and it must have been so magnificent that when people admired it, they were told that it didn’t happen in just a day. The question, then, is: if Rome was not built in a day, how was it built? Answer: It was built every day.","author":"Nana Awere Damoah","tags":["focus","nation-building"],"id":46972,"author_id":"Nana+Awere+Damoah"},{"text":"Nkrumah declared that we faced neither East nor West but we faced forward. But, see, we can face forward and just look at the horizon. Sometimes, as I think of Ghana, I am tempted to believe that we kept looking East and West and never made up our minds, so we just stood still.","author":"Nana Awere Damoah","tags":["africa","ghana"],"id":82369,"author_id":"Nana+Awere+Damoah"},{"text":"Collectively, as a people, we have to upgrade our standards and expectations of our political leaders and ourselves, hold them and our own selves accountable for the promises we make, and insist on specifics – projects, deadlines, processes, funds to be committed, and follow-up! Otherwise, we will continue to be dribbled and deceived, and nothing would get done.","author":"Nana Awere Damoah","tags":["expectations","politicians","promises"],"id":86621,"author_id":"Nana+Awere+Damoah"},{"text":"Our mental blocks are more formidable than the physical ones. Bob Marley said it when he asked us to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery. You first think what you become. The physical starts from the mental and the spiritual.","author":"Nana Awere Damoah","tags":["thinking"],"id":111651,"author_id":"Nana+Awere+Damoah"},{"text":"Don’t wait till you have grey hair before you believe people will take you seriously because scientifically, grey hair is a sign of old age and not necessarily of wisdom.","author":"Nana Awere Damoah","tags":["africa","ghana","inspiration","motivational","youth"],"id":111956,"author_id":"Nana+Awere+Damoah"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}