All Quotes

"Right now, Nigeria is bleeding. Nigeria is wounded. Nigeria needs healing. That healing will come if every Nigerian agrees that there is a problem and that problem is surmountable and then we purpose in our hearts within our circle of influence to heal our land."

"I learnt that, indeed, hard work does pay. I worked hard, practised hard and was able to win laurels for my school. In my day job and all my endeavour, hard work and diligence have been my guiding principles."

"Education is the key that opens the door to endless opportunities. Better still, it is a nation that prioritises the education of its girl-children that will take its pride of place as a leader among nations."

"My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key."

"True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most people are aware of."

"My project looks both at the context of advanced countries with strong health systems as well as countries where their health systems aren’t as strong. My goal is that my findings will help advance learning, awareness, and advocacy around women’s leadership in health, especially in a time of crisis when effective leadership is needed most."

"The health workers on the frontlines – particularly the community-based workers, many of whom are women – are the backbone of all of these efforts. They operate under incredible circumstances to ensure that their communities have access to life-saving health services"

"The places that are likely to have variants or spikes in cases are also the same places where the systems to deal with them are also very weak."

"The blended learning approach helped children learn better and retain the knowledge more easily."

"I think we must be very intentional in focusing on women’s health. Women have borne the brunt of COVID-19 in terms of job loss, their overall wellbeing, gender-based violence, the unpaid care burden, and the list goes on. Women have suffered disproportionately from the pandemic. So, we need to be intentional in recognizing this and also taking action to reverse this situation."

"Another critical question is what type of leadership is needed to get through such an unprecedented crisis? New Zealand presents an effective leadership model not only through their rapid and aggressive response, but also a strong adaptive leadership in that complex intersection of politics, health and economics."

"Successful vaccination not only entails managing logistics of vaccine delivery, but also building widespread trust in vaccination, including among the health personnel prioritized for vaccination and tasked with providing the service."

"I’m a Nigerian-American, and I grew up for the first nine years of my life in Nigeria. I have seen firsthand what the impact of polio, measles, and all of that have on populations, specifically kids. To me, getting vaccines was something that had to do with social status and the economic capabilities of your parents to take you to the hospital way back then. But now, thanks to UNICEF and the United Nations, it’s made that so much easier to give children access to vaccinations."

"Through networking, training, and mentoring opportunities, we shall break barriers in male dominated business sectors, providing our female clients with access to larger volumes of growth capital."

"Having so many young people returning from Rubavu, particularly Busasamana, is one of the reasons why we are mobilizing the community, parents, and local authorities to prevent children from joining or crossing the border into the DR Congo without authorization."

"Avant de tuer les femmes, vous devez les violer ."

"People are now looking at concrete problems in mathematics and asking maybe some problems in mathematics that we don’t know how to answer fall into this category of questions that cannot be answered"

"Our results are the first-ever demonstration of a problem in concrete statistical machine learning that cannot be answered,” Professor Ben-David said. “As a corollary, we also proved that there cannot be any dimension that characterizes how hard it is to learn a general statistical problem, which is a big surprise to this community."

"When we worked on this paper, Shay Moran was just finishing his PhD. I met Shay and his supervisor, Amir Yehudayoff, at a workshop. We found that our expertise and interests matched so we collaborated to obtain this surprising interdisciplinary result."

"We were pioneers facing the wilderness...only for us, it was a human wilderness – growing from bigotry."

"The principle of ‘lift as we climb’ was instilled in me by my parents"

"I tell them, ‘let’s hear what your goal is, and let’s figure out how to get you there"

"We encourage students to have two plans: sports AND academics"

"…teaching kids to swim. A lot of poor kids, young people of color… they just never learn to swim. In the US, it’s a legacy of segregation, where Black people weren’t allowed in public pools, were prevented from going and swimming at many beaches, and so if that generation doesn’t learn to swim, they can’t teach their kids to swim and they maybe can’t afford swimming lessons or don’t prioritize it. I think that’s a really concrete one. And that has led to Black kids being at a much higher risk of drowning than white kids, because they just don’t have the opportunity to build those skills. That’s something that I think about a lot and is something that probably many people who are tuned in today could help with, and it would be really fun!”"

"… remember that because this work is so hard, because it is a lifetime of work, we can also pursue it in a way that is joyful."

"All is well that ends well."

"It’s important that we take care of the planet, it’s important that we take care for the next generation — even as an organization, as we work with a lot of children."

"It’s important that we upskill the African population — especially women and girls, who are mostly the vulnerable group — to have 21st-century skills, which are digital and technology knowledge, to be able to be competitive, get better jobs, and enrich their lives."

"Technology drives everything that we do, and it is important that women and girls are not left behind."

"For us as a social enterprise, we are big in bridging that gender gap in the digital and technology economy, which is changing everything around us."

"Some people take days to pick their company name, I tell entrepreneurs that they’re majoring in the minor. I say pick what you like and keep it moving, you can build a brand on it"

"He said it’s impossible, girls don’t build rockets and I’ll end up in the kitchen."

"I told myself I wasn’t going to try anything again, I’m a failure in life"

"The question is whether my body isn’t finished fighting. I don’t know what will happen going forward, but the more time passes the better chance I have of staying healthy."

"It’s part of my struggle to survive. Cancer made me want to find completely new ways to integrate data. I have the knowledge and integrative capabilities that not many have, and I want to take advantage of my strengths."

"Not just for Google, but for the State of Israel. I can’t stand having all my talents going to waste, although I’m not inventing anything new."

"I still feel a little bit like Cinderella, who feels like she’s here by mistake. I work with some of the smartest people in the world, but I don’t think I’m the smartest person in the room. Every time I do something, I think it’s just pure luck that makes me succeed"

"But I know that I have the ability to organize data. Maybe it’s related to my time spent as the Chief Scientist of Israel, or my ability to organize things, and coordinate research projects with State-approved budgets. When I volunteered at the Committee for National Infrastructure, I discovered that I can do many things that others can’t."

"For me, cancer became sort of a hobby, since dealing with it exposed me to a lot of medical information, and I became drawn to finding better ways to integrate that data."

"Whenever the mind of the artist suffers itself to be occupied, during its periods of creation, by any other predominant motive than the desire of beauty, the result is false in art."

"You can’t separate justice from environmental health and environmental protection anymore"

"It’s not unusual for young people to feel very connected to the future, and I was motivated like many of them are."

"First and foremost, it has protected the American people. It is literally a life saver. We estimate that it has prevented tens of thousands of premature deaths – each year. Along with lives saved, the Clean Air Act has reduced asthma attacks, heart disease, and numerous other health conditions Americans suffer from. I often think of my youngest son who has battled asthma his whole life. Without the Clean Air Act protecting the air around our home, around his school and around the places we have traveled, there is no telling how much more challenging his condition could have been for him and our family."

"It is not only about opening up new possibilities for women in the existing field of science. This is also about opening up the existing field of science to the new possibilities that women can bring."

"You’ll get knocked down many times and there’ll be tears, sweat and self doubt,but dust yourself and keep moving. That’s the go-getter spirit."

"Your network is your net-worth."

"Is a quote I hear a lot and I believe it’s true."

"My strategy for everything I’m passionate about is to invest in knowing 2 to 3 people more knowledgeable than me about my area of interest and purpose to learn from them."

"Humility is knowing that there’s always someone better than you at something and that there’s always someone who wants to learn from you."

"I invest in building a strong network of people I look up to and also build a similar network of people I can help mentor."