All Quotes

"It’s important to utilise all skills and knowledge gained from different experiences to create a successful business."

"Media is not an easy industry. But when it’s done right, its impact is massive."

"Any company that is looking to expand to a new market has to learn to sell in those markets."

"Global expansion will make African tech companies more resilient, especially since they will be less reliant on the African market and less susceptible to its unreliability."

"What is going down in the investing space has not really hit the early-stage investments as hard yet it is still mostly later-stage investors that have slowed down. So, I think everybody should prepare for a tighter market fundraising, people should prepare for fundraising to become more difficult. If you have raised before the slowdown, use your capital well; stretch it as far as it can go to profitability and sustainability. And if you haven’t raised, you need to know that it’s going to be a lot more difficult."

"“The fusion of media and technology is reshaping how we communicate, share stories, and consume information.” Tomiwa Aladekomo at a tech summit speech."

"I have somewhere read that more men rust out than wear out; a piece of mechanism is more apt to get out of repair when not employed than when performing its accustomed labor."

"The spirit of religion and the love of neighbor impelled our forefathers to erect magnificent churches, schools, orphan asylums, hospitals, universities, and other like institutions, to give learned men and saints to the land. Within these institutions men were trained for the object of their existence, and while the Te Deum resounds within those time-honored walls, it is re-echoed by the saints above, who erected those buildings."

"I was first deputy director, then director. But in fact, that’s not at all what I wanted to do."

"I was never drawn to management. Since there aren’t enough executives, researchers in our countries are called on to take on various responsibilities."

"When there are only five or six prehistorians for all of Algeria, for example, there is everything to do at once."

"The Park’s headquarters had just been moved to Djanet, and the officials who had been running the Park did not want to go there."

"That’s how I accepted to be the Park’s director, a position that was far from easy."

"life was very difficult. We worked under extremely harsh conditions in a territory the size of a country."

"Without resources, no budget, no vehicles."

"Everything had to be done. As a result, the task and responsibility were enormous."

"My greatest joy was being out in the field all the time."

"From a manager’s perspective, because when you are responsible for a territory of 114,000 km², you have to be everywhere."

"There are regulations governing the park, the headquarters is in Djanet, and you have to go check whether the brigades are functioning."

"What problems they face, how tourist traffic is going, set up infrastructure ensure that it doesn’t disrupt the environment."

"I was shown the door! There’s nothing unusual about that ."

"How many victims of the system are there? I’m neither the first nor the last."

"When you are faced with certain situations, your conscience tells you to leave, that’s all."

"I’m nowhere."

"I really would have liked to stay in Djanet, in the Tassili, and then make the necessary trips for research, documentation."

"That wasn’t possible, so I’m a bit of a nomad."

"Here, I stay; there, I have a job, I try to make a living then I travel for the publication of a book, for its promotion."

"I leave again, because I have to take on a small job, wherever it may be, I go, even if it’s in Australia."

"And for me, these are essential points of reference."

"When I move away a little that is, when I’m in Paris I walk with my head up"

"I need to see the sky. Even if there’s no sun and it’s winter"

"The first thing I do is look up."

"It’s my way of returning to the desert. Because I know that this dose of sky will be beneficial for me throughout the day."

"If I pass through a park, I’ll stop."

"I’ll eat my sandwich in the cold, at 2 degrees."

"I need to see a tree, greenery around me."

"Every summer we manage to grow as a team and also individually."

"We stayed at their level for much of the time … we must fight for every ball."

"I wanted to be a ballerina, now I dream of an Olympic medal … I have great potential and I don’t feel pressure."

"Being the captain of the National team means having a lot of responsibility and being able to manage them … No regrets … we gave 100%."

"There is disappointment and regret for this loss … we must face the situation and reality without lowering our heads."

"“Se lei mi aiuta a capire cosa è successo nella sua famiglia, possiamo lavorare su di lei e su suo figlio. E operare per chi verrà e per chi c’è: le esperienze quotidiane psicologiche, nutritive, ambientali hanno conseguenze sulle reazioni chimiche che attivano o disattivano parte del nostro genoma.”"

"“Paura, emozione, senso di bellezza, gioia, stranezza”."

"“L’eredità è quella delle colpe che ricadono sui figli e sulle figlie … Maria non accetta questo e ci coinvolge nella propria inquietudine.”"

"Researchers spend a large part of their time objectifying others without ever questioning their own objectification."

"For how can one objectify others if one does not attempt to objectify one's own history, one's own subjectivity."

"Anthropology must therefore go beyond the divide between objectivism and subjectivism."

"Just as it must also go beyond the determinism of structures."

"Structures exist, of course; they are structured and structuring, of course, but they cannot make explicit all the behaviors and attitudes of social agents."

"Social agents cannot be a pure product of a single structural determinism without taking into account historical and political contingencies, emotions, and free will."