Internal Resources Quotes

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And we we cease to grow, we begin to die.

It is not what you have on you, but what you have in you.

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

We're not saying people don't need fuel for strenuous work; they just don't need it constantly. People have many more resources at hand than they might think.

If we want teachers, doctors for the outback street cleaners and so on we shall have to find them amongst our own ranks.

You cannot import anything from outside your country regarding the future of your country.

I am not a practising Jew, and I am not embedded in Nigerian culture, but I have a sense of those things inside me, which is very handy for acting. There are a lot of things I can draw on.