quotes about Microfinance

“You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong, and you don't have to cure cancer. You don't have to get rid of all those cells. Most people have cancer cells swirling around inside them all the time and mostly they don't do any harm, so what we want to do is prevent the cancer from gaining control. We just want to keep it in check for long enough that people die of something else.”

“I'm not talking about having to consult Julia Child before you can take a pot off the rack. I think that's something we can all do more and do better.”

“Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.”

Source : Alexandra Stoddard (1990). “Daring to be Yourself”, Doubleday Books

“A Dalit needs Jupiter's escape velocity to achieve success.”

“No matter how many media for the dissemination of news are created, there is one rule that should never be broken:TELLTHE PEOPLE!”

Source : 1961 Headlines all my Life, ch.18.

“This visit is meant to express my closeness to our brothers and sisters who endured the suffering, loss and devastation caused by Typhoon Yolanda.  Together with many people throughout the world, I have admired the heroic strength, faith and resilience demonstrated by so many Filipinos in the face of this natural disaster, and so many others.”

“What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that they look like life rather than movie stills. I don't want them to look fabricated.”

“There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.”

“Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.”

“I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.”