"People are as healthy and confident as the……" — Ben Okri
"People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves."
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89 Quotes by Ben Okri
Ben Okri has 89 quotes on this site.
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a…
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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there…
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out…
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The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering…
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy:…
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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
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In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole…
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The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe,…
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I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their…
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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who…
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Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite…
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More Confident Quotes
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things,…
— Francis Bacon
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So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his…
— Christian Bale
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If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain…
— Ben Bernanke
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I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.
— Halle Berry
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As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.
— Russell Brand
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The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is…
— David Bowie
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To me, if you're trying to impress a girl, get a date, they're gonna like that more because you're a…
— Tom Brady
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No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing…
— Russell Brand
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The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is…
— Louise Brown
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I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.
— Lindsey Buckingham
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I'm taking my time. I feel much more confident, and every day I feel like I'm getting better.
— Miguel Cabrera
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My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
— Alastair Campbell
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