27/07/2013
“A few phrases that have helped me a lot in life”
1. Work hard, play hard and PRAY hard!
2. Practice time management!
- Plan ahead!
- Do important things first!
- Write down your plans and goals!
3 Time is money: invest it, don’t spend it!
4 Do it now!
- Avoid procrastination, always remember life is short!
- Procrastination is a thief of time!
5 “Make hay while the sun shines!
- Opportunity once lost can never be regained.
6 Hurry slowly, hurry with care!
7 What cannot talk/speak should not be wiser than yourself!
- Garbage in garbage out!
8 Learn to think outside the box!
- Aim for the best!
- Use the internet, books, journals, magazines to study more than what your Professors/Lecturers have taught you.
9 There are no great people in this world only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet!
10 Each day you must choose the pain of discipline or the pain of regret!
Other Phrases
11 Be generous with your kind deeds and words!
12 Law of sowing and reaping is true in life, practice it!
13 Do not follow multitudes (the crowd) to do what is wrong!
- Take responsibility for your own action – Don’t blame others!
14 You can choose your wicked act or sin but you cannot choose the consequences of your actions!
15 Not all that glisters is gold!
16 Be content with what you have and don’t envy the rich (particularly those who have acquired their wealth illegally)
17 Never take anything for granted!
18 Honesty pays in the long run!
19 Be humble!
20 Take care of yourself, nobody will (as much as yourself)!
21 Let your yes be yes, and your no be no!
Deborah Ajakaiye (Prof)
(AGSC, May 10, 2013)
