Quotes By Author: Ifeoluwa Egbetade

“I’m not addicted to the social networks. I only use them anytime I’ve got time for it…break time, brunch time, lunch time, party time, bedtime, anytime and every time.”

“I’ll rather believe in myself and fail in my originality than succeed as an intellectual copycat. I see such failure as a knockdown and not a knockout. It’s in me to equip my life with meaning and momentum.”

“You need to get out of your comfort zone to make connections with new ideas. If you don’t have that grit and resilience to embrace a growth mindset, you might never get a taste of what it feels like to be successful.”

“Having a fine relationship is good, but its absence doesn’t nullify your success in life. You shouldn’t be in it as a result of societal pressure, neither should you be ridiculed because you’re not in it. It’s an act of idiocy to place so much value on marital status when there are other better things to catch up with.”

“Education wouldn’t stop you from passing over opportunities repeatedly. You can be educated and still be poor. It’s only your ‘true intelligence’ that would make you face one single cause until you succeed. You have no idea of what’s gonna happen next, so you gotta open your eyes wide to see. Life is all about ‘improvisation’ and not those sacred certificates.”

“We’re part of a culture where everything is measured by money, fame and sex. It’s a religion.”

“All I feel is rubatosis whenever I see cancer patients who’re undergoing some forms of chemotherapy and have decided to shave their heads to avoid the potential mess of waking up someday to see a lock of hair on their pillows. I just hope they all get a second chance at life as life after a cancer diagnosis can still be meaningful and productive. Cancer is beatable, treatable and you can survive it!”

“I’ll define my success and create a definite path towards my envisaged future while using other successful people’s stories or experience as reference points (and not exact blueprints).”