Sebitically Speaking Quotes

“We love to quote the saying “Rome was not built in a day” but we fail to remember that Rome was eventually built, and it must have been so magnificent that when people admired it, they were told that it didn’t happen in just a day. The question, then, is: if Rome was not built in a day, how was it built? Answer: It was built every day.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Sebitically Speaking

“Collectively, as a people, we have to upgrade our standards and expectations of our political leaders and ourselves, hold them and our own selves accountable for the promises we make, and insist on specifics – projects, deadlines, processes, funds to be committed, and follow-up! Otherwise, we will continue to be dribbled and deceived, and nothing would get done.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Sebitically Speaking

“What a man says when drunk, he thought about whilst sober.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Sebitically Speaking

“In Sikaman, deadlines are on wheels.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Sebitically Speaking

“Hope is a good breakfast but a bad dinner, it has been said, but in Ghana, we have deteriorated to the point of having hope as dessert after dinner. We don’t plan anything and the future just seems to happen to us, without our input. All we seem to do is to just show up.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Sebitically Speaking

“When all you know is how to use a hammer, you think hitting should solve every problem.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Sebitically Speaking

“A worker sent a form for salary advance to his manager who refused to sign it based on the reason given. The manager said the situation the worker had stated as an emergency wasn’t plausible.

The worker had written that he needed the money for a family emergency: his wife had given birth.

“It is not an emergency,” the boss insisted, “you had a nine-month notice.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Sebitically Speaking

“Ghana will not be built in a day. But it should be built every day and the body that houses the eyes reading this owns the hands that will ensure this.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Sebitically Speaking

“Even the ant reached its destination as long as it didn’t stop walking.”
― Nana Awere Damoah, Sebitically Speaking