“One negative thought is the first step to failure.”— Victoria Barnes Related Quotes “Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.”– Leon Trotsky “What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power’s viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead.”— Okey Ndibe “I understand by ‘freedom of spirit’ something quite definite – the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.”— Friedrich Nietzsche