David Livingstone
David Livingstone
David Livingstonewas a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa, one of the most popular national heroes of late–19th-century in Victorian Britain. He had a mythical status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial and colonial expansion...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth19 March 1813
CityBlantyre, Scotland
I will go anywhere, as long as it be forward.
It's pretty standard for a new CEO to clean house,
These people make some pretty high dollars, and they're usually 50 to 55 years old. It's not easy to get a new job paying that kind of money.
This is still pretty new and I haven't seen retailer results. But if it was a really successful program, more retailers would open them and the larger players would open a lot more.
Now it's a good time to leave the company, ... The stock price is up, and the company has spent all its money on acquisitions. Marshall has built a little house of cards that is about to fall.
It's been busier than ever I guess they were having a going-out-of-business sale.
It is working with clients and changing that perception. I don't mind if market commentators have that view. It's the view that clients have that matters.
I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.
Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.
The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great. The effect of travel on a man whose heart is in the right place is that the mind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resources, there is greater presence of mind.
The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen.
Anywhere, provided it be forward-- farther still farther into the night.
It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.
In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!