Quotes About Brain Drain

#1. So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

Olivia Wilde

#2. Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

John Dramani Mahama

#3. It's time to end the brain drain and move to brain gain. It's time for a great mind of Nigeria to return home. You're the mind we need, Doctor.

Deji Olukotun

#4. Theatre, film and television are all modes of storytelling, and many of us are fortunate enough to move freely among them without feeling that we've 'left' or need to 'go back' to one or the other. In fact, if the theatre is to avoid a brain drain, this kind of fluidity is increasingly necessary.

Theresa Rebeck

#5. I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

Ted Strickland

#6. I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#7. When an organization starts hemorrhaging talent, CEOs and boards of directors want to know why. If the boss gets blamed for the brain drain and is ultimately removed, it means relief for the employees still there and ex post facto vengeance for the former ones.

Jeffrey Kluger

#8. It's happening: Lou Dobbs' dream come true and Silicon Valley's worst nightmare. We're already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants take their U.S. educations and experience building companies and creating technology back to their home countries.

Sarah Lacy

#9. The brain drain from Africa has been reversed.

Mo Ibrahim

#10. Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain. The effect of each toxicant may seem small, but the combined damage on a population scale may be serious, especially because the brain power of the next generation is crucial to all of us.

Philippe Grandjean

#11. The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

#12. George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.

Adam Levine

#13. So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.

Bayard Taylor

#14. Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's gonna take a lot of brains in Russia to create a drain.

George W. Bush

#15. Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain
Quaintest thoughts - queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.

Edgar Allan Poe

#16. Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful.
Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled.

Michelle Moran

#17. hello my fellow americans

George W. Bush

#18. Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

Jim Courier

#19. He has a vision of the top of his neck, opening up into his head like a bathroom drain. Fragments of words are swirling down it, in a grey liquid he realizes is his dissolving brain.

Margaret Atwood

#20. I had yet to find out how little people want you to succeed in an extraordinary project, and what comfort some have that the negligible is upheld and all other greater efforts falls on its face.

Saul Bellow

#21. Make sure when you reach for the stars, you keep both feet firmly planted on the ground.

Charles F. Glassman

#22. Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

Samuel Richardson

#23. We are the New York Yankees

George Steinbrenner

#24. Complacency is a blight that saps energy, dulls attitudes, and causes a a drain in the brain. The first symptom is satisfaction with things as they are. The second is rejection of things it as they might be. "Good enough" becomes days today's watchword and tomorrow standard.

Alex And Brett Harris

#25. It is ironic that we are particular about flushing out all the dirt through the Drain,but we continue to retain a lot of it in our Brain.-RVM

R.v.m.

#26. Once told me this thing about brain chemistry, the nub of it being that when you're feeling good, you can't ever imagine feeling bad again. And when you're feeling bad, it's impossible to imagine a time when you won't be circling the drain.

James Patterson

#27. I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.

Bob Dylan