Month: Dec 2016
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Cyril Cusack: New Year Resolution
”If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.” —Cyril Cusack.
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F Scott Fitzgerald: A drink
”First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Shah Rukh Khan: Social media
”We live in an age where we are over-informed. There’s a lot of noise – the TV guys think I’m five hours late, the newspaper guys feel they’re a day late – the emphasis is on putting news out there. Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not because it’s no skin off their back. But…
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Shah Rukh Khan: Don’t philosophise
”Don’t philosophise until you’re rich first. I used to be poor, and I can tell you there’s nothing romantic about it. When young people, friends, say they want to be great creative novelists, I advise them to be a copywriter first, make a little money. Don’t be a struggling artist; be a happy one.” —Shah…
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Paulo Coelho: 2017
“Before you step into 2017, cancel your subscriptions to other people’s dramas and negativity.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Sir Anthony Hopkins: Shakespeare
”I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.” —Sir Anthony Hopkins.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: God is in the details
”God is in the details.” —Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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Chetan Bhagat: Simple, homely girl
“Men still want a simple and homely girl. The moment they come to know that the woman earns more than them, they say ‘this will not do’.” —Chetan Bhagat.
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Debbie Reynolds: Utter filth
“I stopped making movies because I don’t like taking my clothes off. Maybe it’s realism, but in my opinion, it’s utter filth.” —Debbie Reynolds.
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Rudyard Kipling: Worst liars
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.” —Rudyard Kipling.
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Bob Hope: Charity
”If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” —Bob Hope.
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Charlie Munger: Sit on your ass
“If you buy something because it’s undervalued, then you have to think about selling it when it approaches your calculation of its intrinsic value. That’s hard. But if you buy a few great companies, then you can sit on your ass. That’s a good thing. We’re partial to putting out large amounts of money where…
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Margaret D Nadauld: For eternity
”We are each one on a road going toward home, but we’re not trying to get there for Christmas. We’re trying to get there for eternity. We want to arrive home safely to our loving Father in Heaven. He wants us to make it safely there, so He has sent a guiding light for us…
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Linus Torvalds: Intelligence
“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.” —Linus Torvalds.
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George Carlin: Jolly Santa
“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.” —George Carlin.
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Sarah Vowell: Pessimistic imagination
”I talk about going to his [George W. Bush’s] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, ’cause I was so afraid he was going to “wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water” … the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.” —Sarah Vowell, author and journalist (b. 27…
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Vera Rubin: Scientific progress
”Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.” —Vera Rubin.
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Salman Khan: Marriage
”I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn’t happen, and since then it has not been happening. It is jinxed, and I am very happy. I hope this jinx continues.” —Salman Khan.
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Caroline Kennedy: A lot of work
“It’s true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you’ll find you’ve created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.” —Caroline Kennedy.
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George Michael: Painful truth
”There’s no comfort in the truth, pain is all you’ll find.” —George Michael.
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Craig Kilborn:The day after Christmas
“The day after Christmas: when we all have two more ugly sweaters.” —Craig Kilborn.
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Mao Zedong: Exercise
”In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.” —Mao Zedong.
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Dale Evans: Love in action
”Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” —Dale Evans.
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Atal Behari Vajpayee: United Nations
”In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere. The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be. The UN’s unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose…
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Carrie Fisher: Fake affection
”You can’t find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.” —Carrie Fisher.
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Phil Ochs: True protest is beauty
”You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time the true protest is beauty.” —Phil Ochs, folksinger (19 Dec 1940-1976).
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St. Ignatius: Love and obedience
”It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.” —Saint Ignatius.
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Muriel Rukeyser: Stories, not atoms
”The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” — Muriel Rukeyser, poet and activist (15 Dec 1913-1980) .
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Carla Bruni: People from the past
“I don’t believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn’t give strength; it just gives loneliness.” —Carla Bruni.
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Paul Klee: Art
Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view. -Paul Klee, painter (18 Dec 1879-1940).
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Ralph Fiennes: Extremely well informed
”I don’t feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they’re extremely well informed.” —Ralph Fiennes.
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Margaret Mead: One of the oldest human needs
”One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.” — Margaret Mead, anthropologist (16 Dec 1901-1978).
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Benjamin Disraeli: First love
”The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.” —Benjamin Disraeli.
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Elizabeth Andrew: Volunteers
“Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.” —Elizabeth Andrew.
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Bill Walsh: Positive reinforcement
“People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way… you can make a point without being personal. Don’t insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less.” —Bill Walsh.
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Judah Pollack & Olivia Fox Cabane: Not in a vacuum
“Success rarely comes through solo efforts performed in a vacuum.” –—Judah Pollack and Olivia Fox Cabane.
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Leonid Brezhnev: Free elections
“The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.” —Leonid Brezhnev.
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T S Eliot: Harm
“Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.” —T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965).
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John Glenn: Not by the calendar
”You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you’re interests are and ambitions.” —John Glenn.
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Steven Spielberg: Different person, every single year
”All of us every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives.” —Steven Spielberg.
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Manasi Kirloskar: Huge emotion
“Each and every emotion, even fear, has a huge potential to drive us.” —Manasi Kirloskar.
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Pope Francis: Culture of leisure
”Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.” —Pope Francis.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Arrogant presumptions
“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.” —Friedrich Nietzsche.
Quite a Quote! 