Month: Dec 2016
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Ari Zingerman: Beliefs
”Great organizations change their customers’ beliefs. Average organizations fulfill existing beliefs.” —Ari Zingerman.
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Jane Austen: The more you do
“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”—Jane Austen.
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XIV Dalai Lama: Real tragedy
“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways—either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.” —XIV Dalai Lama.
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Lawrence Summers: Main constraint
“The main constraint on the industrial world’s economy today is on the demand side rather than the supply side.” —Lawrence Summers.
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Gustave Eiffel: Jealous of the tower
”I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.” —Gustave Eiffel.
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Raj Kapoor: Orphan without his parents
”A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.” —Raj Kapoor.
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Euripides: When a good man is hurt
“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.” —Euripides,playwright.
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Helen Rowland: Sacrifices
“In older times, sacrifices were made at the altar — a practice that still continues.” —Helen Rowland.
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Harry S Truman: Leaders are readers
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” —Harry S Truman.
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Bob Dylan: Are my songs literature?
“If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I’d have the same odds as standing on the moon… Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, ‘Are my songs literature?’” —Bob Dylan.
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Ravi Shankar: Composer and performer
”In India, I have been called a ‘destroyer.’ But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as a composer. As a composer I have tried everything, even electronic music and avant-garde. But as a performer I am, believe me, getting more classical and more orthodox, jealously protecting the heritage that…
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Rajnikanth: Autobiography
”In an autobiography, I will have to write the truth, I should not hide anything. Just to avoid people’s feelings, I should not be hiding things. If I don’t present events as they happened, truthfully, it is not an autobiography at all. I have read Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography and if I can muster up the kind of courage…
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Sonakshi Sinha: Body shaming
“Body shaming is as bad as racism, discrimination and bullying. Society keeps telling us that it is good to look a certain way and anything other than that is bad or ugly. As women, we have been fed with images that convince us ‘thin is beautiful’. We don’t realise we all aren’t meant to look…
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Christina Hendricks: Capuccinos every day
“Back when I was modelling, the first time I went to Italy, I was having capuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous.” —Christina Hendricks.
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Oprah Winfrey: Stop colluding
“Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? This is a call to arms. A call to be gentle, to be forgiving, to be generous with yourself.” —Oprah Winfrey.
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Viswanathan Anand: Revenge
”If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.” —Viswanathan Anand.
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Fred Allen: Celebrity
“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well-known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.” —Fred Allen.
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John Glenn: Live-acy
”I‘m not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: ‘live-acy.’ I’m more interested in living.” —John Glenn.
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Ada Lovelace: Future use of analytics
”A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.” —-Ada Lovelace.
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Alfred Nobel: Large fund
“I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.” —Alfred Nobel.
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Ann Parchett: Disturb this world
“The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.” —Ann Patchett, writer (b. 2 Dec 1963).
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Sonia Gandhi: Find the resources
“An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.” —Sonia Gandhi.
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Maya Angelou: Facts and truth
“There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.” —Maya Angelou.
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Sinead O’connor: God and religion
”I think there’s a difference between God and religion.” —Sinead O’connor.
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Jonathan Swift: Round, shining things
”An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, “Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?” “Why,” said the jackdaw, “my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more…
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Noam Chomsky: System of debt
”Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can’t afford the time to think. “ —Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor and political activist (b. 7 Dec 1928).
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Cho Ramaswamy: Dialogue
”Dialogue is our forte. It must reach the audience. Even if it is antiquated, I’d like to retain it. I’ve never thought of ways to ruin success.” —Cho Ramaswamy.
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Noam Chomsky: Freedom of expression
”If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” —Noam Chomsky.
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Herman Hesse: Wisdom
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”—Hermann Hesse.
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Jayalithaa: Just because someone wants it that way
”MGR has been a great influence in my life, I don’t deny that. But now I am my own person. I have evolved. Hereafter, I am responsible only for myself. Never again will anybody influence me to such an extent that all my thoughts and actions and statements are influenced and made in a particular…
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Shekhar Kapur: Possessiveness and relationships
“I am not possessive at all. In every relationship I have had, the girl has left me. And the fundamental complaint has been that I am self-contained. I am just comfortable with myself and am always on an adventure.” —Shekhar Kapur.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Power based on love
“Power based on love is a thousand times more effective than one derived from fear of punishment.” —Mahatma Gandhi.
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Walt Disney: Started by a mouse
“I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.” —Walt Disney.
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Muhammad Ali: Truths
“Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – – – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – – – they all contain truths.” —Muhammad Ali.
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Devdutt Pattanaik: A good teacher
”A good teacher never answers questions. A good teacher asks questions, not to confuse or confound, but to nudge the student to find his or own answers, and take responsibility for what he/she discovers or invents. A good teacher presents paradigms that can facilitate the answer-finding quest. A good teacher questions the nature of the question…
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Buzz Aldrin: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
“For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.” —Buzz Aldrin.
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Sean O’Casey: Desperately unrehearsed
“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.” —Sean O’Casey.
