Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Pema Chödrön: Natural reaction
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.” — Pema Chödrön.
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Anne Lamott: Blessings in the desert
“If you don’t die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil…
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Leo Tolstoy: Wrong
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong just because the majority share it.” — Leo Tolstoy.
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Simon Sinek: Because of the people we meet
“Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Being nice
“When we’re nice to people, turns out, people are nice back. P.S. the opposite is also true.” —Simon Sinek.
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Tom Lehrer: Bad weather
“Bad weather always looks worse through a window.” —Tom Lehrer, singer-songwriter and mathematician (b. 9 Apr 1928).
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James Romm: Anger
‘My own favorite is summed up in the quote: “Do you want to be less angry? Be less aware.” Anger often starts from noticing too many subtleties of the way others interact with us. In many cases, we’d do better not to notice the slights and microaggressions that can drive us nuts if we let…
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Warren Buffett: Predicting
“In economics, it’s far easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I mean, you can see bubbles develop and things, but you do not know how big the bubble will get…. I’ve just never been successful at [predicting timing] nor do I try to do it.” –Warren Buffett.
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Jairam Ramesh: Governance
“There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.” —Jairam Ramesh.
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John C Maxwell: Reveals your spirit
“Life doesn’t do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.” ― John C. Maxwell.
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Simon Sinek: Progress
“If we think of everything we have to do, we feel overwhelmed. If we do the one thing we need to do, we make progress.” —Simon Sinek.
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Patricia Arquette: Strain
“Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn’t be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he’s the person I want to strain with.” —Patricia Arquette.
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Simon Sinek: Reality and dreams
“We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can’t see what we can see.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Humor
“Humor is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game. It is meant to remind us human beings that we have things about us as ungainly and ludicrous as the nose of the elephant or the neck of the…
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Gabriela Mistral: His name is today
“Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.” —Gabriela Mistral.
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Edward V Berard: Easier frozen
“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.” – Edward V Berard.
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John C Maxwell: Unimportance
“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.” – John C. Maxwell.
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Dan Rockwell: As others see them
“Leaders fail because they don’t see themselves as others see them.” —Dan Rockwell.
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G K Chesterton: Laugh
“No man has ever laughed at anything till he has laughed at himself.” —G K Chesterton.
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Satya Nadella: Equal work
“We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.” —Satya Nadella.
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Denise Richards: Negative consequences of institutionalization
“Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.” —Denise Richards.
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Jessica Simpson: Every tear should live its purpose
“Every tear should live its purpose. Don’t ever wipe the reason away.” —Jessica Simpson.
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Kiernan Shipka: Ghee is underrated
“Honestly, I think that ghee is underrated. I love using clarified butter. I think it makes vegetables taste so good, especially when you’re just cooking at home.” —Kiernan Shipka.
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Mick Jagger: Obsession
“People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish, but it’s understandable.” —Mick Jagger.
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Stephen A Smith: Standards
“You don’t have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.” —Stephen A. Smith.
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Warren Buffett: Agony
“We like buying businesses where we feel that there’s some untapped pricing power…. One of the questions we asked ourselves [when we bought See’s], and we thought the answer was obvious, was: if we raised the price 10 cents a pound, would sales fall off a cliff? And of course, the answer, in our view…
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Charlie Munger: Higher commodity prices
“It’s hard to know just which companies can pass through the increases in costs that come from higher commodity prices. And it’s also important to know.” —Charlie Munger.
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Seneca: Fortune
“No man has ever been so far advanced by Fortune that she did not threaten him as greatly as she had previously indulged him.” —Seneca.
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John C Maxwell: Concerned
“Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are making them feel good about you.” – John C. Maxwell.
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Simon Sinek: Say it out loud
“Your vision is only actionable if you say it out loud. If you keep it to yourself, it will remain a figment of your imagination.” —Simon Sinek.
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Verna Myers: Diversity and inclusion
“Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance.”-Verna Myers, author and speaker.
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Warren Buffett: ‘Swing, you bum’
“The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything–you can wait for your pitch. The problem when you are a money manager is that your fans keep yelling, ‘Swing, you bum!’” —Warren Buffett.
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Jeff Bezos: Flexibility and stubbornness
“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.” —Jeff Bezos.
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Bill Shorten: Better outcomes
“Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.” —Bill Shorten.
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Julian Assange: Start with the truth
“You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can’t lead to a good conclusion.” —Julian Assange.
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Gordon Ramsay: Looking for the next cow
“I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.” —Gordon Ramsay.
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Martin Luther King Jr: Extremists
“So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary’s hill three men were crucified. We must…
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Colin Powell: Pissing people off
“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.” —Colin Powell.
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John C Maxwell: Life
“Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – John C. Maxwell.
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Melinda Varian: Best programs
“The best programs are the ones written when the programmer is supposed to be working on something else.” – Melinda Varian.
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Simon Sinek: Curiosity
“Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there’s room for improvement.” —Simon Sinek.
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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Those who desire to rise in the world
“There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.” —Lady Marguerite Blessington, writer (4 Apr 1789-1849).
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Warren Buffett: Absent leverage
“Really, the only way a smart person that’s reasonably disciplined in how they look at investments can get in trouble is through leverage. I mean, if somebody else can pull the plug on you during the worst moment of some kind of general financial disaster, you go broke…. But absent leverage, and absent just kind…
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Robert Downey Jr: Be confident
“I’ve always felt that if you’re not on your side, why should anyone else be. So I always encourage people to be confident, and sometime even a little falsely so, just so you can give yourself an opportunity.” – Robert Downey Jr.
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Lori Loughlin: Little black mark
“When you don’t work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.” —Lori Loughlin.
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G K Chesterton: Problem and solution
“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.” —G K Chesterton.
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Bishop Joseph Butler: Probability
“But to us, probability is the very guide to life.” — Bishop Joseph Butler (1756).
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Dan Rockwell: Blind eye
“Never turn a blind eye to bad attitudes, strained relationships, and recurring dips in performance.” —Dan Rockwell.
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John C Maxwell: Right place for others
“A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.” ― John C. Maxwell.
