Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Craig T Nelson: What I do, not who I am
“Sometimes you’re encouraged, and other times disappointed. Its a matter of going in and precluding all that with, This is what I do, not who I am. I need to be who I am in the process of doing what I do. I need to stay true to what it is I’m really here for.…
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William the Silent: One need not hope
“One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere.”—William the Silent,Dutch revolutionary.
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John C Maxwell: Compliments and praise
“People must have affirmation and praise in order to maintain a high level of performance. Withholding negative or critical comments is not nearly as important as giving positive input through compliments and praise.” ― John C. Maxwell.
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Simon Sinek: Empathize, then criticize
“We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what’s wrong before telling them they are wrong.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Three reasons it can
“The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won’t work or can’t happen, ask them to give three reasons it can.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Mistinguett: Kiss
“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point.” —Mistinguett, singer (3 Apr 1875-1956).
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Emile Zola: Fate of animals
“The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.” -Emile Zola (2 Apr 1840-1902).
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Marlon Brando: Feel too much
“The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel too much.” —Marlon Brando.
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Warren Buffett: Not very complicated
“If you’re picking associates, pick out those whose behavior is somewhat better than yours, and you’ll drift in that direction. And similarly if you hang out with a bad bunch, you’re very likely to find your own behavior worse over time. Like Charlie says, the trite advice which Ben Franklin was handing out a few…
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Emile Zola: Live out loud
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” —Emile Zola.
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John C Maxwell: Average and achieving people
“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.” – John C. Maxwell.
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Omari Hardwick: I’m a poet
“As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, ‘Yo, you should rap,’ and I was like, ‘No.’ You know, the label was tough for me. I’m a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.” —Omari Hardwick.
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C S Lewis: What we practise
“What we practise, not (save at rare intervals) what we preach, is usually our great contribution to the conversion of others.” —C S Lewis.
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Abraham Maslow: What one can be
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.” -Abraham Maslow, psychologist (1 Apr 1908-1970).
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Alberta Hunter: Blues
“Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.” —Alberta Hunter.
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Danielle Steel: Love is messy
“Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can’t avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works.” —Danielle Steel, Friends Forever.
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Dave Thomas: Shy code
“Write shy code – modules that don’t reveal anything unnecessary to other modules and that don’t rely on other modules’ implementations.” – Dave Thomas.
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C S Lewis: Temptation
“Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is…We never find out the strength of the impulse inside until we try to fight it.” —C S Lewis.
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Brian Tracy: In direct proportion
“Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you’ve done what you are expected to do.” — Brian Tracy.
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Ken Blanchard: Interest and commitment
“There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” — Ken Blanchard.
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Nikolai Gogol: Funny story
“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.” —Nikolai Gogol.
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Alex Michaelides: Love that doesn’t include honesty
“Remember, love that doesn’t include honesty doesn’t deserve to be called love.” —Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient.
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Thales: Thought and necessity
“Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.” —Thales.
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G K Chesterton: Not worth talking to
“If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.” —G K Chesterton.
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Norman Cousins: No loss of basic energy
“Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, (1st law of thermodynamics) so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.” ― Norman Cousins.
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Jill Dando: Very understanding
“Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.” —Jill Dando.
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Keith Flint: Meat
“When you’ve got people telling you to do this and that, you can feel like meat.” — Keith Flint.
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Agnes Varda: Tool of every self-portrait
“The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world.” —Agnes Varda.
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Malcolm Muggeridge: Suffering
“Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! The world would be the most ghastly place because everything that corrects the tendency of this unspeakable little creature, man, to feel over-important and over-pleased with himself would disappear.” —Malcolm Muggeridge.
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Vincent van Gogh: Good to love many things
“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” —Vincent van Gogh.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid: Intimacy
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is ‘you’re safe with me’- that’s intimacy.” —Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
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John C Maxwell: Stop leading your people
“When you stop loving your people, stop leading your people.” – John C. Maxwell.
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John C Maxwell: Make a difference
“I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.” ― John C. Maxwell.
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John C Maxwell: Make a difference
“I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.” ― John C. Maxwell.
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C S Lewis: Starved for meditation and true friendship
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.” —C S Lewis.
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Benjamin Franklin: Little chance
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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G K Chesterton: Catholic attitude to economics
“Communists are ready to recognize that the Catholic attitude to economics is fatal to their view, but they do not see…that Catholicism is also fatal to the capitalist attitude, and that Capitalism could never have arisen if the revolt against Catholicism had not first occurred.” —G K Chesterton.
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Christopher Lambert: Passionate and ready
“The most important thing is to be passionate and ready to accept the pains that sometimes go along with the business.” —Christopher Lambert.
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Malcolm Muggeridge: Because they want to
“People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.” —Malcolm Muggeridge.
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Grady Booch: In search of magic
“The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.” – Grady Booch.
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D L Moody: Easy to preach
“It is very easy to preach when others are all the time praying for you and sympathizing with you, instead of criticizing and find fault.” —D L Moody.
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Greg Iles: Wrong person
“Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.” —Greg Iles, The Footprints of God.
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Ilyo: Code like poetry
“Treat your code like poetry and take it to the edge of the bare minimum.” – ILYO.
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Noah Centineo: Own orbit
“My mom says we’re like the sun and the moon. Just because two forces are great doesn’t mean they belong together. The rhythm of the world is great because they are in their own orbit.” —Noah Centineo.
