Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin: Dimmer reality
“We fear endings most. The end is where we visit a loved one’s bedside for the last time. After an ending, we accept a dimmer reality.” —Maurice Carlos Ruffin.
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Jane Austen: More social capital
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of little fortune, must be in want of more social capital.” — Jane Austen.
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James Branch Cabell: Best of all possible worlds
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.” —James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion.
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Karen Thompson Walker: Fewest words
“Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.” —Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles.
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Shane Parrish: Idiot over the short term
“So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look like an idiot over the short term.” —Shane Parrish.
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John C Maxwell: Everyone needs encouragement
“If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.” – John C. Maxwell.
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Samuel Beckett: We are not saints
“We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?” —Samuel Beckett.
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Pablo D’ors: Meditation
“Meditation is not difficult. The difficult thing is wanting to meditate.” —Pablo D’ors.
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G K Chesterton: Children’s games
‘The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children’s games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games which it is most attached is called, “Keep tomorrow dark,” and…
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Justin Meyer: Never build large apps
“The secret to building large apps is never build large apps. Break your applications into small pieces. Then, assemble those testable, bite-sized pieces into your big application.” – Justin Meyer.
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Henry Clay: Inimical to liberty
“All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.” —Henry Clay, statesman and orator (12 Apr 1777-1852).
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Bryan Magee: Real philosophy
“The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.” —Bryan Magee.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Study
“Study something old but not visibly useful (classics), something modern and useful (accounting, coding), never something new and not visibly useful.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Warren Buffett: Bigger-fool game
“Once you talk about something that’s an asset appreciation investment, ignoring the underlying economics of what you’re lending on, you’re really talking about the bigger-fool game. You’re saying…this is a silly price but there’ll be a bigger fool that comes along. And that actually can be a profitable game for a while. But it’s nothing…
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Charlie Munger: Easy lending on houses
“It’s obvious that the easy lending on houses causes more houses to be built and causes housing prices to be higher, probably, in the new field. Eventually, of course, if you construct enough of new anything, you can have a countervailing effect. If you build way too many houses, you’d eventually cause a price decline.”…
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E B White: No limit to complications
“There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.” — E. B. White.
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Daniel Dennett: Effect, not cause
“The mind is the effect, not the cause.” -Daniel Dennett, philosopher, writer, and professor.
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Paul Krugman: Simple does not mean stupid
“Simple doesn’t mean stupid. Thinking that it does, does.” —Paul Krugman.
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Simon Sinek: Giving
“Giving doesn’t mean that we don’t ask for help. Giving means that we ask for help so that we can better give to others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Theodore Rubin: Believe everything or doubt everything
“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.” —Theodore Rubin.
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Warren Buffett: Craziness
“The idea that you risk what you need and is important to you for something that you don’t need and it is unimportant, is just craziness.” –Warren Buffett.
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Seneca: Men learn as they teach
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach.” —Seneca.
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Vincent Gallo: Creeps
“I don’t trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere. Crippity crappity creepies.” —Vincent Gallo.
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G K Chesterton: Modern idolatry of humor
“The most pitiful of modern idolatries is the modern idolatry of humor — the philosophy which, in contempt of the image of God, would turn man into a philosophical hyena.” —G K Chesterton.
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Marcel Proust: Dream more
“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.” – Marcel Proust.
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Simon Sinek: Accountability
“Accountability is never to a number. Accountability is always to a person.” —Simon Sinek.
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William Hazlitt: Art of life
“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.” —William Hazlitt, essayist (10 Apr 1778-1830).
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George R R Martin: Be careful, my lady
“Oh, It’s truth you want? Be careful, my lady. Tyrion says that people often claim to hunger for the truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up.” —George R R Martin.
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Dalai Lama: Genuine love and compassion
“With genuine love and compassion, another person’s appearance or behaviour has no affect on your attitude.” ~ Dalai Lama.
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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.
