Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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George Orwell: Constant struggle
“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” —George Orwell.
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George Orwell: Take in a new idea
“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.” —George Orwell.
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George Orwell: Political language
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” —George Orwell.
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George Orwell: Preach and pray
“It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.” —George Orwell.
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George Orwell: Impudently twisting facts
“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.” —George Orwell.
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John C Maxwell: Bigger
“You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.” – John C. Maxwell.
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Maxim Gorky: Happiness
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” —Maxim Gorky.
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C J Box: Hunter
“AS A HUNTER I am looked down upon in Western society. I am portrayed as a brute. I am denigrated and spat upon, and thought of as a slow-witted anachronism, the dregs of a discredited culture. This happened quickly when one looks at human history. The skills I possess—the ability to track, hunt, kill, and…
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Madeleine Albright: Best book
“The best book, like the best speech, will do it all — make us laugh, think, cry and cheer — preferably in that order.” —Madeleine Albright.
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Winston Churchill: Not good enough
“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.” —Winston Churchill.
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Kevin J Anderson: Over the years
“Over the years, I’ve trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.” —Kevin J Anderson.
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Warren Buffett: Cookie-cutter approaches
“It’s absolutely imperative in our view, and I think we’re almost the only insurance company like this — certainly public — in the world that sends the absolutely unequivocal message to the people that are associated with us, that they will never be laid off because of lack of volume, and therefore, we don’t want…
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Cyrus Vance: Adversaries
“You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which its against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.” —Cyrus Vance.
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Delia Owens: Onus of forgiveness
“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?” —Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing.
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Simon Sinek: Right experience versus right person
“Weak companies hire the right experience to do the job. Strong companies hire the right person to join their team.” —Simon Sinek.
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Robert Frost: No tears
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.” —Robert Frost, poet (26 Mar 1874-1963).
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Keira Knightley: Genuine warmth
“I don’t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger, those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don’t think you can fake it.” —Keira Knightley.
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C S Lewis: Free to be good or bad
“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can’t. If a thing is free to be good it’s also free to be bad.” —C S Lewis.
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Simon Sinek: Bellyful
“What good is it having a belly if there’s no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Flannery O’Connor: Truth does not change
“Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” —Flannery O’Connor, writer (25 Mar 1925-1964).
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Dr. Dre: No matter how hard
“No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there’s someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.” —Dr. Dre.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Streetlight imaginations
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.” —Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Zelda Dvoretzky: Slavish obeisance
“There’s a danger in slavish obeisance: Too much homage can lead to complacence. Though they bow, genuflect, show you every respect, someday people will run out of patience.” —Zelda Dvoretzky.
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Theresa May: Poverty
“Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it’s about work.” —Theresa May.
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Kathy Griffin: Celebrity culture
“The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can’t seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it’s my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.” —Kathy Griffin.
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Gloria Steinem: Fish without a bicycle
“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” —Gloria Steinem.
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Florence Luscomb: Walking down a high-walled lane
“The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled lane with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and…
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Dan Rockwell: Make a small difference today
“Arrogance needs big wins. Humility is thankful to serve. Forget about reaching the final goal. Execute your best plan today. Make a small difference today, if you hope to make a big difference tomorrow.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Shatrughan Sinha: I am careful
“I am a one woman man, at a time. You either have to be good or be careful; I am careful.” —Shatrughan Sinha.
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Shatrughan Sinha: Power and glamour
“Actors turn to politics because they think movies have glamour but limited power but politics has power and unlimited glamour.” —Shatrughan Sinha.
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John C Maxwell: Act the part
“As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.” – John C. Maxwell.
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G K Chesterton: Nationalism
“Nationalism is the consciousness of nationality; and the consciousness of nationality comes from the constant consciousness of danger.” —G K Chesterton.
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Albert Camus: Happiness
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” – Albert Camus.
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George Gissing: Money is time
“Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.” —George Gissing.
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Carol Vorderman: Female presenters
“How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.” —Carol Vorderman.
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Uri Geller: Contraceptive coil
“I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.” —Uri Geller.
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Rachel Maddow: Feminism
“Feminism is itself a challenge. Feminism is a challenge to the way things are in the world. It is by definition an oppositional movement, because it’s trying to accomplish something. I’ve never felt like feminism was a consciousness raising effort in isolation. Everything about feminism is about getting something in the world to get better…
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Steve Young: Self improvement
“The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.” —Steve Young.
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Heather Sellers: Becoming a writer
“Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.” ~ Heather Sellers.
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Malcolm Muggeridge: Depravity
“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.” —Malcolm Muggeridge.
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G K Chesterton: False idealism
“There is now a false idealism of turning Government into God, by a vague notion that it gives everything to everybody.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Tradition
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.” —G K Chesterton.
