Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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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.
